Six reasons to be excited about Age of Conan

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Six reasons to be excited about Age of Conan

by Kyle Horner Mar 26th 2008 @ 9:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Age of Conan

Everyone seems to be aware of one or two great features coming with Age of Conan, but we realized that not everybody has a complete view of some of the coolest ones -- which has led us to sort of a blind men and the elephant situation. So in an effort to give a more complete view of why Funcom's newest title looks exceedingly cool, we've gone and thought of six reasons to truly be excited about Age of Conan. Our barbarian urges are beginning to take over, so we'd better get to the good stuff before we run into the hills and slaughter a bear or something.

Take a look by simply clicking the image above or the gallery link below.

Gallery: Six reasons to be excited about Age of Conan

Tags: age-of-conan, aoc, barbarian, character-creation, combat, featured, funcom, graphics, joystiqfeatures, lore, mature, spellweaving

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-26-2008 @ 10:25AM

Ghen said...

reason 7: its not delayed again like some other games :P

3-26-2008 @ 11:02AM

Bob said...

he beat me to it!

3-26-2008 @ 11:16AM

GRT said...

I wonder if it should be...

I'm a little concerned that spellweaving hasn't really been revealed yet. If they're just holding it back for dramatic reasons, fine. But I can't help but worry that it still isn't working right.

Launch isn't very far off... I hope they get it all working smoothly in time.

3-26-2008 @ 11:54AM

Alarie said...

This is one of those games I'm kinda glad I'm not in the beta. I am a huge conan fan and being in beta and knowning where everything is prior to launch I think would spoil it for me. Day one I want to jump in and be totally lost in a good fun way. Cannot wait. Spellweaving if it is broken I expect that launch day patch where it tries to fix everything haha.

3-26-2008 @ 12:40PM

Jack N said...

We'll see how finished this game will be once it's released. It'll probably be like WoW and most other MMOs with little to moderate end game content during initial release months.

3-26-2008 @ 1:10PM

Lemmo said...

I tried the beta, and not to break any NDA, I just wish I hadn't... because I wholly expect the finished game to be great.

3-26-2008 @ 5:21PM

Mark said...

The finished game will be great and offer something new to the genre. AoC has come a LONG way in the last two months...

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