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After reading some of the reviews I felt this Expansion needed some explaining.
This Expansion is for ALL the realms within DAoC to enjoy not just the Albions as noted in a previous review. The reference to the name Catacombs just means that the game will now have Instanced Dungeons. This is something that was made popular with games like EverQuest. It just means that a group of people can have a undisturbed encounter in which just their group can participate in a dungeon adventure without another group stumbling into the encounter. The other reason to buy this and the most important is the character graphics upgrade. I feel it is the best look in the online games so far. To many times only the world is made to look realistic and the character suffers. Not here!! It will blow you away the detail made in a truly 3D rendering. So now not only does the world in DAoC look great due to the Trials of Atlantis expansion but now you can have a character thats looks like they fit in that world

(TWO THUMBS WAY UP!!!!)

Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) is, arguably, the best MMORPG currently available due to its unique focus on 'realm' (i.e., large-scale player v. player - PVP) combat. It *loosely* weaves Arthurian, Celtic and Viking lore into a world in which the three are always in conflict. However, in its effort to combine character development (i.e., largely player v. environment - PVE) with PVP, it has attracted a core of players who want nothing more than to have the game become a first-person shooter - ala Unreal Tournament.

While most players aren't big PVE fans, we can understand appreciate the importance of 'investing' some time and effort to develop a persona in a MMORPG environment to progress to an end-game goal, which includes defending your lands (by slaying 'invaders' played by other people). It makes good business sense if you're trying to keep a monthly subscriber base.

It's a shame that the featured responses are panning a very good game and giving you a warped sense of its merit based solely upon their selfish desire to turn DAoC into yet another mindless first-person shooter game.

ok 1 the graphics for characters is much better unlike i have seen in most other games. Most people (at first) were upset about ToA expansion because of the many bugs but most have been fixed and almost everything about the game in Realm v. Realm is based on player feedback that is how most of the stuff gets done. True there have been people interested in EQ2 WoW and FF when they were released mainly do to the fact of their names were already so popular from earlier versions. What makes DAoC different is that it has been one game for the past 3 years and only have expansions to that game so it has been out much longer meaning that so some may quit to play WoW they will return because there are going to be bugs and other stuff wrong with it when you have a MMORPG and this is not a stand-alone product you must have ToA installed and ToA has benefitted people tremendously so before you go on talking bad about it play the game and see what it's like for more than a week. And this is an expansion not to be confused with a dugeoun in Albion this creates an underworld for all three realms and grants one new class to Albion and two new classes to Midgard and Hibernia.