Dark Age Of Camelot Essay

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King Arthur is dead! Camelot survives on, but the hordes of Midgard, and the magical realm of Hibernia are looking to take the realms for themselves. Dark Age of Camelot saved Mythic Entertainment from bankruptcy. The game that redefined the massive multiplayer online role-playing game, mmorpg, genre was nearly never made. Mythic Entertainment went on to release seven expansions for Dark Age of Camelot; bringing new lands to explore, weapons, armor, character races, and classes into the game. After several years of neglect, it looked as if Dark Age of Camelot had reached its’ end. Mythic Entertainment had been bought, then gutted by Electronic Arts. With Dark Age of Camelot’s future in question Electronic Arts handed the game over to the newly formed Broadsword Online Games. The history of Dark Age of Camelot is more than just a history of an online computer game; it is a history of …show more content…

Catacombs added four new classes to the game, easier leveling, new lands to explore for each of the realms, and also brought a much needed graphics update. Earlier that same year Sony Online Entertainment launched the long awaited follow-up to Everquest, Everquest II. Also, Blizzard Entertainment launched World of Warcraft. Mythic used it’s wave of success, created by DAoC, to acquire the worldwide video game rights to Warhammer from Games Workshop in May of 2005 (Electronic Arts, 2006). On October 11, 2005 the expansion Darkness Rising was launched. Players could now own mounts, and once again were faced with having to quest, and defeat pve enemies to obtain a weapon that would have to be leveled the same as the Trials of Atlantis artifacts were. Darkness Rising also brought with it champion levels. Champion levels added five levels for the player character to gain. When a champion level is completed the player gains access to minor spells, or minor melee abilities from other classes. In June of 2006 EA announced that it had acquired

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