When did Asheron's Call come out?

Asheron's Call was released on 2 November 1999 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Asheron's Call (1999) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Asheron's Call

Asheron's Call (AC) is a fantasy MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) for Microsoft Windows-based PCs developed and published by Turbine Entertainment. Though it was developed by the Turbine…

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What Asheron's Call is

Asheron's Call is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Turbine and released in 1999. It was published by Microsoft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story for players began in Portal Year 10. Through the game's monthly updates the story unfolds. Not only do players experience the current events of the world, but as the months go on and they explore, they learn much about the past. Several monthly updates build upon each other, forming a story arc. Each story arc usually lasts around one year.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy.

How it was received

Asheron's Call holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Asheron's Call launched on 2 November 1999, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version and The Longest Journey. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, The Longest Journey.

Cheats and codes

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