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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10938 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: NCsoft
• Released on: 2009-09-25
• Platform: Windows XP

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.

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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.

The Aion Limited Collector's Edition - gives you the complete Aion experience:

• Hand-painted figurine of Aiva (16.5cm), a winged Asmodian Daeva

• Exclusive in-game items, including:

•  Black Cloud Wings (gives 40 seconds of additional flight time)
•  Black Cloud Earring (gives an HP and an MP boost)
•  Special character title with stat boost
•  Colour dye to tint one in-game item
•  Two character emotes
•  Official Aion soundtrack CD by composer Yang Bang-Ean (known as Ryo Kunihiko in Japan)

• Two dual-sided, full-colour posters

• Full-colour, quick reference card

• Two game DVDs

• Game manual

• Includes first 30 days of gameplay.

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Customer Reviews

Great Design, Badly implemented
This is a game I played during Closed and Open Betas, I thoroughly enjoyed that, I also played in the headstart however on release, the game has become a bit of a joke, below are some of the problems that still have not been sorted.

1.It is overrun with bots and goldspammers, there solution to this was to allow players to go anonymous and also ignore /block them.

2.There is no naming policy at all.

3.PVP seems to involve zerg fests that are so bad the the average person with a good machine will be disconnected multiple times due to the sheer number of people involved.

4.Major lag issues on some servers, this usually causes you to die, then a huge resurection cost to get back some of your xp.

5.Marauding bands of players much higher in level scouring the lands and ganking low level players often repeatedly, sometimes these bands even slaughter the supposed guards.

6.Severe server overcrowding.

7.Total lack of support by NCSoft, no sign of a GM anywhere despite them saying they are actively monitoring chat channels this aint happening, least on the european servers. You dont even get a response even when you raise a ticket.

8.Major client instability the game apparently has issues with a memory leak problem which causes a CTD. With the new Windows 7 it sometimes comes up with a request for the CD, despite the fact that it doesn't actually need it in the drive to play it also randomly stops working with the phrase `Aion Client has stopped working'

Despite its promising start the game rapidly slows down and degenerates into a grind fest the likes of which even I've never seen before in an MMORPG and i've played them since Ultima Online first appeared many moons ago. Unless you can commit half your life to playing this game dont bother buying it, because you will still be here in 6 months trying to grind to 50 (Max level)

Tbh it started off as a great game with lots of promise, graphically its beautiful but having to change your graphics settings to go into pvp is insane. Lack of prompt action with bots/goldspammers has hurt this game severely, even the measures introduced recently havent worked. On a plus note the queues are gone now, mainly because alot of people have quit.

If NCSoft could actually respond to people on the European servers it would be great, but they dont, they have made a grave mistake here and ignored their customers at least in Europe they have.This game seems like it being marketed to Europe as a cash cow proven by the 0% support myself and others who have requested assistance have received. Maybe they should have kept the game in the US/Korean markets, as this seems to be the only places where support is being provided.

Save your money, buy something else guys!

Visually & aurally one of the most beautiful games I've ever played
I've played at least the top 20 MMO's over the years ever since being introduced to them by a friend who was playing City of Heroes (CoH) at the time.

This game is something else. The Japanese influence to the graphics, music, game play and storylines give it such a pretty edge. All of the little finishing touches they've added here and there really make this an enjoyable game (even from the character creation screen - which rivals the CoH/CoV creator: unrivalled by any MMO up to now).

I am preordering the Collector's Edition at this very moment.

I like to be constructively critical, but I find myself unable to complain about anything I've experienced so far.

If you can get hold of a beta key, think yourself lucky. Not only because they go like hot cakes, but because of what you'll have a chance to be involved in... testing a very enjoyable game that resets the benchmark for not just fantasy MMO's (which there are too many of), but multiplayer online games in general.

If you get the opportunity to play it, you'll see exactly what I mean.

Aion
This Game is one of the best mmos i have ever played. It's graffics are stunning! And the questing system is very well layed out which makes playing the game extreamly fun! With many different proffesions to make money and gain new armour and wepons. Two different races of Elyos, Asmodians and balaur. The Abyss being pvpers Heaven and the scenary is amazing. This game would be a great buy for anybody wanting to find a new mmorpg.