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If you're at all familiar with massively multiplayer role-playing games like Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, or EverQuest, you should already have heard of Mythic Entertainment's Dark Age of Camelot. Dark Age of Camelot will be a fantasy-themed role-playing game that'll let players enter a world at war as part of one of three sides in the conflict: the nature-loving Hibernians, the fierce Norse, and the Britons of Albion, the kingdom of the fallen King Arthur. The game itself will take place shortly after the demise of the legendary king.
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Midgard is based loosely on the ancient Scandinavia of traditional Nordic myth. It's a rocky, inhospitable realm of craggy mountains, secluded valleys, and ice-cold lakes, and like Albion, it's a vast land that consists of several huge areas that can be traversed without any sort of loading time or transitional pauses. The land itself has been colonized by a few of its more rugged tribes; the tall, fierce breed of humans known as the Norse; the stout dwarves; the swift and clever kobolds; and the hulking, granite-skinned trolls. Under different circumstances, each of these races would be just as likely to fight each other as join forces, since none bear allegiance to any but themselves and the Norse gods. But the once-united domain of Arthur has been divided, and the inhabitants of Midgard have come to terms with the fact that to compete with their Hibernian and British neighbors, they'll need to join forces and organize themselves into an army.
Fortunately, the inhabitants of Midgard are no strangers to a good fight, thanks to their harsh environment and warlike ways. While the British of Albion have proven to be more well rounded in terms of both magical abilities and swordplay, the inhabitants of Midgard will be the most focused on hand-to-hand combat. Even now, this focus is apparent in Midgard's currently implemented character classes. As with Albion and Hibernia, Midgard has four base character classes: a basic melee class, a basic thief class, a basic healer class, and a basic wizard class (the fighter, rogue, seer, and mystic, respectively). And like those in Albion, characters in each of these classes may change to a different, more advanced class once they've attained a sufficient level, but many of these advanced character classes display tendencies toward powerful combat abilities.
Mythic has already implemented most of Midgard's powerful character classes, including three of the four fighter classes: the warrior, berserker, and the thane (the fourth fighter class, the skald, will be implemented soon). Though none of the fighters of Midgard bother with the fancy and cumbersome two-handed swords and polearms that Albion's paladins and armsmen seem to favor, each is more than capable of holding his own in a fight. The warrior class is the most skilled in the use of weapons and shields, whereas the members of the berserker class specialize in fighting while wielding a weapon in each of their hands. The berserker class can also enter an ecstatic fury that lets it attack even more quickly and more fiercely than normal, increasing its already formidable ability to deal damage. Thanes are the wards of Thor, god of thunder, and can call forth lightning bolts to smite their enemies.
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- Mythic Entertainment
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- Release: Sep 1, 2001 »
- ESRB: Teen
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