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Manufacturer: Eidos
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Eidos
EAN: 0788687100670
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: 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.
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Eidos
Manufacturer: Eidos
Model: SAGECPUS00
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Eidos
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Studio: Eidos
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Features
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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.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The potential is there, but...
Comment: It's tough to sort through the various folks on both sides of the AOC fanboy vs. hater crowds, but here's my take after having played the first month and then quit. In a nutshell, AOC is like a St. Bernard puppy- it's probably going to grow up into something awesome, but right now it spends most of its time falling over and leaving messes on the carpet
The good
1) The graphics require serious horsepower, but they do look good. The general feel works well for the mythos- a bit dark and dreary
2) The sounds and music are well done
3) The classes and combat have some nice ideas behind them- directional healing, combo moves, active shielding, etc. Combat is not simple button mashing
4) The initial storyline in Tortage is very well fleshed out with the nighttime quests, decent voice acting and the rest.
5) Writing- the quest dialogs are generally nicely done and some of the quest lines are quite funny. (Check out the early "What happened to my friend" quest in Khemi)
The bad side of the game really comes in two parts: fixable and not-fixable.
Fixable
1) Bugs, bugs, bugs. Some of these are near game killing, such as the female avatar attack speed bug. Female melee characters have different and slower animations than the males do, so they do less damage. Funcom took over a month to even admit this was a real bug, and now a month and a half into the game admits it's going to take at least a month to fix. This isn't the only issue, but it's a good example of how the game was rushed out the door.
2) Incomplete. Want to be an alchemist? Good luck- a lot of the materials simply don't drop yet. Interested in how your stats affect your performance? Well, they don't, at least they didn't while I was playing. (May have been fixed in a recent patch) Virtually all of the nice voice acting on quests goes away once you leave Tortage.
3) Lacking content. Compared to other MMOs, there's a shocking lack of stuff to do. There's exactly one instanced group dungeon (Sanctum) by level 40- compare to something like WoW or LOTRO which has quite a few by this point, and Sanctum is quite small. By the mid-40s you've probably run out of quests and are reduced to grinding
4) Very, very easy. Quest targets and areas are marked out on the map already. Virtually everything can be soloed. The few epic mobs in instances require no strategy at all- simply run in and start hitting them. There is so little penalty for death that killing yourself so you can resurrect on the other side of a zone is the preferred method of travelling.
Non-fixable
1) Instancing. In retrospect, this is what really did it for me. Each area is a (rather small) instance that can only be accessed by a couple of travel points. Worse, there are multiple instances of each area that reduce the total population of the zone to 50-100 people max. This just kills the immersion- there's very little sense of a huge world that you can travel in or of crowds of people all playing together. When you want to group, you all need to run to a rez point and sync up so that you are in the same instance of the zone- you'll probably never see the people otherwise. Other MMOs simply "feel" epic in scope- Conan feels cramped. Even capital cities like Khemi feel somehow limited, especially since you know you can't really swim over to that island you can see in the distance- it's just scenery.
2) Crafting. The gathering portion of the crafting system is just horrible- a few, fixed resource nodes per zone that regenerate the resource slowly but have no indication at all of their status. There's nothing at all fun about running an entire zone to the four sandstone nodes and find that all of them have nothing in them. Worse, to level up gathering you have to get a "magic drop" of a rare resource which can often be impossible to find. Endlessly frustrating and not fun in any way.
I'll probably re-up in 5-6 months to see what's happened. There's a core of a really good game here, even with the instancing, but right now it's just not worth the monthly fee.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Atlest something that you can enjoy
Comment: This game is much better then any other MMO that ive ever played. Much more fun then PVP. This game is still in early stage and still need lot of work. I suggest waiting for a while to get this game. But in the end its fun and lots of new stuff.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Ready for Prime Time
Comment: A stable launch followed up with poorly thought-out and unbalanced content.
The devs push out two patches a week which break as many things as they fix.
A cycle of buffing and nerfing of classes, which generally range over two weeks.
Uncommunicative dev team which choose community managers who lie about upcoming changes.
This cake needs more time in the oven, might try again in 6 months.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Age of Conan
Comment: I found the game to carry the Conan theme really well, graphics are well done the running gets jerky at times and the updates can get screwed up.
Effects ( lightning and fire so far ) is really good, having the mob catch fire and screeming very authentic.
I'm still enjoying this game but I also have a lot invested in World of Warcraft so it remains my main game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Got great potiental but fell a little short
Comment: Great Graphics & Good Action!
Team Play on the other hand is... Okay. The Lack of Voip (Voice Over Internet) makes team play a little on the weak side. Some people don't like the zoning where you can have multiple instances of the same area which came it tough to find friends sometimes but I don't mind that so much. When your in a guild or clan you can make up for this with programs like TeamSpeak or Ventrillo.
Once you get past the initial low level areas there is a lot less Voiced RP content. I kinda felt let down when I got the level 20+ areas and there were no more voiced characters.
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