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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Lemmo said on 3:18PM 8-04-2008

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.

Henry said on 4:01PM 8-04-2008

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.

torak said on 1:54PM 8-05-2008

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

recursive said on 6:29PM 8-04-2008

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

Arabica said on 7:14PM 8-04-2008

"[...]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.

Rednights said on 10:20PM 8-04-2008

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.