Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10493 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2008-05-23
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Number of discs: 2
• Platform: Windows XP
• Subtitled in: English
• Dimensions: 2.52" h x 11.50" w x 10.51" l,

Customer Reviews

Disagree Mr Hicks
Graphically the lanscapes are fantastic and char detail is very nice. Combat is fun with differnt attacking points and moveable defences. You actually have to think about how and where to attack each enemy. the fatalities are fun to watch and seem quite varied depending on weapon type. Leveling is quick in comparrsion to other similar games. I've played since early access start on 17th and yet to see a single L80 char, highest I've seen in mid 60's.

My experience so far has been good, I'm having a lot of fun. Something LOTR, Guildwars and Warcraft just did not do for me. First MMOG that has a lot of potential since Dark Ages Of Camelot IMHO.

Mr Hicks Spec guide is totally incorrect. I've tested on my home rig with single and dual Sli 8800GTS cards and with 2 Gb and 4 Gb ram, the Ram made no difference at all 2Gb is suffient ti run on High quality settings. Even with 2Gb and a single 8800GTS card it runs at 60+ fps and 30+ in the main cities.

I also play it on a Tosh X200-23g laptop with 3Gb Ram and dual M8600GTS cards. It runs fine on high except in the main city where fps is down to 15-30. Outside its 40+.

I'll be perfectly honest, there are plenty of bugs with quests and some zones crashing. But, it is early days and we have to give Funcom some time to fix them. They are constantly doing updates and monitoring the performance. I'm sure they will get there in the end.

Disappointing
Well, it appears funcom made a right mess of things.

I spent months prior to launch working hard settings up a guild website/forums. A month after launch half the guild members had quit the game and I wasn't far behind them.

The game is so buggy and unstable it's barely playable for most people. Most of the patches seem to break more things than they fix. The classes are unbalanced and all the features that attracted me to the game are broken. The support is terrible, funcom are burying their heads in the sand and ignoring their customers.

Potentially it could have been a great game. Unfortunately it turned out to be a big disappointment.

My advice is keep your money for Warhammer Online, hopefully that'll be alot more rewarding.

Not impressed at all.
My second review after playing for a few months.

This game is total a waste of time, every aspect of the game is incomplete or not worling I wish I could give it a negative score. I've broken the game down into what I feel are the key components.

Graphics: Beautiful, the only thing in the game they got right.

Game Engine: Many crashes on zoning, out of memory errors, BSOD etc.

Leveling up: This is a single player affair, the benefits of grouping with friends are outweighed by the xp you get while you solo, this is not an mmo by any standard.

Exploits: The amount of reported in game exploits that have not been closed is ridiculous, the official forums are awash with people reporting these exploits and begging for them to be closed. There is nothing but silence from the Dev Team and Funcom. This is game breaking.

PvP: PvP is unbelieveably imbalanced, certain classes cannot fail to win fights, kill/death ratios of 29-1 are not uncommon in the mini pvp games.
FFA pvp is ruled by large guilds that dominate the high level areas by spawncamping the entry zone forcing you to leave.

Massive PvP: (Sieges) Sieges do not work and have never worked since day 1 of release. There are buildings that cannot be destroyed, missing respawn points, unworking siege engines. To this date no attacker has taken a battlekeep off a defender. This was the main selling point of the game and its not finished 3 months after release.

Rewards/Titles: There are no reward sytems in place for pve or pvp. Raiding is rewarded with sub standard gear, and pvp has nothing.

Itemisation and Stats: Itemisation is not good enough, stats for low level items are in some cases far better than medium and high level items.
Stats are currently not working, I'd say 70-80% of stats dont work at all. The stats guide promised by the dev team has yet to materialise.

Raiding: All current raids in AoC are bugged and have been exploited since day 1 of release. Tier 2 is not complete, Tier 3 does not exist.

Forums: The official forums are a mess, the moderators delete, ban and edit posts/members at manic speed. Post a problem, greivance or complaint and you get a locked post and redirected to the automated email system. Repeat your post and you get a warning, your post edited or you get a ban. The forums seem to be policed by 15 year olds that lost their ritilin tablets.

The Support: There is no support, you write in with an issue, complaint or report an exploit and you get no reply other than the automated "thank you we have recieved your email". Then nothing.


Server populations are down, people are upset with the lack of communication and silece from Funcom and are leaving in their thousands.

Don't buy this game, it's failing and it's failing hard.