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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £16.99
You Save: £18.00 (51%)
New (26) Used (12) from £3.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 3694
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:
 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.
 The Great Funcom Swindle July 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As stated by others, the first 20 levels are rich and beautiful and show a great deal of promise. After level 20 you will start to struggle to find enough content to reach each new tier. The game has basically left me feeling ripped off, Funcom have the money and are off doing there next project rather than enriching such a promising title.
Age of Conan July 30, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this game, hence my playing it for 2 months and reaching level 75, but having spent most of that time waiting for the developer to fix the problems, (which they promised to do, but utterly failed to deliver on), I finally gave up in disgust. The vast majority of media reviews are based on the first 20 levels, and should not be trusted, as those levels were over-designed to produce positive media reviews. The problems kick in beyond level 20, and there are three main problem areas:
1. The game was still in a beta stage when it was released, and contained game breaking issues of a technical nature for many players, (regular crash to desk top, regular lag spikes, regular memory leak, etc). Subsequent patches did not address or fix these crucial problems. The developer are however aware of these technical problems, and promise to look at them.
2. Numerous quests were broken, the crafting side was broken, the PVP combat was broken and/or unbalanced, etc. Subsequent patches did fix most of the broken quests, but the crafting side remained a joke, as did the PVP combat, despite a huge number of patches aimed at balancing the different classes.
3. There is a huge lack of content between levels 60 - 80, and nothing to do when you reach level 80, as the end game itself, (siege wars, raiding, etc), are all broken or pointless. The developer promised to add new high level content within a month and fix the broken bits, but by the time I left, they had not done so, and were a month overdue.
So, basically the game was still in a beta stage when I gave up on it, despite the fact that it was two months after launch. Hardcore fans of the MMORPG genre argue that this type of game needs oceans of time to evolve, and that we should expect huge problems at the birth of any new game. Perhaps, but I don't think any game should be released onto the market in a beta state, and would strongly recommend anyone delay buying this game for at least 3 - 6 months, and even then, they should check forums and web sites to see if the developer has finally delivered a working game.
Regards = Mr Grumpy
Dont bother.. July 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Forget the min specs on the box. increase it all by 2x it I have slightly better then minimum specs and it took almost 2 1/2 hours to install. then after spending a fortune on the game its self they then expect you to pay to play it. Its one of a few games that I regret buying now. By all means buy it if you have lots of money to waste. But its rather you than me..
 Buy this game - its brilliant July 24, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is my first ever review so hopefully that will show how great I think this game is.
Upside - as a veteran WoW player the graphics are great, go back onto WoW and it looks like a comic book - not a bad thing but funny.
Combat is different but once you get used to it I prefer it as you have to think not just press the same key repeatedly.
Gathering is also better for me as you level at the same time thanks to being attacked at most resources.
Quests are good and having to do the starting levels does make sense as it gives you chance to get used to the game. (I've played it with each of the 4 major types of characters and it runs slightly different threads of the same story in each).
Guild citys are amazing - watching the walls go up after everyone had donated materials is a thing to behold. Fallen Wild the guild I'm with are on tier 2 and the citys great.
Bugs - yes there are some but many are due to player inexperience not the game - my husband spent a whole day swearing at the computer and muttering that the game was bugged when he was trying to gather resources and the game wouldn't let him as he was in combat mode - he only needed to press the toggle combat key and he would have been fine :)
I sent in a bug report and gave up on a character as I'd got it stuck down a mountain - found out a couple of days later that the spell "Path of Azura" would have returned me to my home point with no trouble at all.
Possible downside - yes I've heard that it needs a good computer so as I was looking for an excuse to buy one anyway I treated myself to a quad core, 8MB RAM, 9800 NVid machine (cost about 700). It runs great on this and I've never had any problems at all.
So to sum up - yes this game is developing, but I think its far better to give it a chance and stay for the ride than critise it as its already better than the other games I've tried.
Also if its this good now it will be fantastic if its supported.
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