IncGamers: Aion: Final Hands-On Preview

After several closed beta sessions, IncGamers give its final impression of the highly anticipated MMO, Aion, by going over and re-assessing what it experienced in these past few weeks.

Are we looking at the next big thing in MMOs?

[Leord]

Well, WoW IS getting a bit old. Perhaps time for someone else to have the front seat in the big bandwagon that is MMOs...

[Malfurion]

Never!

In all seriousness though, no game will beat WoW overnight, but it is inevitable, sadly.

[Leord]

Yes, very interesting. We'll see what happens. For an MMO to be so violently popular as WoW, it needs critical mass of players in the first place.

To get the social networking effect...

[Maticus]

I'm fairly confident that Aion will release without a hitch, and that it will be very popular.

[Redrudy]

"...without a hitch" -- them be brave words. You must be pretty confident with what you have seen.

[Dorjan]

It's already a year old. If it has a hitch, they the developers are slacking bad.

[Medievaldragon]

What features does it have that make it a WoW killer? besides the awesome graphics

[Midgard228]

awesome and fun gameplay? not everyone looks the same with like 4 character face like wow has. full customization, o and pvp is actually fun, the flight feature adds to the fights tremendously.

stop acting like wow will last forever, no one said aion will beat it but Wow isnt invincible, everyone thought everquest was and wow beat it.

after a while people get sick of the same 6 year old game. sorry but whether its aion or the old republic or some game in the future wow will die.

for me aion destroys wow. just my opinion.

[Dorjan]

Hmm, Aion has the instances for towns? Hellgate had that too... Very annoying. Surely this could've been avoided like WoW or FFXI do?

[MajestieBeast]

Everyone who says this must be a wow killer wrong its a whole different play style, and i like it more then wow because i am pvp orientated while i do enjoy pve stuff this is the perfect mix of the 2. Love the crafting system and love the different classes characters are very detailed so pretty much everyone looks different havent tried abyss or any instances but i think it will be very good from what i have seen on videos.

[Chazmers]

not many MMO's get my attention but this definatly has.

[thetamer]

A great selection of previews, can't wait for the final game and the reviews!

[Allowen]

Until a Elder Scrolls MMoRPG is not confirmed that it is under develop this Aion will come in handy for 3 or 4 years before bethsoft launches its big MMo.

I am sure that this Aion is preaty good but it is a little too "japonese" kind of game but I am considering buying it since I dont play a good MMo since like 2 years now.

I preffer the style of Everquest lore/concept art/animation and that is another reason why an Elder Scrolls MMo would rock&roll for me since both games have an amazing story and don't have super exagerated fights/story as we can find on MANY easter's games.