Gaming News - January 2003

New York, NY (January 9, 2003) - Codemasters today released details on the graphics engine driving their upcoming MMORPG, Dragon Empires.

From Codemasters:

Codemasters’ Dragon Empires will boast the most visually stunning world in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) to date thanks to innovative enhancements made to its already powerful graphics engine. New images released today reveal the stunning detail that Dragon Empires’ future inhabitants can expect from the game’s vast landscapes. The engine enables environments to be displayed with great terrain detail so that landscape features miles away will look natural. Dragon Empires is a MMORPG for the PC in which players are cast in a cast fantasy world of battling clans, sorcery and majestic dragons.

Lakes and seas reflect the colors of the sky, and sea states change depending on the weather, which adds to the realism of the game world. With precise detail in individual trees and bushes, the engine can determine how each one sways in the wind depending on the climate and the size of the tree.

As players explore the world’s different terrain types, the visuals of the varied environments blend seamlessly from one to the other, while additional detail of objects fade unnoticeably in to the scene.

Dragon Empires is scheduled to enter Beta Testing Q1 2003. To date, Codemasters has received Beta Test applications from more than 90,000 online gamers. With a maximum of 100,000 possible places, Codemasters recommends any remaining players who would like to be among the first to sample life in Dragon Empires sign up at www.codemasters.com/dragonempires/beta_form.php

Dragon Empires will launch in Q3 2003 for PC gamers as a boxed product with players subscribing on a monthly basis to play. More on Dragon Empires, including videos and a busy forum can be accessed from the game’s web site: www.codemasters.com/dragonempires

ABOUT DRAGON EMPIRES
Dragon Empires promises to be a groundbreaking MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The world will be filled with embattled clans, each striving to prove their superiority in head-to-head group combat, as they aim to take political and economic control of magnificent cities and, ultimately, empires. Dragon Empires is set in an age of sorcery, where magic is plentiful and the lives of humans and dragons intertwined. The world is made up of 100 lands spread over five empires, and is a world where player-to-player combat is always possible but its strongholds are guarded and policed by fiercely protective dragons.

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