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Horizons: Empire of Istaria Fact Sheet - PC

28th August 2003, 10:52am
Platforms: PC
Global Release Date: Fall 2003
Developer: Artifact Entertainment
Publisher: Atari
Additional Information: www.istaria.com

Product Description:
Artifact Entertainment's Horizons: Empire of Istaria is one of the most closely-followed and highly-anticipated massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) in years. Currently in development for the PC, Horizons will allow players to experience online gaming like never before in a single massive online world primed for exploration, brimming with adventure and rife with danger.

Horizons takes place within the world of Istaria - filled with cities and towns, castles and strongholds, villages and mystical structures, in environments ranging from tropical jungle and arctic tundra to windswept plains and mountainous wilderness. Whether adventuring by themselves or questing with a group of friends, players are free to choose their own path and encouraged to create their own stories. Fierce warriors, arcane spell casters and challenging combat will rule the frontier lands, but skilled craftspeople will play an absolutely critical role in overall character and world development.

Horizons will be available for PC CD-ROM Fall 2003. Additional information about Horizons can be found online at www.istaria.com, which features Istaria history and lore, character race and skill information, downloadable and streaming game play movies, screenshots and much more.

Game Features:

  • Nine playable character races will be available when Horizons launches this Fall; Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Fiends and yes -- Dragons are among them.


  • Each player character can be further customized with a near endless variety of visual tweaks, including gender, ethnicity, age, skin color, body and facial types, hair styles and color as well as wings, horns and other exotic alterations associated with select species.


  • In Horizons, players will be able to select from a number of base adventuring schools such as, Warrior, Healer, Wizard and Scout as well as base crafting schools, including Blacksmith, Gatherer, Outfitter and Scholar.


  • Guilds and player communities have become the lifeblood of today's MMORPG and Horizons will revolutionize support for these critical game play elements with a number of new and innovative features as well as refined and improved approaches.


  • Friends and guild mates can cooperate to build frontier towns, bustling merchant communities or even mighty defensive castles along the borderlands.
    • by Matt Robertson