Aion zone video for Verteron set to the tune of majestic

by Kyle Horner on Feb 10th 2009 12:00PM

It's time lose ourselves on a magical journey through- whoa, whoa! Is that a lady with big, feathery wings? Oh good, it's a new zone video tour of Aion. For a second there we thought Hawkgirl was finally assaulting us for making fun of her helmet.

NCsoft has really outdone itself with the world design in Aion. The architecture alone makes us wonder if we'll ever stop exploring long enough to level up. Also, we didn't once see a zone covered in mushrooms and slathered with purple. Huzzah

Our standards aren't actually that low, we promise. In fact, considering that Aion is running on a beefed up CryEngine (the one from Far Cry) there was actually quite a bit of presupposition on our part.

Since Aion is proving to be pulling some visual heft, we're feeling decidedly excited for the North American launch, which is still unknown to anyone but NCsoft. Hopefully with videos like this showing off the game's serious visual oomph, we'll get a concrete launch date soon. Check out the full video after the break.

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Tags: aion, aion-tower-of-eternity, cryengine, far-cry, hawkgirl, ncsoft, verteron, video

Reader Comments (3)

Looks damn good I have to say. No idea about the actual gameplay, but the environments looks both graphically and esthetically stunning. I just pray that the gameplay is as good as the environments. If they are, or even... half as good, the game will most likely do it for me.

It's pretty damn nice looking. When do we get to play it!

Aion certainly looks impressive, I think it would be difficult to argue otherwise. It just seems as if all the buzz is related mainly to just that and that alone. Perhaps that's enough for some people but I would certainly hope it's hugely playable, too: graphics alone is simply not enough of an incentive for me.