Age Of Conan in open beta
I’ve recently been hooked into the Lord Of The Rings Online. I thought I should check out any new MMORPG titles coming up this year or next year. I found Age of Conan which has a new way of fighting. The combat control is more like a console game rather than a typical control system of a MMO. You can direct your attacks in many different ways and you can combine attacks to use better attacks. Your attacks can wound several mobs in the area so you don’t have to attack one at a time like other games. Plus you will be able to attack on top of a horse with arrows, swords or a lance like jousting!
I must warn you now that this game does have lot of blood and gore. Some of the attacks are similar to stuff you see in mortal combat. Some of the videos I have found are a bit violent but this is a violent game set in a violent era! I am personally looking forward to trying it out. I have signed up to beta and you can as well by clicking this link here.
Some of the other interesting features are user made cities where it begins to feel like a RTS style game. This video shows a person using a trebuchet to stop an army coming down a hill. Of course this game has pvp and you will also be able to get drunk and fight in brawls! Groups of players can raid other player built cities or just go raid a NPC city. There is also a place for people like me who like to solo.
This looks like fun and I want to try the new style of fighting. It seems it might lean more to PVP than PVE so it might not be a perfect game for me. But I am still interested and hope to play so I can give more information in the future. The future looks bright and crowded in the MMO worlds. How can all these games survive at the same time? Guess time will tell.
The PC version will be coming out this year and the xbox 360 version is set to be released next year. The monthly cost will probably be around $15/month but only once after get your character to level 20. This is because the part before level 20 is a solo game and the world opens up for you to play with others at level 20.
May 20th, 2007 • 
JohnnyRS • 
comment | May 20, 2007 at 19:39 | individual comment-link
This is from the same guys that made Anarchy Online (Funcom). It would be interesting to profile how many different major MMORPG companies there are? Sony, Blizzard, Turbine, Funcom, etc … a relatively small number of companies are responsible for many of the major MMORPG titles coming out.
comment | May 20, 2007 at 23:15 | individual comment-link
Technically, its in closed beta, not open. Open refers to when everyone can gain access. But AOC does look like the next big thing for PVP’ers in MMO’s thats for sure. As long as Darkfall doesn’t release.
comment | May 21, 2007 at 01:29 | individual comment-link
Ooooh, so Funcom develops Age of Conan. Got addicted to Anarchy a while back. I might try this one too.
comment | May 21, 2007 at 09:40 | individual comment-link
Anders Ogre thanks for poiting that out. I first thought it was in closed beta but saw they started in closed beta last summer. Then checking mmorpg.com article they called it open beta. They might have just went into a different stage of closed beta. Last month they opened it up for people to signup but no guarantee to actually able to play. If I get the official word it’s still closed then I’ll make that correction.
pingback | August 28, 2007 at 15:18 | individual pingback-link
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comment | April 17, 2008 at 13:33 | individual comment-link
Their idea of an open beta is a bit of a joke, I’m afraid. There’s no way I’m paying for a Fileplanet subscription just to test the first 13 levels.
comment | May 2, 2008 at 08:31 | individual comment-link
This is what they call open beta. It’s not a stage of the closed beta. Funcom has decided that a limited amount of people may join the so called open beta.