Planetwide Games Launches "RYL: PATH OF THE EMPEROR" (Open Beta) Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
And also offer rare lifetime RYL Founders Guild Membership opportunity
February 4, 2005
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Planetwide Games | February 4, 2005 - Planetwide Games announced today a historic event of epic proportion, that after Seven Years of Development, the "RYL: Path of the Emperor" Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) went into Open Beta phase for North America. Planetwide Games will operate Open Beta for a limited time only until the Golden Launch date of March 1, 2005. "RYL: Path of the Emperor" currently has over 8.2 million online players worldwide. In 2003, 88 million people played online games worldwide and 198 million are expected to be playing online games by 2008.
RYL Founders Guild
North American "RYL: Path of the Emperor" online players who participate in the Open Beta only during the month of February have a rare and limited time opportunity to become a RYL Founders Guild Member. RYL Founders Guild Members will receive the chance of a lifetime to receive unique and special privileges when they choose from four different offer packages. Some benefits of becoming a RYL Founders Guild Member include locked-in, discounted "for life" subscription rates, MP3 Players, and additional months of game play for free.
Interested players for Open Beta can view a trailer of the game and download the "RYL: Path of the Emperor" game for Free at our home page http://www.RYL.net.
"RYL gamers can interact simultaneously with thousands of other players from around the world and participate in a life altering adventure together," said Kevin Donovan, President Planetwide Games. "RYL: Path of the Emperor is the first fantasy MMORPG to be comprised of true Player vs. Player and Guild vs. Guild action. No other video game has been able to provide definitive PVP gameplay or pure Guild vs. Guild battles. This next generation video game delivers all of this including a 100% realistic 3D persistent universe complete with ever changing weather/ environmental effects."
"RYL: Path of the Emperor" is a persistent universe or role-playing game (RPG). In the game, players assume the role of a Warrior, Cleric, Mage, and Assassin or choose from 20 classes and explore the many exotic locations within boundless miles of terrain and virtual real estate. In "RYL: Path of the Emperor" players meet other players in a diverse online global community where they complete specific quests and missions, fight monsters and other players, battle in Guild vs. Guild duels, buy, sell and trade virtual merchandise, build fortresses and even raise their own Dragon. Lastly, RYL players have the ultimate gaming reward to become the actual Emperor and Rule over the Land.
RYL players start off at Level 1, with minimal skills and abilities, but over time they gain experience points, through achievement, which allows them to advance to Level 2, and beyond. As players advance to each level they discover new and stronger skills which assist them in their ability to try and survive during all encompassing battles against powerful monsters.
Some of the many innovative features of "RYL: Path of the Emperor" include:
- True Player vs. Player (PVP) Action
- Guild vs. Guild Wars
- Customized Character Creation
- Become the Emperor and Rule the Land
- Hundreds of Quests
- Compelling and Intuitive Combat System
- Innovative, Customizable "Skill System"
- Upgradeable and Limitless Armor and Weapons System
- Build Fortresses
- Raise a Virtual Dragon for Battle
- Create Flying Siege Gliders
- Commandeer Battering Rams
- Persistent Universe
- Thousands of Miles of Terrain
- Virtual Real Estate Ownership
About Planetwide Games
Based in Costa Mesa, CA, Planetwide Games (a Bluetorch On-Line Games, Inc. company) is establishing itself as a provider of leading online video game entertainment. Planetwide Games also develops proprietary online technology and is building a worldwide network of affiliates to distribute their games. Visit http://www.RYL.net or http://www.PlanetwideGames.com.
To download this unique MMORPG "RYL: Path of the Emperor" please go to: http://ww.RYL.net
Press Contact: Rita Terpin at Terpin Communications
310-821-6100 x 104
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