About the game install itself; it took about 45 - 55 minutes to install the whole thing and there was around 800mb of updates to download after that．

It is a lot fast, and the combo-based special attacks and the shields give you the illusion of interactivity． Whenever I go back to WoW, I start to wonder why by weapon swings only hit one of the mobs in front of me, the AoC way of hitting everything in your path is so much more intuitive． Combat is Age of Conan is fast, furious, and fun．

Funcom's Hyborian Adventures went and nabbed the number one chart slot from Rockstar in both Germany and Sweden, sendifng GTA IV to number two in the territories．

Grouping isn't required, though after playing every multiplayer quest available to level 1 to 20 players in and around the starter city in Tortage, I found that none of them forced me to group with other players．

Turning graphics settings down to "fugly" helped some, but I could almost hear my powerful machine whimpering in protest．Crashes were also very coMMOn in multiplayer, occurring most often when the game loaded a new area．

But, back to the actual gameplay： public quests in Age of Conan don't deviate much from the age-old quest formulas seen in past MMOs．

It is amazing to see the vast changes that underwent with the advent of Internet in the world of entertainment especially in the gaming world as well as in the way that people think. Earlier people playing computer games were looked upon as nerds or geeks who were basically unsocial beings.

So you have a boring job. Perhaps you are a stay at home mom and your kids sleep a lot during the day time. Maybe you are a night owl and just find yourself getting mighty bored in the wee hours that you find yourself awake at night. Whatever your reason for getting into online games, you probably have as good a reason as the next.