Dark Age of Camelot Epic Edition

by VIVENDI UNIVERSAL PUBLISH

Product Features

• Complete Dark Age of Camelot collection, including all 6 expansion packs
• RPG based on Arthurian legends, Norse mythology, and Celtic lore
• New Frontiers adds more tactics and diversity to battles between Realms
• Expanded siege capabilities; updated graphics; all-new player tutorial
• Massive multi-player online gameplay in Realm vs. Realm combat

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AYH82Y
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 11, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,206 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Dark Age of Camelot Epic Edition gives you the ultimate chance to rule Camelot. Choose a faction and enter this mystical world with heroes, villains, and monsters straight out of myth and legend. New Frontiers adds more tactics and diversity to the battles between Realms, with strategic geography, more movement abilities, and expanded keep-building options. You'll also find revised and expanded siege capabilities. Darkness Falls is the ultimate threat to the Realms. Years of constant strife have taken their toll. Enter the service of your king and earn the right to be called Champion by facing total domination. Explore new zones, revisit altered lands, and bravely enter the darkest dungeons to defend your land.

The complete Dark Age of Camelot collection, featuring all six expansion packs. This is the only MMO that lets you face off against thousands of other players in Realm vs. Realm combat, the revolutionary advancement in PvP (player vs. player) gameplay. Features updated graphics, an all-new player tutorial, and includes one month of free play. A subscription fee is required.

Features:

• In the original Dark Age of Camelot, King Arthur has died and Camelot is ripe for conquest. Take over a faction and guide it to conquest, or defend it against invading barbarians.
• With Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis, you'll explore the ancient ruins of Atlantis and claim its magic for your own! Seek out the legendary underwater civilization for Hibernia, Midgard, or Albion. Lead a party from your land, across a perilous ocean, to face deadly trials--and claim the wonders of Atlantis.
• Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles gives you an all-new storyline with greater quests and more chances for glory! Go on all-new quests as you extend the original storyline. Six new character classes are here, along with incredible new weapons and armor are waiting to be discovered, as you fight for the Kingdoms!
• Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs introduces a new threat growing deep within the Earth. Powerful forces of evil have launched an attack upon the realms from below, revealing hordes of menacing creatures never before seen. New allies have emerged desperately seeking aid, for if their world falls, the surface will be next. Save your realm by venturing deep into the Catacombs!
• The Foundations expansions gives players and guilds the ability to own a home in a special housing region in each realm.

Product Description

The Complete Dark Age of Camelot Collection, featuring all six expansion packs. This is the only MMO that lets you face off against thousands of other players in Realm vs. Realm combat, the revolutionary advancement in PvP (player vs. player) gameplay. Features updated graphics, an all-new player tutorial, and includes one month of free play. A subscription fee is required.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very suprised..., July 26, 2006

By 

Laura L. Hammond "-Huvara-" (Detroit, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dark Age of Camelot Epic Edition (CD-ROM)

Anyone that has been looking at buying this game or trying it out... Now is your chance! This is the lowest I have ever seen this game / any of its expansions. Heres why:

First off the story: Dark age of camelot was very fun from the beginning and attracted many people because of its PVP that was liked by so many because you were fighting other "people" instead of monsters, so the bar of challenge and self-performance is greatly hiked. Then with its dungeons that offered good challenges and bosses at the end that required many people to beat, which usually resulted in making a friend or two. With the housing introduced, it was up to everyone to have the biggest and best house, the housing area soon became more populated than the game with people constantly upgrading and changing there housing to be better than their virtual neighbor. This quickly died down of course because of Mythics release of the Trials of Atlantis, which gave extremely hard challenges to higher level players to get very good items. Also introduced where Master Levels: Master levels go from 1 to 10 and are achieved by doing 10 medium to hard steps throughout 1 area of Atlantis, after all these are achieved and you kill the very hard "titan" or "mega boss" at the end of each level, you gain that level, and there fore, whatever abilites you choose at that time. Catacombs, so well done. Its graphics where better than some normal (not massively multiplayer online ones) games that strived for good graphics, they really... really... uped the bar. It also introduced tons of new content, that went
"underground" and gave tons of new experiences. Also the multiplayer was redone, so where parts of housing, which attracted more and more players new and old. Lastly DR, or Darkness Rising, gave even more graphics updates, and class changes. Probably the biggest class change where Champion Levels, which went from 1-5, these where done by comepleting hard-very hard quests for the king/ruler of your realm, (there are 3 realms, and each one has different classes and races that all meeet together and fight in the battlegrounds/PVP.) Each one had greater rewards, the end one gave you your champion weapon. You could choose from class expansion to healing spells, to spells to root your opponent. But the best introduction was the horse that could be rode anywhere and anytime, well besides the cities of course!

