Magic, but are generally shunned by polite society. The Society makes a point of stopping Necromancers from completing their goals. The House Skelden and the Karga Clan are two competing factions in the northern reaches of the human half of the world. The Karga Clan are the former ruling house that was supplanted by the King and Council with the House Skelden. The player can choose to work with any faction to achieve specific goals in the main quest. As is typical for the genre, players generally earn reputation with a faction by completing appropriate quests. Multiplayer A multiplayer element is included, though it is not of the massively multiplayer online game type. Activities include horse racing, combat and quests. Single-player and multi-player characters are kept separate and not shared between modes. While the Xbox 360 version is limited to eight players, the PC version allows a significantly greater number. However, they must be grouped into parties of no more than eight. Using the multiplayer element in Two Worlds allows the user to change race; neither this nor the race of Elves are present in single player mode. Development and release The game was initially announced by the Polish developer Reality Pump as Polanie 3 or Knight Shift 2: Curse of Souls, a sequel to a real time strategy game Polanie II (Knight Shift), that eventually lost all of its RTS elements and morphed into a computer role-playing game. Two other versions of the game have been released. The Collector's Edition was released on 23 August 2007 in the United States. It features the game, two bonus cards with codes to unlock exclusive weapons, a bonus disc, map and a handbook. The Royal Edition was released in Europe for the PC and Xbox 360 on 7 September 2007. It comes with a T-shirt, marked with the Two Worlds logo, a deck of playing cards, a poster with the world map, letter opener (only available in the PC version) and a bonus disc. Two downloadable content packs were released. Tainted Blood was released on 13 March 2008 and Curse of Souls was released on 3 April 2008. The original game and the two expansions were packed together and sold as Two Worlds: Epic Edition. It was released on 19 August 2008 in North America and on 12 September 2008 in Europe. Since release, there have been numerous patches to improve the