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Camelot revisited. (gaming).(Shrouded Isles)(Brief Article)

Computer Graphics World

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After setting the online gaming world ablaze more than a year ago with its massively multiplayer role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot ("Gaming for the Masses," March 2002, pg. 12), Mythic Entertainment is again poised to ignite players' interest by releasing Shrouded Isles, an expansion pack to its popular Internet-based game. Shrouded Isles extends the story and enhances the action of Dark Age of Camelot with new character classes, races, and continents, displayed with a revised NetImmerse graphics engine from NDL for maximizing the game's visual effects.

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Players will still choose a character from one of three "realms"--Arthurian legends, Norse Viking mythology, or Irish Celtic lore--whose enhanced textures bring a new level of realism to the players, monsters, and worlds. "We wanted the worlds to come alive for the players," says producer Matt Firor. "We wanted to make sure each was graphically diverse from the others with its own color scheme, player ...

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