[1] The game consists of a series of 360º screens ala Zork Nemesis,[2] with live actors and photo realistic backgrounds.

[2] Their journey takes them to virtual reconstructions of historic locations such as Aya Sofya, Suleymaniye Mosque, and the Archaeological Museum.

[10] The team hired Turkish soap star actors to record lines for the game, despite many of them barely being able to speak English.

Sussman, vice president of Enterprise Studios, said: "the techniques and tools we've had to use to convert the Byzantine title from CD-ROM to DVD-ROM are all new.

In Germany, the game was distributed by Egmont Interactive GmbH, was re-dubbed into German by voice recording company Tonsynchron, and was released in 1998.

[22] Similarly, the Computer Game Developers Conference nominated Byzantine for its 1998 "Best Adventure/RPG" Spotlight Award, but this went ultimately to Final Fantasy VII.