Aion: Key Features Of This New MMO

With only a few weeks to go until the US and European launch, Aion is a new MMO which is set to built on it’s reputation as a popular and involving game in Asia.Despite sharing many concepts with World of Warcraft, Aion is actually a very different game to play! This is a very unique game, with stunning visuals and graphics that will appeal to the most hardened WoW fan - while also improving and innovating in many areas of gameplay. There is also a great soundtrack by famous Asian New Age music composer Yang Bang Ean. As far as movement and control, you get the feeling that you’re some cyborg with a data-feed chip stuck in your brain who is otherwise looking out on a very real world. The game’s Crytec servers even give you independently created and player-inspired storylines.

Surpassing even graphically stunning games like EVE Online, the visuals in Aion have amazing detail, and are probably the best we’ve seen from any MMO to date. Yes, probably better than WoW. The basic premise of Aion is that there are “angels” and “demons” (actually both are factions of humans/Daevas who grew apart after the breaking of their original world of Atreia; so neither one is evil or good, but both factions readily believe that the other guys are indeed plenty evil and need to be obliterated) who are at war simultaneously against each other and against a third common enemy: a group of “fallen dragons” whose hubris started this never-ending war in the first place (yeah - it’s Lucifer and the Fallen Host of Heaven). The evil dragons are computer-controlled NPCs; you have to choose an “angel” or “demon” human character to play.