I already posted some links to the screenshots showing the reskinned Midgard and Hibernia capital cities that will come with the Darkness Rising expansion, which is going to be released as a digital download priced at $19.99 ($29.99 bundles with “Catacombs”) in little more than a week (October 11), it seems.

The artwork is *impressive* and I congatulate myself again with this (or these) unnamed talent that Mythic hired (I really don’t believe this is the result of the same artists there worked on the game at release). Both the textures and the architecture (and lighting) of the environments top whatever has been seen in this genre, despite some design shortcomings.

Following here (press the “read more” link on the right) I’ll post some screenshots (from a Vault thread and slightly too dark) showing some of the new content. The Midgard king in particular is a masterpiece (while the boss mobs are a little too silly and “Doom” looking, despite I love the wings on the spider-fat guy).

I’m looking forward to take and show my own screenshots once the expansion is launched. I’m not in beta but the NDA will be lifted at the beginning of this new week, so there could be more infos to comment.