The original game came out quite awhile ago and offered good fun multiplayer experiences with well done customer support but not the greatest graphics. The multiplayer (PVP) was the first of its kind in DAoC.

The next expansion, shrounded isles came with a nice graphics upgrade (for its time) and a few more classes to play as, a new race for every realm to play as, more dungeons to explore, and a whole new continent of land to go on. This Also expanded the multiplayer content.

Next was a "download only" expansion pack that was free and introducing a upgraded player housing system, where players can have their own house, custom fit with what they like. Things such as statues on the front lawn, fountains, benches, bushes, most anything could be put out. On the inside, furniture, tapestries, hanging torches, and mounted weapons are a few.

After this the Trials of Atlantis expansion pack was released, this gave the game more races to play, (1 for each realm I believe) a greatly upgraded graphics engine, and 8 HUGE new underwater, (and above-water) areas to explore, each with "arifacts", or "arties" that were the best weapons/armor/items in the game. This also introduced master levels (see top) that let players go beyond the normal level of 50 and accomplish these very hard to complete "trials".

Next came catacombs, with a huge, huge graphics overhaul, sound overhaul, and class overhaul. This introduced 5 new classes to Dark Age of Camelot and a whole lot more. People started playing again because of the great graphics and amazingly increased PVP and multiplayer content.

Darkness Rising, which was also a download expansion, was for higher level players that wanted unique challenges and better armor/weapons. It also introduced horses, which could be bought depending on what champion level you where (see top) and went different speeds and varied in breed color, and size.

In the end this is my favorite MMORPG of all time, and I have played a few. If you have been looking at this for awhile, try it out! You dont have to listen to me, this is a very very low price for this wonderful game, the least you could do is try out the 30 day trial and spend 20$ for the game. Who Knows maybe you'll like it. Hopefully this review was helpful.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Both massive, and not, February 24, 2006

By 

ASH - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dark Age of Camelot Epic Edition (CD-ROM)

The game is great, there's a lot of specialization involved with both your character and your gear, there's plenty of new content and updates that have added interesting new twists.

However, its an older game. The populations are declining, so you won't find the same lvl of in-town fighting that you used to. To make up for this, there is the realm vs. realm combat, which throws massive numbers of players into a structured, seige-style combat environment. If you get in with a group that knows what its doing, it can be a lot of fun.

Upside: There's plenty to choose from when specializing your character and the world has a lot of cool stuff to explore.

Downside: If you are looking for smaller PvP battles (anything less than 20 people is small for this game) you aren't gonna find it here. (If you like really big fights, then you've got nothing to worry about).

For the price, its definately worth checking out. The more recent additions have really spiced this game up.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A lot more game now, January 3, 2007

By 

J. Bryant "gamer" (California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dark Age of Camelot Epic Edition (CD-ROM)

This edition has a lot of content - as much as Guild Wars. I enjoy it largely for the community however (massively multiplayer it definitely is), and am able to overlook the many bugs in the game, the paucity of CSRs to handle problems, and the seriously imbalanced RvR (I play on the Co-op server). The state of RvR may cause the game to go the way of the dinosaur however.