New Conan game!

[st0lve]

Funcom announce today that they will be making a new Conan game.

Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG scheduled for Windows in the first half of 2006. A mix of a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Now you can enter the brutal domain of the world’s greatest fantasy hero.

In Conan the players will encounter a dark, lush, violent and sinful universe, presented in fantastic graphics and stunning 7.1 surround audio. In a world filled with cruel gods, mythical creatures, lost civilizations and a struggling human race, the mighty barbarian has finally seized the throne as king of Aquilonia. But Conan’s rule is on the brink of chaos, spiraling towards the doom of ancient evils.

In this twisted fantasy world, dark magic and brutal combat lurks around every corner, and each man and woman must carve their own unique destiny under Conan’s reign. In the true vision of Robert E. Howard’s dark universe it’s now time for you to become a messenger of death.

* Explore Hyboria, the legendary world of Conan, presented in incredible graphics and sound.

* Emerge as a hero from a story-driven single-player experience and embark into even greater adventures in the multiplayer part of the game. The branching single-player story is created by the award-winning writers behind The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and Anarchy Online so expect a rare treat.

* Experience Funcom’s revolutionary “Real Combat” engine. A new multi-point melee system allows the players to swing their weapons where they direct it, in real-time, going head-on against the formulaic nature of online RPG combat.

* Create player-made battle formations, and command both NPC’s and other players in epic multiplayer battles.

* Form guilds in the multiplayer game and lay siege to hostile castles. Let the catapults sing their merry song of death as the enemy is brutally crushed to a pulp.

Age of Conan has a plethora of additional features, as is expected from a Funcom online game. A presentation of the game, including more information about its features, will be held at E3 in May.

Page: http://www.AgeofConan.com/

I wish that Funcom would try another type of game insted of just MMORPGs, I think that WoW will keep going on for quite some time. I doubt that it will be as sucess as big as Anarchy Online when they released it back in the days.

Discuss.

[Lee3dee]

Graphics look good. But i think the MMORPG arena is getting crowded. LOL

[Tequila]

I don't see Arnie.

[Mazy]

Dammit I thought u meant O'Brien D:

[ginsengavenger]

lol, Conan O'Brien the Barbarian

[Marcos]

I totaly dig Conan! So this is sweeet!~

[TomWithTheWeather]

As long as there are clips from Walker: Texas Ranger... oh wait..

[Kamikazi!]

[JynxDaddy]

Dammit I thought u meant O'Brien D:

[Kosmo]

Hehe, you can see here how they call it "Age of Conan" so that people might not just diss it for being another fantasy game, if they were calling it "Age of Barbarians" they wouldn't make the connection to Conan the Barbie, but to Barbarians like Mongols or such.

Why can't developers make more MMOGs like Planetside, Neocron and Twilight-War, their popularity shows from the fact that there have been and still is some mod teams trying to re-create these great games, no one is trying to make mod about the basic MMORPG.

[PhilipK]

Looks really nice

And Conan = evr~!

[Skjalg]

I think FunCom will hit the jackpot with this thing, and i'll try to list the reasons here;

1) They have a very talented, NORWEGIAN , staff that can produce some high quality shit (those two screens st0lve posted wasnt the best).

2) They have good experience within the mmorpg scene, they made AO for christ' sake, its still beein very popular and was a trendsetter within its genre.

3) They have made other good story-based games like "the longest journey".

4) There will soon be a Conan-hyperia thing going on... This game will be released, a Anime movie will be released, a "real" movie will be released, a couple of new books + probably loads of other good Conan shit (yes im a fan)

I think its gonna go well for them...