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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £19.98
You Save: £15.01 (43%)
New (21) Used (12) from £7.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 755
Platform: Windows Xp
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
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 age of conan August 16, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
released far too early. so meny bugs in this game,that i spent more time downloding patches than i did playing the game.i give up at 25GB of harddrive space.at the moment it will take about 3 full days dowloading
to play the game on a slow broadband account.
Second Hand copies August 15, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Can I just advise people to be very wary buying this game second hand. I bought a copy through Amazon from one of the dealers who said it was unused. After loading the game in and trying to register the key code I was told that the code had already been used. Trying to get an answer out of Funcom to ask if I could re-register was hopeless I am still waiting three weeks after emailing them. So save yourself a lot of hassle and just buy a new copy.
Don't Waste Your Time August 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bought this game after reading some very good reviews. It looks fantastic and will look even better when they re-implement the DX10 which they removed just after launch. First few weeks or playing and you will enjoy it. But the time you max out your character at lvl 80 you will be board and very frustrated. At lvl 80 there is nothing to do the PvP is very poor and the endgame raids you will have done at 75-80.
The game is riddled with 100's of bugs most of the quest related and you cannot play the game for more that 2hrs without it crashing and you having to re-boot it. The classes are very unbalanced with casters being the best by far. Funcom just do not seam to listen to the players and carry on blinkered thinking there game is perfect.
Do yourself a favour go buy something else, most of the lvl 80's are quitting and doing just that.
 Such a shame August 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have played AoC since the day of release, I have a level 80 Ranger on a PvP server.
If you have the PC system to run AoC well, it looks absolutley stunning, the graphics and sound combined are both very well done and brilliantly realised throughout the various zones.
Gameplay wise, it is similar to most MMO's with the exception of the much vaunted combat system. The combat system is slightly different to what we have seen so far in other MMO's, does take a *small* amount of timing/skill to use properly and overall is more fun than the usual mindnumbing keybashing.
The starting area which takes you through your fist 20 levels of the game is very well done indeed, the storyline is good as well. It is polished and done very well.
On the whole, with some of the recent patches, levelling up to 80 is not too bad at all now, there are generally enough quests to do in order to get you there and not very much grinding required as such, if you take advantage of the quests on offer. Any grinding you need to do is really only in the 70+ range, and not a lot of it. What grinding you do need to do can easily be done, and fairly quickly in the Villas in Noble District.
Overall, despite the bugs/crashes getting to 80 is fine, fun most of the time, and worthwhile overall.
The game fails really, most noticably, when you reach max level of 80.
There is nothing to do, even on a PvP server. Currently the much delayed PvP "patch" which should have been in from the very start anyway, has still not shown itself, and has been delayed by 2 months or so. Reading the information available about what it will be like if/when it does come, is not very promising as well, very restrictive and unrewarding. I hope this changes before it goes live, or it will kill the game off for many people, me included.
This is the real problem with AoC, the developers Funcom, have an absolute gem of a game here at it's basics, but they have failed to correct quickly enough, the myriad bugs, incomplete and broken classes, no PvP system, and high end PvP (Battlekeep encounters) are also, quite frankly, boring, broken pointless and bugged as well.
It is a recurring theme in the game with little to no content at high levels, and having been touted as a strong PvP game, well, not having any PvP system in place from the start and still not having one over 2 months since release is incredibly poor.
The class balance is very poor, crafting is poor, itemisation is poor and there is no economy as a result. What little economy did exist has been broken by the developers in the last 2 patches.
Also, due to the way gemcrafting works, and the failure by Funcom to address these issues quickly enough, it has completely skewed World PvP as well. Players who have the time and resources are now using fully gemmed gear which basically allows them to 1 shot kill any other class in the game, ruining any semblance of balance to PvP. It also ruins their own combat system, one of the positives of the game, as tank classes run around 1 or 2 shotting everything with no combos required, just normal swings doing insane damage.
The way FC have handled gems is bizarre and totally against what 99% of players actually expected and wanted and expressed. They do not listen to the actual players and make some very very odd decisions about where they decide to fix things, and more often than not break more than they fix.
I would say this game had, and still has really, the potential to be truly incredible, however it has been badly let down by the developers, there are too many bugs, memory leaks, lag spikes and crashes, PvE Raiding is poor, PvP is meaningless, itemisation is a joke, and crafting is bland, boring, and mostly useless, with class balance non existent. The UI is primitive, guild management poor, no alliances, no options and what options there are, they are restrictive.
The top end game which was supposed to be Battlekeep sieges again is very poor. All these things should have been addressed by now, but they have not, and while they may get around to it at some point in the future, for many players it will be too little to late. They will have moved on to another game or back to a previous one. Many already have. It may be worth looking back in on AoC in a few months time, but the way things have gone so far, I have my doubts, and that really is a shame because I was looking for soemthing different than World of Warcraft to give my money to. At this point in time, AoC is sadly not it.
Buggy and Boring August 5, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very buggy and boring game. The lack of content on later levels is disturbing, and the quests are very repetive.
If you're even tempted to buy this game, please, try to get a trial key from someone first.
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