Age of Conan expansion bundled in shops

By Oli Welsh Published 19 April, 2010

Original game included in Deep Silver's box.

Funcom is teaming up with publisher Deep Silver to release a retail version of Rise of the Godslayer, the first expansion pack for its Age of Conan MMO.

The box includes both the expansion and the original game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, including all of its updates since launch (which should save new players a few days of patching time). You also get an exclusive pet - a puma - and a starter package of in-game items.

Rise of the Godslayer will also be available indepenently as a digital download direct from Funcom.

The expansion will open up the Asian-themed lands of Khitai, replete with dungeons, questing centred around numerous warring factions, tigers and wolves that can be trained up into battle companions or mounts, and an alternate advancement system with offline skill-training. The game's level cap will stay at 80, however.

Rise of the Godslayer has no release date, although game director Craig Morrison told us to expect it in the first half of 2010 when we met him at GDC.

You'll find plenty more information in our recent GDC preview and on the Rise of the Godlsayer and Hyborian Adventures gamepages.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 2 years ago

    I bought the original for 50p, so I doubt it's going to save people huge amounts of money. Not a bad idea though.

  • rorbraf #2 2 years ago

    So, is the game good yet?

  • neuroniky #3 2 years ago

    It definitely is very good right now, expecially if you like playing your MMOs solo. It has tons of contents and very peculiar classes that play in very different ways than the standard WoW classes. The world is bursting with players too, and the feeling of the game now is very, very good. I'm lovin' it, and this is by an ex-wow player that raided almost all the contents of Wrath.

  • Atropos #4 2 years ago

    I wish I had time to play this game more, I'll have to look into this expansion. When I came back to Conan on a "2-weeks-free" promotion a few months back the game had changed beyond recognition. I would definitely recommend everyone who quit after the disastrous launch try it again, it's a completely different experience. Yes, even you, Iokthemonkey.

  • Psi #5 2 years ago

    Really this should be the norm for all MMO's. Makes them more accessable for new players. I mean take Everquest 2 for example. To a new player with no experiance realising to play all the content you'd need to make more than one purchase is a little off putting.

  • rogueJT #6 2 years ago


    Yeah the orginal and Burning Crusade are contained on the Wrath of the Lich King's expansion pack.

  • Radish #7 2 years ago

    ^ No, you have to buy WoW and TBC seperately, they aren't included in WOTLK.

  • Ryboy #8 2 years ago

    Yet more meh.

  • curtlikesmeat #9 2 years ago

    Recently played up to 18 on the trial but have run out of time at the moment. It was good up until that point, played entirely solo.

  • Darkjinxter #10 2 years ago

    I await Craig Morrison's definition of 'first half of the year' to be amended to Q3, then probably 'holiday' 2010, then again to first half of the year 2011.
    Edited by Darkjinxter at 20/04/10 @ 00:09

  • kaya08 #11 2 years ago

    The first 20 levels bear no real resemblance to the rest of the game unfortunately curtlikesmeat.

    It tried it around the same time as the 2 weeks free promotion a while back.
    It was enjoyable but buggy, full of glitches, took hours of screwing around with graphics cards / settings to get a reasonalbe performance (that took a nosedive every update and required MORE screwing around with graphics cards).
    Like i said the bare bones gameplay was very enjoyable but even then it had a long way to go.

    Unless things have improved significantly again in the mean time i'd still give it a miss

    Also have they managed to get sieges working again?

  • levitate #12 2 years ago

    I'm currently looking for another MMO to spend my time with on the weekends as my upcoming weekends will be fairly free... I did stick my nose into EVE Online but I think I'll also try this. I've stayed away after all the crap that was going on with it but it seems they're sorting themselves out now.

  • actionfitz #13 2 years ago

    wondering how long after release it will take them to get the expansion to the point where it does what is advertised on its box...
    yes im still angry about upgrading my PC in time for the original game and the broken mess that game turned out to be.
    What angers me most is that they had to have known what state the game was in and they still launched it.
    I have no more respect for FunCom because of that, they lost my trust - once bitten twice shy etc.

    I do hope that The Secret World turns out to be good, but only because I love the games made by Ragnar Tornquist - some of the best games writing ever right there.

  • rogueJT #14 2 years ago

    "^ No, you have to buy WoW and TBC seperately, they aren't included in WOTLK. "

    WTF are you talking about you gimps, and why was I negged -4?

    I told a friend that I'd gotten WOTLK expansion and having deleted the old games from my system I wasn''t looking forward to installing all the old games plus patches (my copy of WOW came on 5 discs and BC on 3)

    He said "no bother, just stick in WOTLK it's all on there"

    And lo and behold it was - the WOTLK DVD contained all the entire game data and that was the only disc I needed to install.
    I also did the same thing on my nephew's laptop.

    SO PLEASE, YOU IGNORANT SACKS OF SH|T DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE YOU NEG SOMEONE AND MAKE YOURSELVES OUT TO BE MORONS ONLINE.

    Getting well sick of the level of ignorance on eurogamer.
    Edited by rogueJT at 20/04/10 @ 14:56