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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
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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
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Over hyped. May 24, 2008
36 out of 43 found this review helpful
*** Repost from the CE ***
This game exceeds with it's selling point (the graphics), but overall it's very poor.
Ok to start -
Good points:
* Graphics are amazing even on low.
* Quest system is a breath of fresh air. Very few fed-ex style quests.
* Combat system is a great change from the auto attack most games have.
* User UI is customizable, and user friendly.
* Leveling is fast. (both good and bad, depending on your view)
* Ganking is minimal overall
Bad points:
* Very poor launch.
* CE editions arrived with keys that didn't work.
* Pre-order keys also did not always work.
* GM support is limited.
* Leveling is fast. Funcom advertised 2 weeks solid hardcore gaming to reach 80, there were people lvl80 within 3 days of the early access going live.
* Unless you a PC that meets the recommended specs, it'll run pretty poor.
* An 8800GTX (or similar) and 4gb RAM is needed to run high settings at a reasonable rate.
* Not true open world PvP. Zones are instanced. So grouping can be troublesome.
In my personal opinion, wait a few months before buying. Funcom are swarmed with complaints at the minute, and those are growing by the day.
This isn't to say everyone has had issues, some are happily playing away.
For me personally, I think I wasted 60 buying the CE. This game was launched 3 months too early. It's pretty much still in beta in terms of support, glitches, bugs etc
Don't go canceling that WoW sub just yet.
Quick spec check: (to get 30+ fps)
Required to play high - 8800GTX (or similar) 4GB RAM, 3GHz C2D
Required to play medium - 8800GT, 3GB RAM, 2.5ghZ C2D
Required to play low - 7900+, 2gb RAM, 2.2ghZ C2D
It'll play on lower spec machines, but Funcom's minimum spec are a complete joke.
Buy at your own risk.
Good but the marketing is the real winner May 24, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game is good - lets get that bit said and out of the way.
The graphics are very good (DX10 is not enabled yet despite the option being selectable) - but they are not at the quality of LOTRO and EQ2. You will need a decent rig to run this on high settings but its quite scaleable through the options.
The starter zone is quite good with an extended story line that will take you to lvl 20 in one city but you have to be prepared for multiple instancing in this game rather than a free roaming single zone. The starter zone gets very boring on your second and third chars but it passes relatively quickly. A few people are quitting during this period and they are not getting a true experience of the game - but it does show that the starter zone is a little too long.
The launch was extremely smooth and a credit to funcom. But overall the game is good and fine but no market leader or innovative enough to unsettle the major games. Personally I would recommend you play eq2, assuming you have not already done so, and give this one a while to bloom before commiting.
 over hyped waste of time May 22, 2008
12 out of 43 found this review helpful
Well, i tried it on early access after a 31hr download. Nothing blew me away. Nothing new. The deflector shields were a bit odd. A lot of button punching for a so called new combat system that looked and felt very dated to me, reminded me of early 90's gaming. Great new idea that, press LMB really quickly and you always win. This is just my opinion but i would seriously recommend ,if you can, try it before you buy it. And if you're happy with your current MMO stay put, nothing new or good here.
 The best all round game I've ever played... and I've played a few... May 21, 2008
50 out of 66 found this review helpful
Well I hope I didn't give it all away in the title... Just so you know I'm playing this in the early access program and have invested about 6 or 7 hours playing it so far spread over 3 days. The character I have is now L18
This is a truly great, well rounded, astoundingly presented and fantastically immersive online RPG.
Here are a couple of things about me so you can judge my bias - I have played world of warcraft when it first came out casually and really liked it, - I'm no wow hater, but after a couple of years on and off I grew tired of the style. Years ago I played a few of the classic RPG's like Baldur's Gate and Planescape etc. I've also read all of the original R Howard Conan stories.
I dont play computer games that much anymore because I find them too simplistic and samey but I thought since I liked the Conan books so much I'd give the game a shot.
I'll just cover a few important areas
Story - the story grabs you from the first minute you enter the game through the tutorial levels - I dont want to spoil it and give it all away but its on par with classics like planescape and KOTOR. It should be noted that its really unusual and refreshing to see this sort of detail in a MMORPG right from the word go.
Graphics - The game looks amazing. Granted I have it on high settings but my comp handles it fine - I have a 2.6 intel duel core and a 9600 GT GPU card n 2 gig of ram. The work thats gone into the level of detail is astounding; you can gaze up at the buildings in the town and spot new touches each time you do.
Sound - the music is super good - it vaires a lot from energetic to very soothing arabian classical. However it isn't obtrusive at all and I sometimes stop what I'm doing for a proper listen in between the action.
Quests - 90% (I really mean 90%) of the quests I've done so far have been great with a decent story behind them - sure there have been one or two slightly silly fetch and carry style ones, but the quests are so well presented with spoken word dialogue that I'll forgive them a couple of duds.
Combat - Its really fast - and the interactive system that they use is so much more involved that the point and click rubbish from previous online rpg games.
Community - the server 'Aquilonia' that I'm on is (so far) full of helpful and friendly people - the word on the general chat is super positive too, again fairly unusual for a release in the first few levels.
Finally - I must confess it took me until I was about 4 hours in and had got to grips with the combat and control system generally to really get into Age O Conan. So if you load it up and it doesn't blow your socks off give it a chance and at least level to L20 before you draw a conclusion.
I dont normally give out high marks (check out my other reviews) but this little number really deserves it. I just hope it doesn't suck up all my time...
cheers n thanks for reading
Shame about the delivery May 17, 2008
11 out of 26 found this review helpful
Hmm ... this is a promising product with an intriguing premise, but Funcom (and Amazon) haven't yet delivered to the end-gamer.
The Conan stories are perhaps best known through the two major Arnie films, but the author, RE Howard, described a very different picture than today's "15" movies allow.
The game, given only about 20 hours' play, promises much of the mythology, however both Funcom and Amazon have struggled to bring it properly to market. True, it has to be said that no MMO has enjoyed a smooth start to life, and I guess this game is no exception.
I'm most looking forward to 23 May when the game opens, as I have been unable to take part in the Early Access programme (there are limited numbers) but thoroughly enjoyed the Beta.
Stuart
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