Age of Conan: Unchained

Unfinished beta, but fun to play for a while.

User Rating: 7.5 | Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures PC

By sirkel28 | Review Date: June 3, 2008

Best part of this game is the melee combat is something different from the rest with faster pace and more violent, with more control over your weapon it seems. Then the next best thing, if your machine can handle it, are the environments and graphics, they are really cool to see.
Sad part is the game is clearly an unfinished product, which needed probably about another 3 to 6 months of development time. It's not bugs so much as many of the abilities and equipment stats are meaningless and useless, not balanced even close to what they should be. An example, a party buff that gives your party 0.6 damage increase, that is hardly useful at level 1, let alone level 20 at which it still hasn't been upgraded. Another ability heals my Conq. 1HP every few seconds in battle which probably ends up giving me about 4 or 5 HP at the end of a one vs one battle, when I have about 1000 HP this means nothing.
There is more of this type of unbalance with other classes, but this gives you the idea of how unfinished the game is.

Maybe worth $50 for a good month of fun play, but beyond that, $15 is questionable at this point until they finish the game.

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