Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings, the sequel to the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game Asheron's Call, will launch in the UK on the 6th December, 2002. Asheron's Call 2 will be available for an estimated street price of £29.99 including one months free game play, and thereafter £8.45 per month subscription fee. The dynamic world of Dereth has been reborn, and players who first set foot on its soil will find a drastically different version of the world that they were used to in Asheron's Call. The denizens of Dereth have fled into shelters, and the land has become twisted under dark waves of chaos for hundreds of years. After generations of hiding in fear, the three civilized races - the Humans, the Tumeroks, and the Lugians - forge an alliance, setting aside their past enmity to work side by side. All of the races will strive to reclaim their ancestral lands from the evil that has flourished in the ruins left by the Devastation. Together they will rebuild the world, and face an uncertain future. Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings advances the MMORPG genre with the Turbine Engine G2, providing some of the most sophisticated graphics available on a PC. Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings features a dynamic, evolving fantasy world that reacts to players' behaviour and actions. Developed by Turbine Entertainment Software Corp., the game includes features such as a revamped combat system and new in-depth crafting system that gives players a chance to pursue non-combative skills. Microsoft Game Studios and Turbine are dedicated to building, changing and enhancing the Asheron's Call 2 online environment to offer players a compelling experience month after month. New monthly episodes will feature an evolving, epic storyline, introduction of new features like dungeons, quests and monsters, and environments that change in response to player behaviour. For the first time, Asheron's Call 2 players in France, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands will be able to play on dedicated European servers that will offer optimized performance and a robust game play experience. This will also enable players to select among French, German and English languages.