South Korea's NCSoft's vast new multiplayer online game,
Aion for PC, is the latest worthy challenger for the World
of Warcrafts, for gamers often wonder whether there could
ever be another game as popular as this. As an alternative
to WoW, that has more than 11 million subscribers, Aion is
something impressive that other wannabes have not been able
to even get near.
The game has a big following in South-east Asia and it's
been adopted well for western audiences. There are early signs
promising the Korean Company, which was a successful pioneer
in early online games. In Europe, more than 400,000 had ordered
the game before it was released and there are reports that
there are more than 3.5m subscribers in Asia playing the game.
You may like this game which starts with stunning graphics
(using the pretty world and creatures to dazzle), with amazing
natural effects - like water, mist, waves and trees in the
breeze - along with spells and nasty monsters who having a
lot more polygons to show off than expected.
Overall the gameplay is silky smooth and Oceanic servers
mean close hardware with less lag. It is built on a version
of the Cry Engine, made famous from the FarCry FPS genre.
The story is that you have lost your memory in a world called
Atreia, where you ascend to divinity and fight in a huge celestial
war. A world that has been torn in two with the resulting
two races trying to survive. They have a common enemy for
the civil war and need to help each other to keep living.
Every character in the game can fight and challenge other
players.
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