The WolfQuest game will be released in a series of episodes. Each episode will be available for free download here on this Web site.
Both the single-player and multiplayer game will offer about a couple of hours of gameplay (or more, if you want to replay the same missions). Key features:
- Create your wolf avatar, selecting male or female, choosing from a range of realistic wolf coats (and customizing the coat with color tints), and configuring its
abilities (strength, speed, and stamina).
- Explore four square kilometers of alpine wilderness on the slopes of Amethyst Mountain in Yellowstone National Park, running across open meadows, through dense
fir forests, and along sheer cliffs.
- Hunt elk. Follow scent trails to locate elk herds, then sneak up on the herd, find the weakest one, and begin your attack. Pursue your prey and sap its strength
while dodging its counterattacks, to make the kill.
- Harrass coyotes who try to eat elk carcasses, or just for the fun of it.
- Chase and eat snowshoe hares.
- Earn Experience Points for bragging rights with other players.
Additional features of the single-player game:
- Follow scent trails to find stranger wolves. Communicate with them through wolf vocalizations and behaviors.
- Find a mate and establish a bond.
- Hunt and harass grizzly bears with your mate.
Additional features of multiplayer games:
- Form a pack with 2-5 players in private multiplayer sessions.
- Chat with other players with an in-game safe chat system, limited to common English words
- Work as a team to bring down a powerfull bull elk.
Future episodes of WolfQuest will be released periodically in 2008. Key features:
- Explore new areas of Yellowstone National Park, including the Lamar Valley in wintertime and denning grounds during springtime.
- Earn enough experience points and, with your mate, try to take down a bull elk without suffering a killing blow from its hooves.
- Establish a territory for your family pack through raised-leg urination marking, then defend it from other wolf packs through social challenges.
- Fight grizzly bears for control of elk carcasses.
- Find a safe den site and produce a litter of pups.
- Keep your pups healthy and well-fed until they can hunt for themselves.
- Venture away from your territory on risky missions to kill sheep on nearby ranchland.
- Once your pups are old enough, hunt as a pack!
Amethyst Mountain is in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park, overlooking the Lamar Valley (where wolves were first reintroduced to the park in
1996).
See it in Google Maps!
Mac OS X:
- OSX 10.3.9 or higher
- 1.5 GHz G4 or higher, any Intel processor
- 250 MB hard drive space
- Millions of colors
Minimum to run Fastest Graphics Quality Setting (Recommended for Good Quality Setting)
- 800x600 screen resolution (1024x768 recommended)
- 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
- Minimum graphics cards:
- Intel GMA 950 or higher integrated graphics (GMA 3000 may be marginal)
- NVIDIA GeForce 2
- ATI Radeon 9200
- NVIDIA GeForce 6 series or later
- ATI Radeon 9600 or later
- Recommended graphics cards:
- NVIDIA GeForce 6 series or later
- ATI Radeon 9600 or later
Windows:
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher (DirectX 9.0c or higher must be installed). Vista is supported but may exhibit video driver issues.
- 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or higher
- 235 MB hard drive space
- Millions of colors
Minimum to run Fastest Graphics Quality Setting (Recommended to run Good Quality Graphics Setting)
- 800x600 screen resolution (1024x768 recommended)
- 512 MB RAM Windows XP / 1 GB RAM Vista (1 GB RAM Windows XP / 2 GB RAM Vista recommended)
- Minimum Graphics Cards:
- Intel 865G integrated graphics or higher (may require driver update)
- NVIDIA GeForce 2
- ATI Radeon 7500
- Recommended graphics cards:
- NVIDIA GeForce 6 series or later
- ATI Radeon 9500 or later
NOTE: As with all video games, more powerful graphics cards and CPUs allow higher screen resolutions and/or quality settings. Older video cards and drivers
may exhibit rendering or performance issues.
Read the
Game FAQs for more information on specific issues.
