Several enhancements to Mythic Entertainment's Dark Age of Camelot, including streamlining the role-playing system and integrating its elements into a more attractive graphics engine, have propelled it to a subscriber base of more than 200,000 players. Even though game play can be repetitive, Dark Age of Camelot is easy to get into and just plain fun, thanks to an easy-to-use chat engine and a well-developed quest system.

This game isn't merely a more refined EverQuest clone, however. Dark Age of Camelot divides players into three competing realms: the Celtic-style Hibernia, Arthurian Albion, and Midgard, from Norse mythology. At various chokepoints (or neutral zones), players from the three realms fight against one another for domination of various artifacts that bestow benefits on an entire realm. RvR (realm-versus-realm) combat adds another level to the game play that lower-level characters can enjoy, giving even brand-new players a sense of purpose that they may not find in the larger games.