Tsudeki's Realm

[tsudeki]

I've been watching Aion for several years now and it's FINALLY at the point where it's getting released in the US.

The game is presently in the open beta phase and I have been playing around in Aion for a few days now.

My early feelings about Aion are that is has promise. The combat in PvE is rather fun with the skill chaining and flight is a nice treat (in areas where you can actually fly). There seems to be a multitude of quests to do in the early levels and you'll always have something to do with campaign quests and regular quests ("campaign" quests are essentially the main storyline quests).

PvP doesn't seem to enter the game until around lvl 25 when you can go to the Abyss zone. Aion for some reason calls this "PvPvE" which is fancy-talk for a zone in which you have quests to do but you could be attacked by members of the opposing faction/race (e.g., World of Warcraft's contested zones or Warhammer's RvR zones).

Presently, anyone and everyone can join the open beta as the "subscriber-only" restriction was lifted from file planet. So if you go to the following URL you can get your key and download the game:

http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/aion/beta/?_cmpid=fp197

Further information about Aion can be found at Aion's website:

http://aiononline.com