The fifth closed beta test weekend begins this Friday, July 31st, 2009 at noon PST. In addition, the English voice-over work for Aion will finally begin appearing in the beta.

As far as the voice over goes, you'll be able to check out the different English character voices at creation, experience English voice-over narration in cutscenes, as well as a smattering of minor English voice over bits such as NPC greetings.

Though, what is surely to be the star of these additions, is the implementation of English VO in the racial prologues. You can check them out ahead of time here.

NCsoft has also provided sample tracks of the voice-over to whet your appetite for Friday, which can be found over at AionSource.