Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures preview for the PC

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a new MMORPG that is set to bring the genre well and truly into the adult realm - it's a brutal and bloody experience and no prisoners are taken. Taking you in to the domain of King Conan, you'll find the kingdom in disarray and facing evil enemies. Age of Conan is a solid single-player RPG as well as an MMO, so you'll be able to play it in both modes. We've had the opportunity to go hands-on with Age of Conan this month, so we can tell you all about what to expect when it hits the shelves in March.
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Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures preview for the PC

Age of Conan is a very adult game, with brutal themes and bloody combat. Eidos warns that, "This is no cartoony fairytale, ‘Conan' is made by grown-ups, for grown-ups, giving online gamers the chance to unleash the ultimate havoc and fury". It's unusual for an MMO to close off its potential market this way, so what does Age of Conan have that gives it such confidence?

Well, the Conan licence for a start! You don't get much more confident than the mighty King Conan of Aquilonia, although we join the fray as his kingdom faces great evils and as his rule approaches the brink of chaos. It will be your task to become one of Conan's messengers of death and rid the kingdom of the malevolent gods and mythical creatures that threaten it.

Another massive bonus for Age of Conan is that it's not only a mature MMO, but also contains a massive and very strong solo RPG game. This foray deep into Hyboria has been scripted by an impressive array of writers with previous credits on the acclaimed storylines of The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and Anarchy Online. So the player can emerge a hero and liegeman to Conan from the singleplayer game and continue indefinitely with even more open questing, plus PvE and PvP combat in the MMO. That's not a bad deal in anyone's ancient tome.