Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Game introduction

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) based on the world and works of acclaimed author Robert E. Howard. In Age of Conan, players enter Hyboria with thousands of their friends and enemies to live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King Conan.

Age of Conan's features include:

• An advanced combat system lets you choose every cut, thrust, and swing in real time.
• Groundbreaking graphics and advanced DirectX 10 features plunge you into a world of breathtaking beauty.
• A massive fantasy world based on over 75 years of books, movies, art, and music, developed in close collaboration with Conan Inc. to ensure the most realistic Conan experience ever seen.
• An unprecedented character development and customization system with combo attacks, skills, special abilities, and deadly spells ensures no two characters are exactly the same.
• Massive Player Versus Player combat. Capture battlekeeps and wage epic warfare between players and guilds, or hire yourself out as a mercenary and battle for pay!
• New and exotic classes, such as the Demonologist, Herald of Xotli, and Dark Templar, along with incredible twists on classics like the Ranger and Assassin.
• A detailed and engrossing crafting system, allowing you to make everything from armor and weapons to an entire city!
• Hundreds of unique quests for combat and crafting with extensive NPC interaction and voice acting, immersing you in the living world of King Conan.
• An extensive story-driven single player adventure to start the game drawing you deep into the scheming, seduction, intrigue, and betrayal of Hyboria.

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Funcom's mega-MMO Age of Conan has now been out for a couple of weeks, and it's time to say something definite about it - and give out that ever-important score. Age of Conan starts out fine as the early parts of the game received tons of last-minute polish for the launch, but once you get into the proper game... what lies beyond the newbie lands?