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The fantasy RPG sequel Two Worlds II, released in parts of Europe in 2010 and finally released in the US earlier this year, has apparently been a success for its publisher Topware with sales of 2.5 million copies worldwide. Now Topware has announced plans to release an expansion pack for the game, Two Worlds II Pirates of the Flying Fortress.

The expansion will feature the player entering a, natch, pirate themed world. It will feature "dozens of new weapons, impact-oriented horse armor, totally new breeds, fresh boss opponents" and more. Look for the expansion pack, which will have new multiplayer maps as well, to be released this September.

While the PC port of the fantasy RPG Two Worlds II has been on sale for the past several weeks via digital download sites, the retail Royal Version of the game has been greatly delayed. Today the game's US co-publisher TopWare announced that limited quanities of the Royal Edition are now available at GameStop.

The $79.99 edition, which has both PC and Mac builds of the game, includes a number of extras including an art book, a Dragon Queen statuette, a deck of playing cards, a mouse pad, a map of the game's land as a poster, five codes for exclusive in-game items, and a bonus DVD with music tracks, trailers for the game and a special trial version of the upcoming game Battle Vs Chess.

The fantasy RPG sequel Two Worlds II has been released in parts of Europe for a while now but it will finally be released in the US soon. The game was originally set for release this week but today its co-publisher Topware announced it will finally be released in the US on February 4.

In the same press release, Topware announced that a limited Royal Edition of the game is now available for pre-order. The PC/Mac Royal Edition is apparently only accessible at Amazon.com where it shows only two copies are avaialble. The $79.99 Royal Edition includes the Reality Pump-developed game along with extras like a Dragon Queen statuette, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a double sided poster with a map of the game's fantasy world, an exclusive art book, playig cards and exclusive in-game weapons and items.

Two Worlds II, already released in parts of Europe last fall, is finally scheduled to show up for the US market in early February. In the first video developer diary released by its US publisher Southpeak Games, Scott Cromie, the creative director of the game's co-publisher TopWare Interactive talks about some of the game's new features compared to the original title.

Those features include the improved graphical engine which Cromie claims shows off the best visuals no matter which platform the game is made for. Players can also dismantle weapons in the game to upgrade equipment and the spell system can now be customized to make over 1 million potential spells available.

Download the Two Worlds II Developer Diary 1 trailer at Big Download

It was yet another busy day and capped off a very busy first full week of 2011. Oh, and the first big PC game of 2011 is due out next week (DC Universe Online). Geeze:

• Check out some really ShakyCam Diablo III gameplay footage taken at BlizzCon.
• Apple says that over 1 million downloads were registered on the Mac App Store on its first day earlier this week.
• Two Worlds II will now be released on February 4 in the UK; it's still set for a January 25 US release date.
• The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim language puzzle on the new Game Informer cover has been translated (spoilers).

While Two Worlds II has yet to be released here in the US, folks in Europe who have already bought the Reality Pump-developed fantasy RPG can now download files that will add native Mac support for people who purchased the Royal and Premium Edition of the game.

Owners of the game will have to put in the game's serial number and the included bonus code in order to download the Mac game files. The PC version must be in the PC's disk drive during the installation of the Mac files. The Mac retail version goes on sale on January 25 which is also the date that the game is released in the US.

Gallery: Two Worlds II

Earlier this fall, the fantasy RPG sequel Two Worlds II got a last minute delay here in the US to January 2011. Today the game's main publisher TopWare Interactive announced that the game from developer Reality Pump Studios now has a more specific January 25 release date for the US and UK.

Two Worlds II has already been released in other parts of Europe and today TopWare stated that the game has already sold one million units in its first three weeks of release. Southpeak Games will still be the game's distributor here in the US but TopWare will take over the game's release in the UK and Ireland.

[Via email press release]

Publisher Southpeak Interactive seems to know that the first Two Worlds game it released had its issues. So how does it deal with them? Why try to make a funny viral movie series out of it, of course. So for the upcoming sequel to the fantasy RPG, Two Worlds II, Southpeak is promoting it by making funny of both the game and one of its characters. Sordahon, as he tries to find a new life away from the game's setting (here's a hint: it doesn't go well).

The live action videos themselves have a couple of laughs, especially at the end of the second video which you can see after the jump, as the work placement woman ask Sordahon what's its like to kill people. We are curious as well.

While it perhaps didn't get a lot of solid critical notices, the fantasy RPG Two Worlds sold well enough for developer Reality Pump to commission a sequel. Today publisher Southpeak Interactive announced plans to release Two Worlds II on September 14 in the US. UK resident will get the game on September 17.

The press release announcing the release date touts the sequel's improved graphical features, using terms like "Real Eye Adaptation, HD Dynamic Motion Capture, and Multi-Source Dynamic Lighting." Of course we are curious as to how the actual gameplay has been changed for the better. We certainly hope that's the case.

So far Big Download has been looking at the action and first person shooter titles currently scheduled for a 2010 release. Today we take a gander at a number of RPG and MMO titles that are also scheduled for release sometime in the next year.

There's lots of MMO expansions due out next year including the latest one for the biggest MMO title around. But if you don't feel like playing online there's also plenty of other offline MMO games to choose from this year as well, and for once not all of them are fantasy based.

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