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Anarchy Online: Shadowlands Wrap Report

A city unlike any other in the entire galaxy, Jobe floats high in the air above the Anarchy Credits inhospitable surface of the planet Rubi-Ka. It was created by a rogue group of scientists who decided to leave their employment with the huge Omni-Tek Corporation in favor of a life of neutrality, and to construct a community where they could continue their advanced research free from outside control. It was only natural that this haven-like environment would nurture rapid progress, leading to numerous breakthroughs. Nanotechnology in particular flourished, enabling the discovery of a way to drill a dimensional hole, establishing a portal into a strange dimension filled with unusual lands, unfamiliar technology and the arcane knowledge of an ancient civilization. This mysterious area is the titular focus of developer and publisher Funcom's Anarchy Online: Shadowlands expansion pack released last fall. 

More than doubling the game's size, it adds Jobe along with more than 20 new areas, called playfields. These are grouped into seven environmentally distinctive themes, starting with the verdant locales of Nascence and progressing to Anarchy Credits ever darker and more dangerous ones with names like Elysium, Penumbra, Inferno and ultimately Pandemonium that comprise a journey of discovery for players. This doesn't sound like Rubi-Ka for the simple reason that it's not. Instead of expanding the original world, Funcom essentially built a second one, filling it with new professions, specialization options, creatures, music and more, then connecting the two via the aforementioned gateway. Our connection with the company afforded us the opportunity to learn a great deal about Shadowlands during development, and now, to ask Game Director Marius Enge and predecessor Gaute Godager for their thoughts after three months of play.

The Project
Marius Enge: Shadowlands is our expansion pack to the award-winning massively multiplayer online RPG, Anarchy Credits, often called AO, which is set in the far distant future, some 28 thousand years from now. It takes place on a planet called Rubi-Ka, which is, curiously, the center of all political bickering in the galaxy. Here, three different factions fight for control of the planet. The main reason is its manufacture of a base substance called Notum that can only be found there, and that is used in the production of Nano-Bots. It has been unknown so far why Notum was only found on Rubi-Ka.

 

[Source:Gamebuynow] [Author:Gamebuynow] [Date:10-09-10] [Hot:]
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