Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Preview
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The character creation system of Age of Conan was really detailed and quite nice, and though only the male character creation was completely ready to showoff, the guys did let us catch a glimpse of the females too. The women still need to get their bone structure fixed as they said, but it was enough of a taste so we could see where they were going with things and that we can expect just as much detail from the female avatars as the males. Physical appearance is one of the first things you'll choose, where you'll be able to pick things like your sex, facial styles, scars, tattoos, beards, hair, and much more. Beyond just set facial features, you can also tweak those existing ones so something like a mouth is as small or as big as you want it. After choosing the physical you'll choose your character race which comes in one of three flavors: Aquilonian (think corrupt Roman/Greek), Cimmerian (us), and the Stygian (Egyptian-esque). After setting your character up, off to the mainland and battling you are ready to go. When you start off on the mainland, your first hour or so will be a strictly singleplayer adventure, though just because it wants you to fully grasp the controls and the gameplay before you get partying or battling other players. Later on you'll be able to choose from being a mage, priest, warrior, or rogue each with about four subs and that will lead to four prestige classes as you move along through the levels and story. Archtypes will be chosen at level five. You'll also have six trade skill tiers to fool around with so you can craft some goods. The final level cap so far for the game is being listed as Level 80.
