MMO veteran loves this game!
User Rating: 9.5 | Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures PC
After years of MMOs AoC (Age of Conan) comes out as a very distinct, new game. It's combat system, graphics, and sound environments are beautiful, lush, and proportionately realistic. This game will force you to pay attention and not just hit the same spells/combat arts over and over in the same fashion every time but rather intuitively involves you to think. move, and out smart your enemy. Granted, this does have its downside. Because this combat system forces you to pay attention some may be turned off by this. Remember, the target audience for this game is specific and is taking a leap of faith in launching a MMO with an appealing combat engine. So far, the community has been very mature and helpful in game as well on the AoC forums.
Pros: Graphics are modern, realistic deaths and movement, sound, character customization, both single and multi player experience, voice acting, story immersion, movies, cut scenes, fatalities like mortal combat, leveling is fluid, no grinding (yet)
Cons: UI needs work, very linear (not like EQ where there are large open fields), trade skilling seems lacking, where's the economy?, individualistic looks via armor is to be desired (lower levels), no rag doll physics implemented, more variations in casting animations is to be desired,
I would highly recommend this game to anyone (over 18).
