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An eye-opening Aion preview

by Kyle Horner Aug 4th 2008 at 3:00PM

Filed under: Aion, New titles, Previews, News items

It's very likely that you've either only heard whisperings of the game Aion or haven't heard anything at all. We honestly couldn't blame you with the huge amount of hype currently gushing out every which-way for Warhammer Online. The human mind, while able to absorb hype like a dry sponge to water can only contain so much of it at a given time. Our hope is that with the release of Warhammer Online just around the bend, you can eek out a little room for NCsoft's upcoming Aion, which was just given a wonderfully entertaining preview over at Eurogamer.

The gist of Aion is that it's a game being developed with the best of breed concepts from Eastern and Western MMO developers. User-friendly, PvE and PvP content coming out its nose, highly customizable characters, gorgeous graphics and uh, wings. To be fair, the wings thing is a lot cooler than it sounds when you just say 'wings' like us. You get the idea, however. Currently, Aion is looking at an early 2009 release date.

Tags: aion, character-creation, customization, eurogamer, mythic-entertainment, ncsoft, war, warhammer-online, wings

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-04-2008 @ 3:18PM

Lemmo said...

I'm a fan. As long as the interface isn't crummy and it's not full of farmers and 'spoiters, I can't see what about this game I'll dislike.

8-04-2008 @ 4:01PM

Henry said...

I'm looking forward to this myself, but I can't say I'm optimistic about it since it was originally known as Lineage Forever.

8-05-2008 @ 1:54PM

torak said...

That is not true, in an interview Star specifically said that Aion was not "Lineage forever" and that Aion was its own franchise.

8-04-2008 @ 6:29PM

recursive said...

I hear good things about it, but the style feels a bit.. generic. Beautiful mind, but let's start with a little less purple.

8-04-2008 @ 7:14PM

Arabica said...

"[...]and it's not full of farmers and 'spoiters"

This is NCsoft we're talking about. The game will have bot trains set up before the servers go live.

8-04-2008 @ 10:20PM

Rednights said...

It's probably going to be a GREAT game ran by a TERRIBLE company. I hope they prove me wrong though, I'm more likely going to play this game than WAR.

8-05-2008 @ 1:53PM

Jack said...

Oh no! not again NCsoft!.... Please just give us guildwars 2!

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