Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures | List Price: $49.99
Discount Price: $19.97
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Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Brand: Eidos
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2008-05-20
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Features: - First Mature Rated MMORPG - Savage, bloody, violent and sexy; delivering the true essence of Robert E. Howard's original vision. Team up in battle formations and command others in epic multiplayer battles and massive sieges in real time.
- Player vs. Player and Player vs. Environment - Crush the skulls of other players in arena fights, drunken brawls and sieges. Build cities, craft unique artifacts, explore a fantastic world, befriend others and master the use of magic, steel or bows.
- True Conan Experience - Explore King Conan's amazing universe and roam in the brutal footsteps of the world's greatest fantasy hero. Battle terrifying demons and defeat devastating monsters known from 70 years of Conan lore.
- Conan's World - Enter a gigantic and savage world spread across the three nations of Aquilonia, Cimmeria and Stygia. Explore jungles, deserts, mountains, valleys, dungeons and cities.
- Advanced Technologies - Optimized for DirectX 10, Multi-core CPU and featuring Advanced Artificial Intelligence; AoC takes advantage of the Dream World, MMO Technology, delivering extremely detailed environments and real life physics. Works with DirectX 9.
Biggest grinder ever made. All the items look the same. Creative use of maybe a total of 20 total armor sets in marketing. [Posted on 2008-08-14]
The conent in this game literally runs out at points and you have to aimlessly grind mobs to level.
With dwindiling numbers on most all servers, finding groups for end zone quest lines is completely impossible. And the 1-80 levelling experience is absolutely dependant on these quests for experience points.
SO you end up having to repeat "villas" (can you say badge runs, only they start at low level, 5 tiny instances that all look the exact same, with boring goals such as "collect valuables in villa verde"). This will get you a 5th of a level every 6 hours on a timer.
OR you can mindless kill random mobs at 1000 experience each, for a total of 1.3 million to level, you do the math on the kills needed for that.
The armor is blatant false advertising.
Think world of warcraft, level 1-10 armor sets, with different stats at level 80.
TERRIBLE weapons and armor selection.
For former warcraft players, I will give you an idea of the games size, think elwyn, westfall, duskwood, redridge, felwood, and blasted lands.
Thats how small it is, about perhaps half of one wow continent.
They try to disguise this with lengthy zone in and zone out load screens.
Mounted travel, is around the same speed as running on foot.
Mounted combat, doesn't allow for use of abilities, only standard weapon swings, which are very weak attacks and meaningless in pvp, players regenerate health faster than normal swings take it away one must use combos to kill an opponent, and cannot on a mount.
Can't recommend this at all, boring, buggy and no rewards worth the play.
Not worth your time.... [Posted on 2008-08-18]
Maybe its me but all MMO's lately seem to be the exact same but this game is HORRIBLE! I was in the beta and was pretty excited about it honestly. I bought it when it came out and played it quite a bit. The crafting sucks, the social sucks, huge bugs(which is to be expected when something is released.) and the worst part....3 months after release the design crew has systematically destroyed this game. More things are broken now than at release. I was very disappointed. If you want something fun and solid with good crafting with hardly any bugs I would try LOTRO
crap [Posted on 2008-08-23]
No free 30 days without handing over credit card first, and they don't accept Discover. I'm not giving a company my ATM card that seems to think they can trick 14 bucks out of my pocket... what are they a porn site? Let people sign up, then force them to start playing on paying basis. Sorry, game looks great but crappy account management means I immediately uninstalled it, giving it to a friend. Maybe they'll give it a good review, this seriously pissed me off.
Excellent Foundation but Over Criticized. [Posted on 2008-09-01]
The game is actually quite nice if you don't rush through it and listen toe the flame fest. If you have a powerful system and can max out the graphics, it's amazing even on DX9. The DX10 video previews are also very impressive and due out soon.
Only good to look at! [Posted on 2008-09-02]
I was so excited about this game, but it has dissapointed me for the following reasons:
* The game was released when it wasn't even 70% ready
* Gameplay becomes boring after 1 month of playing
* Huge patches every week, one of the patches was 15.6 GB!!
* Very buggy and patches sometimes create more bugs!
* PvP is terrible, level 80 can attack level 5 without a warning!
* No customer service because staff are busty completing the game and making patches!
This game will die soon!
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