Mask Of Eternity™

Genre: Action Adventure
Release date: Fall 1998
Format: PC CD-ROM
Web site: http://www.sierrastudios.com

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Roberta Williams' King's Quest series is the best-selling game series of all time, with over seven million copies sold worldwide. Each release in the series introduces revolutionary game technologies and features wonderfully immersive story-telling and opportunities for explorations.

It's only natural the eighth King's Quest installment pushes the series - and computer games as we know them - beyond the brink of traditional gaming. One look at The Mask of Eternity™ and one realizes that this is unlike any game before it.

The previous games' animated characters and 2D environments are gone, replaced with immersive 3D environments and characters that combine the reality of an action game, the open-ended sense of adventure and exploration that comes from within a 3D world and the captivating storytelling talents of Roberta Williams.

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity™ returns players to the Kingdom of Daventry, the majestic setting of the King's Quest series, where myths and legends are the stuff of daily life, and magic is both a ticket to survival and a passage to death. A destructive magical storm overtakes the kingdom of Daventry and turns its habitants, including King Graham, Queen Valanica and every farmer, merchant, scribe, smith, and handmaiden to stone. Assuming the role of Connor Mac Lyrr, a young resident of Daventry, players must muster their strength, bravery and aptitude and set out on the grandest quest of his life.

To unravel the spell that binds this land blighted by a mysterious sorcerer, and discover why he alone has been spared, Connor must undertake a quest of legendary proportions and recover the five scattered pieces of the ancient Mask of Eternity™, destroyed by an Achron's greed for power. But when all the heroes of the land sit silently encased in stone, this one young peasant, Connor, untutored in the arts of war, must become the warrior and hero that Daventry so desperately needs. This search will reveal the monumental importance of finding the world's most powerful, sacred object...the Mask of Eternity™, the key to the restoration of his land and inhabitants.

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Playing from either a first-person or third-person perspective, explorers travel through seven different lands experiencing over 70 characters, some good, most evil. Gamers guide Connor through Daventry, now a dark mystical land filled with stone inhabitants and dangerous Henchmen, goblins, spriggins and zombies. They venture through the Swampland, where the weeds whisper and the mummies caw; to the Gnome Underground, where players meet shop-keeping gnomes who mine tunnels and fight past bat mantas (half bat, half manta ray-looking creatures), and rock demons who -- as part of the earthen and rock walls -- pelt rocks at the players as they pass. The City of the Dead is the dwelling place of the Shadown Monster, a dark, amorphous creature with fiery eyes, sword and mace-wielding skeleton guards. Also in the City, there are Weeper souls with life-draining gazes and a mysterious, beautiful winged sylph guarding the Well of Respite and offering words of advice. Lava flows through The Barrens and pyro demons, fire ants and tunnel-dwelling submen threaten with fiery defenses. In the Frosty Mountains, players visit the inside of a volcano cone, where frost nymphs and Gryphs (avian-type creatures) dwell. The Temple is the ancient home of the mask and the land of the Archons, who now rest in marble slabs of death. Finally, the Realm of the Sun is a spiritual locale offering the promise of success as well as the threat of defeat at the hands of the Water Demon, Shadow Monster and Viscious Beast.

Mask of Eternity™ is based on Sierra's proprietary and very powerful ThreeSpace 3D game engine, developed by Sierra's Dynamix division. A flexible 3D tool that can be used to create first-person adventure games, flight simulators, and ground combat simulations, ThreeSpace 3D is used in six other Sierra titles, including Front Page Sports: Skiing, Red Baron II, X-Fighters and Earthsiege 3. ThreeSpace 3D offers stunning achievements in 3D technology, including: highly-optimized polygonal rendering, allowing for ultra-high detail and speed even without a 3D graphics accelerator; advanced physics modeling, creating realistic movement of characters and objects; seamless transitions from indoor to outdoor environments and between levels; advanced terrain modeling for extremely realistic topography; and support of graphics accelerator cards.

PRODUCT FEATURES

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
System Compatibility: IBM PC and compatibles
Hardware Requirements: Pentium 133, 2X CD ROM
O/S Requirements: Windows 95
Memory Requirements: 16 MB RAM
Monitor/Card Support: SVGA 640x480 @256 colors, 3D Cards supported
Sound Card Support: Windows compatible sound cards
Interface: Mouse, keyboard (support for joystick, gamepads)
Preferred (Optimal) System Pentium 200, 4x CD-ROM and 3D card

CONTACT:
Sierra Studios™
425-649-9800
email: StudiosPR@sierra.com