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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy Used: £3.99
You Save: £31.00 (89%)
New (26) Used (12) from £3.99
Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 2278
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: role-playing-games
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5021290031609
ASIN: B0012PN1TE
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Discs went out the box only once for the first installation
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| Customer Reviews:
 AOC August 24, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
3 months into the game.
8 chars all around lvl 40,
Simply love it and i have played nearly all MMORPGs last 10 yrs.
Age of Conan October 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this game ages ago near to release and overall I was very impressed especially with the combat. MMOs normally have a once-click attack system and the number keys are abilities. However in AoC you have to do all the swining yourself and you can choose which side to attack. Plus the combos are amazing when you pull them off and get a gore filled finishing move.
The graphics are amazing for those with high end PCs, yes there were some pop ins and glitches but the gameplay was so much fun that I just ignored them and enjoyed myself. The quests aren't really anything new, the only different aspect is that the map marks out where you have to go. It takes away some of the exploring but it's a nice feature.
For the first 20 levels you will only have access to Tortage, a small city filled with corruption. This gives new players a good starting point as you can be killed by anyone. As to my knowledge you cannot turn off player-vs-player. The bad side to this is that people don't come up to you asking to form a group so much as wanting to kill you but it makes for a refreshing experience. The first 20 levels go by really fast, before you reach Tortage you could be level 5.
Overall the game is worth a look but if you want a more polished feel then check out World Of Warcraft (a good MMO starting point) or even the new Warhammer Online which is really easy to get into and is amazing for player-vs-player. Age of Conan is a good game and I would say it's worth the buy and by now there have been patches so the experience may be much better than the one I had a few months back. My advice would be to buy it near christmas when new players will be online.
Promising, but incomplete June 4, 2008
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
I've been playing since the start of open beta, through early access and now have a level 76 character on a pvp server, so I have experienced the majority of the available content.
There are things which I love about this game and there are things that I dislike immensely, let's start with the good. Characters and combat are really fun, the combo system works really well, and for spellcasters no need to stop and target, as long as you are facing an enemy your spells should select the target.
The graphics are very impressive, notably in the first 20 levels, White Sands Isle is particularly nice with sun bleached sand and rippling azure water. however later areas lack some of the polish of the early zones. A zone like Thunder River is still impressive, but seems visually to be a bit more rough around the edges. You are given a fair amount of choices when designing your character, and there are more sliders than you could shake a stick at, however a few more variations of skin tone and hair colour would have been nice. I also really like the design of the weapons and armour, they are stained, cut and dented. Even the lower level items look good on your character, I have a level 20 assassin who is wearing flip flops, how cool is that :D
There are three resource zones where the majority of gathered items can be collected by players, I actually found it fun expoloring these zones as quite often mobs of your level will spawn while you are collecting. This leads me on to what you are collecting for...
Guild Cities, this is what has kept me motivated to continue with the game, your guild collects resources and then starts building a city in an instance of one of the resource zones. So far my guild has managed to build most of the fist tier of buildings, you get a good degree of choice in where to place the different buildings, and it is always nice to see them being raised from the ground. When I say a city, I really do been it, these things are big, maybe 2/3 of one of the capitals from WoW.
The clases also seem very fun, I have been playing a Priest of Mitra, which I have found has some intersting and clever abilities and is a real pleasure to play. I have tried out most of the classes at lower levels and they all seem interesting. Also if you enjoy playing a healer type class you should really enjoy the three priest classes, they are all unique and can all also do a fair bit of damage, which is a nice change from other MMOs.
Sounds good so far? Be prepared here come the negatives...
There are alot of loading screens, each zone is a seperate area that has to be loaded, this sometimes gives me an impression that I am playing in a series of, admitedly large, room, rather than being part of a seamless world. I used to play World of Warcraft and looking back I really enjoyed the fact that you could travel the entire length of a continent without seeing a loading screen, Conan does not make me feel the same way.
There is not enough content in the game yet, meaning you will have to spend much of your time in the later levels grinding. To be fair to Funcom they have stated they know this is an issue and are adding additional quests in the next few weeks.
The big selling point of this game for me was the Siege Warfare, this has not been implemented yet alongside many of the end game raids and dungeons.
Ther are many bugs such as extremely long respawns on quest items, mounts going slower than a walking player, quests that cannot be completed, graphical glitches, crashes etc. Age of Conan definitely feels unfinished.
Personally I will take a break from the game and come back in a few months when hopefully some of these issues have been resolved, I do think it has the potential to be a great game, in a few months time.
