Age of Conan News

IGN has awarded Age of Conan “Best PC Persistent Online Game“, read on for their summary.

At the very least, Age of Conan is trying to do something a little different with its combat system. We’ve seen the game a few times now, and it hasn’t performed particularly well, but we still have hope. To attack opponents with melee swipes, you hit one of five keys to trigger specific attacks. As your character progresses you need to chain certain keys together in sequence to pull off special moves. At its core, the system remains similar to the mind-numbing hotkey triggering of past MMOs, but after playing, this seems a little more interactive and involving. We should note that this award is nearly impossible to grant properly. MMOs are meant to be played for hundreds of hours, not two or three. Still, in terms of outlook, this seems to be the most promising. It has a vast fictional universe to use as narrative, and boasts lush environments to draw players in. It’s also not an expansion pack, such as EverQuest 2’s Rise of Kunark or Guild Wars’ Eye of the North. We’ve got our fingers crossed.

Not outstanding, but it seems to have at least beaten anything else this year. Lets hope they polish it to perfection in the next 100 days.

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Kelly Heckman over at GamersInfo has posted her impression of the E3 preview she played. While not as in depth as I’d like, it does offer some new screen shots and info not yet posted elsewhere.

It was nice to see a purpose behind the combat (and death) I’d so diligently spent several hours experiencing previously. One does not play at death; one experiences it. I loved the dynamically generated camps; the idea of the Frost Giant is fantastic. I do hope the female avatars have the look of the woman in the trailer — she’s who I’d want to be in this universe. And chat, pretty please get that figured out? Otherwise, I will have to macro, “Help, I suck!”

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Coverage continues to come in from E3. This batch includes comments from MMORPG.com, TenTonHammer, Voodoo Extreme, GameZone, Total Videogames, USA Today, Worth Playing, and FilePlanet/IGN.

Here we have the latest batch of E3 coverage from:

MMORPG.com
Ten Ton Hammer
Voodoo Extreme
GameZone
Total Video Games Hands-On
USA Today (scroll down)
Worth Playing (features, screenshots, and trailer)
FilePlanet/IGN: Livewire E3 2007 Interview

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