Aion: Tower of Eternity Review, Part 1 of 3

Here it is.

8/10. Enjoyable so far.

UI: The UI is relatively clean and simple. Your character is in a circle on the left, then your action bar, then your flight time and map. Target somebody, their healthbar is on the top center. Your health bar is over your head. Easy to use.

Combat: Simple as well. Except when you use combos. For example, when I press my first ability, I can then use two other abilities (that I can't use otherwise), and I simply choose one based off what I need - but it adds an interesting rotation that is always changing.

Questing: Not too much grinding. Alot of kill monsters, talk to people quests, nothing towards the BC/WOTLK style yet, still alot of Classic. It's not a korean grindfest, it's some cool stuff. Quests reward a ton of experience, questing is easy - you have chain quests, available by level and contributing to the main storyline, then random additional quests that are from each city. The way quests work is not getting a new quest, but updating the objective. For example, the quest might tell you to talk to Bob. You talk to Bob, then the quest text says Talk to Bob. Kill Tom. Go and kill Tom, and it will say Talk to Bob. Kill Tom. Bring Tom's Head to Bob. Yes, that's a real quest. No, that was sarcasm.

Flight: You do a huge chain - and by that, I mean talking to three people across the damn continent, and then you get your wings at level ten. Flight is awesome, but it's also annoying. Flighted combat is fun, but the one minute flight time limits your fun. And navigating in flight can be super-annoying. Keyboard turners, run away in terror from Aion. Even mouse turners can have problems controlling their wings.

Overall - It's alot of fun so far. But, there are a few improvements. Graveyards, there aren't any. You rez at the nearest city and have to pay a fee to re-obtain the experience you gained in the past few minutes before death. But when I'm across the zone and I die and rez literally allllllll the way across, it gets... irritating. Questing... It's great, except you can't move when getting a quest. Not game breaking, it just pisses me off. Aion is a great game, I am enjoying it, you should be enjoying it, it's only fifty bucks and a monthly fee of ten dollars if you pay by credit card/yearly.

In closing... You have been playing for one hour, please take a break. Because it's that much win.