This is not WOW, but not in a good way. May 31, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Level 1-20 is a feature-rich experience with full voice-acting and some cinematics for the quests. Then you're on your own and suddenly it's all just kill them/collect that. I've played for a couple of weeks now and made the point of not posting a review until I'd experienced everything the game had to offer.
But what the game can offer is currently pretty limited.
The combat is pretty annoying, even once you've figured it out. The combo system is okay but it's not a proper combo system, like Street Fighter, it's just a matter of hitting the right keys in order to activate an attack. So you have an attack but you can only use it if you hit some keys in the right order. The term combo seems misleading because people will assume something more fluid and dynamic than what there is. A typical combo involves hitting the key for the combo then waiting until the directional "menu" comes up. Then hit the first key in the sequence and wait for that to register, then hit the next key and so on. You don't pull off keyboard-battering sequences of moves, precisely timed for maximum devastation. In contrast you're actually playing a very slow game of Dance Dance Revolution.
Another issue currently with combat in Player vs Player is so-called "bunny hopping". This is the act of jumping around your opponent to avoid getting hit by confusing "facing". There's a dodge system in game which costs stamina whereas the bunny hopping doesn't. I suspect this is going to be one of the big things they need to fix to make combat look less ridiculous. Imagine how epic guild battles are going to look with forty warriors hacking at each other while apparently mounted on space-hoppers.
What there is in quests is slick enough but it's shallow. The end-game between 50 and 80 is lacking apparently, but not just to make it harder I'd guess. It looks like there's an entire continent of expansions just waiting to happen.
The early quests are story-driven but once you leave the starter town you're going to have a lot of quests that come down to killing X number of variations on the local baddies and perhaps additionally collecting Y number of trophies from them. This is just grinding with an XP pay-off once you finish the quest.
EDIT: I'm back with my views to level 50. I had two weeks left on my free 30 days so I started playing again and did get quite hooked on the 30-50 level zones.
I'm now using a Logitech G15 keyboard to take some of the irritation out of the combo system and that's working well. The majority of the quests are still of the kill X amount of that to progress but there are some quite entertaining quests in the Tarantia Nobles district, including a murder investigation that had a bit of a twist.
Unfortunately, despite a current semi-addiction to the game akin to a monkey hammering at a lever for peanuts, further play (and I'm now into the paying period of 10.50 per month (8.99 + VAT), or almost 60% more than it costs in the US) has highlighted other problems. I started another character and had to go through the same rich Tortage starter quests, complete with unskippable cut-scenes (EDIT2 - this isn't actually true, there's an interface option to make cut-scenes optional but the bulk of the quests are still the same. You can also turn off hints.) and helpful hints popping up left and right. Fortunately now I know what I'm doing I was out of Tortaga and level 20 within a day.
More seriously life for both my characters is now a social blur as my new friends message and mail me continuously. Unfortunately they're gold-spammers and very little seems to be done so far to contain them. I play on a role-play server and this is killing the mood for me. You can /ignore them but the names are changed every few hours and now they know who I am there's no way to stop the spam.
I've also tried crafting but it's as tedious and unrewarding as every other crafting system out there.
EDIT2: It's July now and we're into a new round of character nerfs. Basically there are a few over-powered classes (mainly the healing ones) and gradually they're having their powers trimmed back, but along with this they seem to be giving everyone a harder time, cutting damage potential and making mobs harder. It's pretty clear that maxing out your level in a couple of weeks and then having little or no endgame content has led to people leaving in droves so they want to slow that down. I'm still playing and still quite enjoying myself but I haven't maxed out a character in a MMO since Mist at Essex. They should at least open up the official forums so people can see what's really going on instead of reading magazine previews that only dealt with the first, admittedly excellent, 20 levels.
On the plus side I'm not getting anywhere near as much goldseller spam - rats abandoning a sinking ship I suspect.
You might need to buy a new PC May 29, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This game tries very hard NOT to be wow... but basically, its like someone took wow and tried to improve it in lots of ways and take it to another level. The graphics are much less cartoon-like and more visually impressive.
Don't kid yourself though, I didn't even look at the tech specs on this game because I run every game I buy on medium to medium high settings... BUT YOU SHOULD!! I;ve tried every fix suggested (lowering graphics to utterly low, reloading all my drivers etc) and the best I can get is 10-14 fps. That means that with a pretty decent pc (top end 18 months ago) this game barely runs on graphics setting set so low I cant even see a npc unless Im within 20feet.
In conclusion... unless the graphics issues are caused by something patchable... its not worth buying this game unless you have a very high-end pc or you want to buy a new pc just to play this.
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