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Aion (PC) |  | From: NCSoft
Category: Video Games
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Sales Rank: 1112
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Genre: role-playing-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard Edition
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: AIONSTEELBOOK
EAN: 5060094442679
ASIN: B000WGU9M6
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Recurring subscription fee required to play
Everyone must choose a side...
Wield divine power and experience true flight as you fight for the salvation of your people in a vast, beautiful world shattered by cataclysm. Welcome to the visually stunning massively multiplayer online role-playing game Aion: The Tower of Eternity.
Discover a spectacular online world, steeped in lore and history, where two factions, once united, are locked in a bitter war. Take to the skies and engage in strategic combat, where attacks can come from any angle, at any time.
Aion: The Tower of Eternity will capture the imagination of every kind of MMO player, from casual to hardcore.
Prepare to take flight... - Take to the skies with the most advanced flight models seen in any online game to date. See the stunning world of Atreia in its full glory as you battle to save your people from annihilation.
- Totally customise your character through an incredibly in-depth character creation tool, advanced crafting systems and extensive item customisation.
- Engage in a unique and evolving combat system utilising combos, skill chains, counter-attacks and spectacular aerial combat.
- Introducing PvPvE! Plan and execute raids against rival factions, earn special ranks and rewards through victory, and prepare for unexpected attacks by the Balaur, a brutal non-player race.
Connects to European Servers Only
Amazon.co.uk Review
Aion: The Tower of Eternity is a visually stunning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), where players ascend to divinity and fight in a celestial war. Here they will wield divine powers and the capability of true flight, to bring deliverance to your people and restore balance to a world shattered by cataclysm. Choose your side, spread your wings, and claim your rightful place among the immortal legions of Atreia. This is the glory that is Aion. 
Develop your skill as a warrior.
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Admire the beauty of an ancient world.
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Delve into ultimate customization.
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Experience the thrill of flight.
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Quest through vivid environments.
View larger. | Explore the Stunning World of Aion
Explore one of the most amazingly beautiful and detailed MMORPGs ever as you fight to save a vibrant world ripped asunder by a celestial war. Choose between two divine factions, the Asmodians or the Elyos, and save your people from an ancient evil that threatens to destroy everything in its path. Over 1500 story-driven quests lead you through a wondrous and expansive world like no other. Experience the Thrill of Flight
Soar to great heights and battle in the open skies of Aion. Flying in Aion is not just a way to travel--it is a strategic and integral part of the game that adds a new dynamic to all aspects of the genre, including combat, quests, exploration, and harvesting. Engage in Visceral Combat
Engage in a spectacular and evolving combat system utilizing combos, skill chains, counter-attacks and stunning aerial combat. Group with friends or fly solo in the Abyss, where attacks can come from any direction. Experience the thrill of combat like never before. Unprecedented Customization
Totally customize your character through an incredibly in-depth character creation tool, advanced crafting systems and extensive item customization. Take individuality to a new level with the innovative Stigma system, allowing characters to utilize and combine skills and abilities not normally available to that particular character’s class. Key Features - Fight for the radiant, luminous Elyos or the grim, foreboding Asmodians in a massive celestial war raging all around you.
- Soar above the world and fight while airborne--the chains that bind you to the earth are gone.
- Adventure through captivating quests fit for an immortal.
- Hurl enemies down into stony chasms or pullem them mid-air in the Abyss. Tactics and strategy rule the skies in Aion.
- Customize your avatars to be truly unique.
- Reign over a world whose beauty, vibrance, and spirit shines with the brilliance of divinity.
- Join the battle in massed legions, with thousands of avatars to count as friends or to fight against as enemies.
- Experience an exotic atmosphere for adventure with an amazing musical score by Yang Bang Ean (Ryo Kunihiko).
- Behold a new graphical standard among MMORPGs--CryTek powers the heart of Aion.
Battle in a New Breed of Conflict
Battle for control of valuable strongholds and artifacts within the Abyss, a hotly contested battlefield resting between the upper and lower halves of Atreia. Plan and execute raids against rival factions, earn special ranks and rewards through victory, and prepare for unexpected attacks by the Balaur, an ancient race freed from imprisonment within the Abyss. System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | Recommended Specifications: | | OS: | Windows XP/Vista | | Processor: | Pentium 4 2.8GHz, AMD Athlon 2800 | Pentium Dual Core, AMD Athlon 64 X2 | | RAM: | 1GB RAM | 2GB RAM | | Video Card: | GeForce 6600, Radeon X1550 | GeForce 7600, Radeon X2600 | | Sound Card: | DirectX 9.0c compatible | | DVD-ROM: | Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive | | Hard Drive Space: | 30GB of free space or more | | Other: | Internet connection, keyboard and mouse; Fee for online play |
Product Description
Cutting-edge graphics redefine your expectations of online role-playing and reveal a true fantasy world where divine beings wage a war that will determine the future of the world. Your role in this war is pivotal. The fate of the world rests on your shoulders as you and your allies participate in brutal warfare, devise brilliant strategy, and claim power. For the first time in the MMORPG genre – Aion brings PvP and PvE together. PvPvE manages the complex relationships between races and guilds and also controls the mighty Dragons, a non-player faction and a common enemy to all players. Take combat to the skies – Flying is not just a means of transportation. Flight is an extension of the combat system and can be an integral part of taking on your foes in battle. A supremely powerful graphical engine – brings the world of your fantasies to life like never before. Ryo Kunihiko – one of the world’s leading composers of movie and television soundtracks, is creating incredible music that seamlessly interweaves with on-screen action, setting the perfect atmosphere for your adventures in the world of Aion.
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Aion - amazing or annoying October 20, 2009
Mother Gluten (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ive played this game for quite some time now, and i really do enjoy most parts of it.
