Age of Conan Review

Feeling better today I decided to make this a game review.

Game: Age of Conan

Style: MMO

Rating: M (contains blood, violence and nudity)

Cost: $50 plus a monthly $15 subscription fee

Alright, the game starts off good. Lots of voice acting, which is not bad, and tones of quests that are animated and interesting. Less kill 10 of these and come back and more, help me save my daughter from an evil tyrant.

But after level 20 the developers got lazy in the quest/storyline development. Don’t get me wrong it’s a fun game. But after 20 it’s a game and not a story. One could argue that you play an MMO to play with other people but I would have to counter that this is a PvP game so you don’t have many friends. Even if you join a guild your still KOS to your guild mates. Your only safe in towns and if you’re in a party, but even that is not safe as others can come an gank your party.

I went and pounded a few instances and they are not as animated as WoW. Which is sad because you would think that games would at least try to emulate and improve what people want in a game, action and story.

Don’t get me wrong I like this game. The mounted combat is a waste of time as you always get knocked off really easy, however its fun as hell to run up behind a noob on your mammoth and press the space bar (normally jump but on my mammoth the beast roars and I cheer loudly!) scares the crap out of them hee hee.

Also I was in a guild and it basically broke up due to Drama when I was away for a weekend so there is no one online to play with. Making life really boring.

Now I focused on the bad here. And other than a few invisible wall that are frustrating the game is fun. Yes I do plan on playing it past the 30day trial. I want to see where it goes. Apparently PvP is going to be good. And I am willing to bet they are putting a lot of work into it as there are 2 patch days a week, not one. Allowing for constant changes and fixes.

Age of Conan has met with my approval despite the above mentioned negative comments. I could mention all the good things but I dont see how that will add to the review as the developer has already drove those features out to the masses like a train.

Score: 7.5 Mammoth screams out of 10