The fruits of NCSoft's purchase of ArenaNet are finally coming to...

NCSoft sure has a thing for popping out MMOs.

Let's hope that Aion's engine really is different than Guild Wars, at least when it comes to the pathfinding and crazy invisible safety rails.

I've wanted a sci-fi version of GW for quite a while now.

Some of the other games games look pretty cool. I don't mind a PnP as long as I get to be unique. As miuch as I like GW, I am getting tired of seeing twins.

The name is interersting, from Greek Aion ir Aeon: end of an age or time period. Most often used in the Bible to mean "the end of the world".

Some of tht animations look almost FF ish

The "in game" shot looks like NC Soft dipped DIRECTLY into the GW texture and shader archives.

they may have borrowed some of gw the interface for the preview but the engine seems to have a Z-Axis.

When is this supposed to be released because the WoW expansion is slated to come out later this year, and I am willing to wager A LOT of people who are playing other MMO's are gonna quit and move to WoW. Lvl cap increase, 2 new races, and prolly other info that is out there but isn't completly confirmed yet. Gotta be careful when a company releases games now a days.

Alex is with NCsoft. There's your source. Everything else is technically proprietary information.

Oh. My. God. FALLOUT WOULD TOTALY OWN! I would *so* play it.

good PR Alex. lol hehehe

In all good consience it prob is a completly different engine, but boy it does have a ton of similarities huh guys? we can see the walls for the paint job...

I got to play a little bit of AION at e3 and I have to say I was pretty impressed. Off the bat it caught my eye because the gui and some texturing was similar to GW, heck it was set-up right next to the Factions terminals. At a second glance and getting some hands on w/ it, it's definitely on a higher level. Don't get me wrong, GW is no slouch but AION felt a little more refined. IE. Little things like how the character pulls their weapons out of their sheaths.. the way the numbers pop up when you're attacking things.. the attack effects, etc.. The best way I can describe it is that it's a very clean game with wicked attention to detail.

I wish I could have sat there and created a char. from scratch and work my way up but alot of people were taking over the terminals. As a matter of fact I recall one woman was sitting there playing and she seemed really into the game... an hour and a half goes by and I walk back by the booth and she's still in the same spot. That says alot for a game where there's literally hundreds of other options.

Also the talk of the town seemed to be a game by Webzen called Huxley. It's a MMOFPS. The terminals were so crowded I didn't get a chance to give it a shot except for watching people playing it from 5 feet away.

http://image.jeuxvideo.com/images/pc/a/i/aionpc004.jpg

The woman in this screenshot reminds me of one of the Envoys.

Hum.

Interesting-looking game, regardless.

I think Exteel looks cooler, though. ;D

Something like this http://www.fallenearth.com/ ? or this http://www.webzengames.com/Game/Huxley/default.asp ?

Wow, you still pay for planetside? Been well over a year since i gave that one up.

If this other game was being developed by ANET as well, that is when i would begin to be more concerned though.

come on guys look at this, this is no guild wars engine
look at those lighting, and shaders, ...
that looks more like lineage2 to me than it looks like guildwars...

btw alex already mentioned its a totally new developped engine specially for this game, so why would you still say its a copy of the guild wars engine....

Because a lot of the people here have been conditioned into assuming that anyone on the buisness end of online gaming is lying and trying to screw you over.

I will not be getting this. If it charges a monthly fee, I am just going to move on to WoW. I not only feel cheated, but also angry. There aren't many MMORPG's with a large amount of players, so making another one is a big deal.

World of Warcraft, here I come!
(after seeing this I won't buy another NCsoft product ever again. I was a little dissapointed with Factions, and now with games being spat out by them, what was Guild Wars? A test?)

Remember that Lineage 3 is due next year and Lineage 2 Chronicle 5 by September 2006. It was said that Lineage 3 will use UT2007 engine.

Aion is not using the GW Engine.
Now someone mentioned they're using GW engine for maybe 3 games?

I hope Tabula Rasa isn't one of those "3 games" coz Tabula Rasa is definitely using its own engine.

Damnit. They steal my name, and now they are stealing my game.

I'ma open up a can of nerf on their asses. (and I've used this name since Starcraft back in the 90s, so booyah!)

One small point....a genera is engine independent. You could take the old Neverwinter Nights game and reskin the whole thing to look like Star Trek if you wanted to, script the quests to have a Trek theme and BAM you've got a Trek game using the NWN engine.