Personally i think that if you are planning on buying this game, wait a couple of months. At the moment Aion is in a devilish state of limbo, one minuite you hate it the next you love it.
But this is common for any new game, just like when WoW hit the shelves years back, it wasnt perfect on day one, and people get angry. I adivse you wait until christmas, hopefully by then alot of the server issues and race distribution will be more balanced. Rome wasnt built in a day.
 I think people should review their reviews tbh. October 21, 2009
J. Freeman (UK)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Reading all the reviews for Aion, has made me want to write one myself, and defend Aion's case.
I don't think any of the reviews are fair what so ever, as they all seemingly appear to be based on the pre-release version of Aion, or very early into the release at best.
I just started playing Aion about 2 weeks ago, and I have to say that every minute I have spent on it I have been nothing but amazed.
I don't like how people in some reviews have been heavily slating the fact that Aion has had a few teething problems within the pre-release versions, and around release. I think these are extremely unfair comments to make, as everybody that plays MMOs know, every MMO is going to have hickups at the start; and according to everyone I've spoke to that has played WoW from the beginning, WoW to had problems. And besides, what do you expect within a PRE-RELEASE/BETA product? It's not going to be perfect is it? and anyone that signs up to them shouldn't be stupid enough to expect it to be perfect. The other complaint I keep hearing is the server queue times. Fair enough, I can see why it would be annoying. But again, what do you expect? It's a highly anticipated MMO.... M M O!! The first "M" meaning MASSIVELY. This means A LOT of players. Most mmo developers can't even anticipate how many people are going to be signing up on day 1. All they can go by is the pre-orders and the players on pre-release (which is probably one of the reasons they even do a pre-release). Imagine if they didn't have that! You will never know how many people are going to buy the game on day of release, and server queue times could have been up to around 10 hours! Sure, they might have seemed slow in fixing the problem. But you can't expect them to have more servers set up and ready to go within 5 minutes can you?
Well after my little rant, all I can now say is that besides the odd bugged quests in the early part of the game (which actually work on a different channel), pretty much all the problems brought up in the other reviews, have been fixed. I have had nothing but pure fun and enjoyment from Aion.
The only thing which may make this review irrelevant to a lot of you, is that I haven't played WoW (not properly, at least). I've played it for a week or so on a trial, and watched a lot of friends play it. So i can't start comparing the two games (which might actually be refreshing to some people).
I have however, been a hooked Final Fantasy XI ONLINE player, and a Phantasy Star Online player. So I do know what an MMO is and how it should play. And I can say that for me, Aion has hit it right on the mark. It still has those typical MMO quests of "collect 10 of these, kill 15 of them, and come back to me for a present" throughout the game, but they are nonetheless new and challenging. And regardless of whether you have been playing WoW for the past 3 years or whatever, it's a new world, with new characters, and new abilities, so you are still going to experience that "new" feeling and the accomplishment. But then, when you hit level 20, you're shot into the world where your allies and the enemy can meet at any time through the Rift system. You could be getting on with a quest quietly, when all of a sudden a portal (rift) will open up just in front of you, and 20 of your PvP enemies will come running at you full force. Nothing is more exhilarating than announcing where these enemies have appeared on the chat system, and having an army appear to resurrect you and chase down these unwanted guests that have entered your world.
I'm in work at the moment so i'm going to end my review there before I get caught :P Which also means i wont be reading over and correcting errors. So I apologize for that.
But there is so much more that I have missed out and would love to write about this game. I'm sure IGN or some other review site can fill you in on the massive gameplay features that I don't have time to write about.
So in short, any problems that were around at the start (queue times, gold spammers, etc etc) have all been sorted and fixed. And the game itself, well in my opinion, it deserves a great 10/10. I'm absolutely loving it. So buy it, and make a decision for yourself :)
-John
Not WoW, Don't even bother comparing. October 26, 2009
H. tsang (Server Kahrun)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As far as all the comparisons people seem to be making go, this is nothing even remotely like WoW.
This is a PvP orientated game, but having said that, it doesn't push that marketing point until you hit level 20. Before that, it's all PvE which is good, it starts gentle.
The cap is level 50 so far, so it's a fair sized start before you meet the factor which decides, for a lot of people, whether they will stay or leave. Unlike other MMORPGs that I've played, built solely around massive PvP (by that I mean over 100 people in a single fight), Aion gives plenty of quests and makes the whole leveling experience a lot less of a grind than your average Korean MMO. It's a lovely thing to have, and gives it much more of an appeal to me at least.
Being PvP based, you will find that sometimes it's hard to quest because you're being killed by enemy players. But fortunately that doesn't happen too often so far, so your introduction to the higher level community is quite gentle at 20. Without meaning to sound elitist, it does take a little perserverance to keep going through all the ganking and quest distractions and work you way up, until you can be one of those people who can take the fight back to them, or come to the aid of the lower levels that are getting ganked while they're leveling.
Personally I prefer the PvP based model, I find it bonds the community better, even if you do still get the stupid squabbling on the main chat channels, but in the heat of it, people will pull together to repel the enemy. But I also know plenty of people who don't like this type of MMO, and that's fine too. If you've never tried a PvP orientated MMORPG, I'd say this would be a good chance to give it a shot, especially seeing as Aion is an absolutely beautiful game, but that's hardly surprising being that it is run on the Crytek engine.
One final note is that, it's not solely a PvP game, it's technically PvPvE, and as far as I've seen this means that while you're battling it out with opposing players, it also means you have NPCs to contend with. So while you're fighting off players, you're also fighting mobs at the same time, keep in mind that the mobs will attack both sides, so your enemy is going through the same troubles as you.
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