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Aion News - Blog Update: Aion Beta Weekend Review
Posted by Jon Wood on Jun 22, 2009 | 4 comments in our forums
Paragus is at it again, this time taking a break from his usual Darkfall-based blog post to give us his impressions of the Aion free trial weekend.
After my last entry about some of the upcoming MMOs, luck would have it that I was able to get a chance to play Aion during one of their recent beta preview weekend type events. Today I am going to try to give you my impressions from playing during the recent weekend event that had a level limit of 10, but did allow players to make characters from both of the game's factions. While I will be the first to admit that 10 levels is hardly enough to review much of anything, but I think I got a chance to sample the game and take a look at various aspects that were present.
Just to recap quickly here before I get started, I went into this with a few preconceptions about the game in terms of graphics, polish, and whether or not the game would be bringing anything new to table. I have seen some pretty remarkable screenshots of the game, so graphically I set the bar pretty high. The game has also been out in a foreign market for a while, so I expected a fair amount of polish. In terms of innovations I approached Aion with fairly low expectations. As soon as the log-in screen popped up as seen above, I felt somewhat reaffirmed that graphically I would not be disappointed. So with all that being said, let's get started!
Always interesting to read this posters blog, he seems to always have some decent points to discuss and avoids over hype.
As to Aion, it will be popular, but Blizzard has little to worry about I think because it really does differentiate itself much from the mainstream MMO's much. The flight ability is more a gimmick than a boon due to short flight times. The pvp though could be a winner, only time will tell.
How soon people forget how even 20 levels can fool a player who is looking into logging into a new MMO.
I will wait until someone reviews 40 levels+ of the game before buying another MMO in my life!
(PS: This is a well written and informative post about Aion though...so no slight on the blogger...just not going to get excited about any more MMO's)
Also of note: Warhammer is mentioned 12 TIMES in this article. I kept feeling like this word was being used a lot, and counted it..
12!!
There really is NO resemblance between Warhammer and Aion, so I would take some of the comparisons at face value as a preference of the writer.
Why Warhammer? Yuck.
Ok..now, I am done.
I did'nt follow the developement of this game, in facts your article is pretty much the only one i read about it. Looking at it and seing the screenshots, this look like WOW 2. I dunno for you, but for me, i'm not interested in playing yet another WOW clone.