Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
by Eidos Interactive
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Product Summary
Brand: EidosFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: SAGECPUS00
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Product features:
- 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.
- Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames Official Strategy Guides)
- Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset
- PC Gamer (1-year)
- Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures 60-Day Time Card
Video Game Reviews of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Customer Review: worst MMO ever inflicted upon the world.
Summary: 1 Stars
i don't understand how ANYONE could give this boring, meaningless,
linear nightmare more than one star.
and stupidity alone doesn't explain why some people can.
each mob requires your undivided attention.
each attack requires your undivided attention.
combat consists of running up to a mob,
pressing a button, while hoping that your mouse pointer icon doesn't move off of the attack button.
and hoping that the mob doesn't move move out of attack range (3 feet), without you noticing.
that is right. age of conan turns the player into a living auto-attack feature !
and has the euro-insolence to call that combat.
it is impossible to meaningfully group with others.
all you are doing together, is spamming your attack buttons together.
while your avatars happen to be standing next to each other.
with your fingers and attentions too pre-occupied, to even focus on each other.
let alone actually communicate with each other.
not that most people i met weren't either silent lurkers,
or utter jerks, anyway.
but even if you "could" group together in a meaningful away,
despite the lame-brained combat and the utter lack of effort-stacking with others,
than age of conan is still a solo quest grinder anyway.
because of how difficult it is to contact others, and get them all in the same DISTANT (!!!) instanced mission, at the same time.
and even if all of you were there, than good luck having any time or focus left to chat, as you grind your fingers to the knuckles pressing the attack button.
there are many more utterly unforgivable crimes, that have been shamelessly committed, by this pretentious, euro-ego-garbage game.
but i've already given several hundred times more time and effort,
than this game deserves to have chiseled on its tomb stone.
if you like this game, than do the gene pool a favor, and commit suicide.
because we don't need you or your offspring consuming scarce resources,
that someone with a functioning brain could be consuming instead.
i'm serious.
you don't need to exist.
remove yourself from life.
you are a burden to the well being of everyone else, and self-removal will be your greatest and only meaningful contribution.
Description of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Based on the events and characters of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a fantasy themed massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that immerses players in a dark, expansive universe filled with ground-breaking brutal combat, dangerously intoxicating magical abilities, and the social and cooperative game features that MMORPG players crave. |
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One of the most highly anticipated MMORPGs in recent years due to the strength and familiarity of the Conan franchise across a variety of major media, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is the first of several releases planned for the franchise, all of which are aimed at an adult audience. Firmly rooted in the savage, bloody, violent and sexy Hyborian universe, players can expect a graphically beautiful game blended with gritty gameplay that is true to both the barbarian hero from Howard's writings and the Schwarzenegger influenced version from books, movies and comics.Available Cultures and Classes
Although Age of Conan contains a wide range of peoples, its playable cultures are currently limited to Aquilonians, Cimmerians, and Stygians. Within each of these players can choose from a selection of archetypal character classes, although available classes and subsequent subclasses are not necessarily the same within each culture. For example, archetypal classes for Aquilonians and Cimmerians are Rogue, Priest and Soldier, while Stygians are represented by Rogue, Priest and Mage. Further differences exist within subclasses for each. See the basic breakdown of all three cultures below:Aquilonians: Internally divided, but united against their barbarian neighbors, the Aquilonians live lives on the edge. Their kingdom, with its prosperous cities, enlightened culture and religious freedom, is known as the "Flower of the West." Yet for all this and despite the power of King, Conan I, it is a land where culture clashes and unrest are always a threat.Cimmerians: As the Hyborian Age comes to an end the northern barbarian clans of the Cimmerians know that the end of their time is drawing near too. King Conan I of Aquilonia is himself a Cimmerian, though not typical of his people. Although his life has been filled with wanderlust, his Kin care nothing for what occurs outside their clan territories.Stygians: Masters of the magical arts and ruled by their consuming worship of the serpent-god Set, the Stygians excel at occult and diabolic lore. They learned long ago that true power lies in knowledge and in pacts with dark powers. This single-mindedness has allowed them become the only culture to harness the secrets of the Mage class and power that comes with it.Modes Singleplayer as well as Multiplayer
Unlike most MMORPGs, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures includes a significant singleplayer experience as well as deep overarching multiplayer gameplay. This is an atypical MMORPG feature, but one that has a purpose. Players enter the game as a lowly galley slave with no memory of his/her past, and over the first five to 20 levels of singleplayer action build the skills necessary to survive in the game's multiplayer levels. During this time you will traverse a variety of rich environments including jungles, deserts, mountains, valleys, dungeons and cities packed with NPCs, beasts and monsters, before eventually leveling up and moving back to your chosen culture's homeland. Because the only character-related choices that players have to make at the game's opening are their looks, clothing and culture, this singleplayer mode is important in deciding what class and subclass to pursue and thus the level of impact your character will have in greater multiplayer portions of the game.In-game levels 20 and above are strictly multiplayer. 20-40 introduce players to guilds. 40-60 deal with large scale combat. 60-80 have the player interacting with King Conan and levels 80 and up represent end-game play. Here gameplay changes as social aspects of MMORPG gameplay take over on a large scale.Real-time Combat That Takes Queues from the FPS
Traditionally MMORPGs have utilized a mix of auto and turn-based functionality in their combat systems, but Age of Conan dispenses with that, instead drawing inspiration from FPS/action games. Firmly rooted in the brutality of the Hyborian universe, game developer Funcom has devised an action-based system that not only provides the sense of actually being in the fight, but also requires the player to participate in it. That means no simple targeted attacks. Players can attack and defend from nearly any position in real-time, whether on the ground or atop a mount, while standing still or on the move. It's a recipe for carnage and one that fits right into the world of Conan.The combat system in Age of Conan comes in three forms: drunken brawling, mini games like CTF and massive Player vs. Player battles, which lets you engage in siege combat to defend or attack a city. All are easy to learn, but difficult to master, providing hours worth of play and replay value and are the core of this new cutting edge MMORPG.
System Requirements:
| Minimum Specifications: | Recommended Specifications: | |
| OS: | Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista | |
| Processor: | Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz or equivalent | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent |
| RAM: | 1GB | 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 |
| Video Card: | NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better | NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or equivalent |
| Video Memory: | 128MB | 512MB |
| DVD-ROM: | Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive | |
| Hard Drive Space: | 30GB of Free Space | |
| Other: | Broadband connection required for online gameplay | |
