Like it's title character, Age of Conan is rough and unpolished... but very entertaining.

User Rating: 8.5 | Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures PC
By CatAtomic999 | Review Date:
To put it bluntly, this game has technical problems. There are plenty of bugs and some important features are currently unavailable. However, the game itself is engaging enough to keep a lot of people playing through the bugs and rapid patching process, so I suppose that's a kind of twisted compliment.

AoC's graphics are great (but demanding) by MMOPRG standards, the combat is fresh and brutal, and the music is some of the best I've ever heard in a game. The overall art direction is spot on, faithfully reproducing Robert Howard's barbaric Hyboria. The countryside is filled with impaled bodies, the combat is full of beheadings and sadistic finishing moves, and the blouses are full of oversized breasts.

It's Man Heaven, but it's not finished.

It's like Funcom is racing to craft some great oak furniture to compete with the IKEA crap that's cluttering the market... but right now it's covered in wood chips and they haven't started *thinking* about sanding it, much less polishing it.

So anyway, this game is far from perfect, and certainly not finished. It's also the most entertaining MMORPG I've played in a very long time.

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