Sacred 2 Console Collector’s Editions Announced

Ascaron Entertainment and Deep Silver sent out a press release this afternoon announcing plans to release a Sacred 2 Collector’s Edition for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers.

SACRED 2 Fallen Angel: Collector’s Edition also available for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION®3

SACRED 2 Fallen Angel, the hit action-RPG from Ascaron and Deep Silver, will be released as a high-end Collector’s Edition alongside the standard box, with many exclusive extras for the both the Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3. SACRED 2 Fallen Angel has been available for PC since October 2008, and will soon be released on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION®3.

Exclusive additional contents
As well as a copy of SACRED 2, the Collector’s Edition includes an art book with numerous illustrations from the SACRED 2 universe, a seraphim miniature, and a double-sided 50×50 cm poster showing a map of the game’s setting – Ancaria. Furthermore, the collector’s edition contains a CD with the soundtrack of SACRED 2.

Sacred 2 Fallen Angel
SACRED 2 Fallen Angel is a vast, detailed and deeply playable Action RPG. Assuming one of 6 uniquely identifiable characters players will embark on a thrilling story across two intricate campaigns set on the paths of Light and Shadow. SACRED 2 Fallen Angel blends a seamless game world with solo and multiplayer gameplay, packed full of quests, character development, gritty adventure and deadly combat with hordes of deadly enemies.

Ancaria is a world without level boundaries, a world players can freely explore without any loading delays. With its huge attention to detail and high quality graphic style, SACRED 2 Fallen Angel will enchant players from all over the world.

Official game site: www.sacred2.com

About Deep Silver
Deep Silver develops and distributes interactive games for all platforms. The Deep Silver label means to captivate all computer and video gamers who enjoy and share a passion for thrilling gameplay in modern game worlds. Deep Silver works with its partners to achieve a maximum of success while maintaining the highest possible quality, always focusing on what the customer desires. Deep Silver products are designed to equally appeal to professionals and beginners, children and adults.

Deep Silver has published around 40 games since 2003, including the most successful adventure of 2006, Secret Files: Tunguska, the bestseller ANNO 1701 (co-published with Sunflowers), the challenging CrossworDS knowledge puzzle game, the horse simulation Horse Life DS, and the soccer MMO World of Soccer Online. Current developments include Warhammer® – Battle Marchâ„¢ (in cooperation with Namco Bandai), the action role-playing game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (in cooperation with Ascaron), S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, the sinister Chernobyl shooter for PC, and the new game from the Piranha Bytes team. Deep Silver’s own developing studio Deep Silver Vienna opened in 2007. For more information please visit www.deepsilver.com

Koch Media is a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products (software, games and movies on DVD). The company’s own sales activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, and it has formed strategic alliances with numerous software and games manufacturers: Ascaron, Braingame, D3P, G-Data, Gamelife, Kaspersky Lab, Lexware, Namco Bandai, Pinnacle, Square Enix, Sony Online Entertainment, System3, etc. Headquartered in Planegg near Munich/Germany, Koch Media owns publishing and distribution branches in Germany, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the USA. www.kochmedia.com

General information on ASCARON Entertainment GmbH:
Ascaron Entertainment GmbH is one of the pioneers in the development of computer games. It is also one of the leading developers of computer games in Germany and has been prominent in the sales charts for more than a decade with titles such as Patrician, ANSTOSS, Vermeer, Port Royale, DarkStar One and the original SACRED. Ascaron is headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany, and maintains an office in Potsdam, a development studio in Aachen, Germany, as well as an international department in Birmingham (UK). Currently, Ascaron markets its products in more than 34 countries.