August 20, 2007
‘Age of Conan’ Siege Warfare Unleashed at GC
2007
Playable version available to gamers on the
show floor for the first time ever
Funcom’s highly anticipated massively multiplayer
online game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ is getting ready to invade this
year’s Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. Not only will the siege warfare
system be demonstrated to select press behind closed doors, gamers will also be
able to join in on the fun by playing against each other in brutal, bloody, and
ferociously fast-paced player-versus-player battles on the show floor.
"It is time for the gloves to come off," says
Game Director Gaute Godager. "This is the first time we will let consumers get
their hands on the game at a trade show and we are kicking off by letting them
experience the intensity of player-versus-player battles. This is the true Conan
experience – bloody and barbaric!"
The siege warfare gameplay, one of the most
anticipated features in ‘Age of Conan’, will be shown behind closed doors for
select press for the first time ever. In the game guilds will be able to
construct entire battlekeeps for themselves and they can even capture and
destroy other guild’s battlekeeps by going into battle against them. Players
will enter into epic struggles for fame, fortune and land using swords, cavalry
and catapults as they charge towards each other on the blood-soaked battlefields
of Hyboria.
"In recent years the Games Convention in Leipzig
has grown into one of the most important trade shows in the business," says
Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. "This is a great venue for us to show off new
material from ‘Age of Conan’ and to let gamers play the game for the first time
ever at a trade show."
Everyone is invited to come and play ‘Age of
Conan’ themselves in the Eidos area in Hall 3, booth B20. Funcom staff will also
be demoing the game at the Microsoft area.
‘Age of Conan’ is consistently mentioned as one
of the most anticipated PC games in development. It has received numerous
magazine covers and awards, including ‘Best MMO of E3’ awards from IGN, GameSpot,
GameSpy and Yahoo. ‘Age of Conan’ is a key title in Microsoft’s Games for
Windows line-up, as well as being a showcase DirectX 10 title for nVidia.
