As gaming communities across the web take inventory of the last year, many are summing up 2009's MMOG releases and putting their own stamp of approval, or disapproval, on the best and worst games of the year. Aion has managed to impress multiple community sites bringing home even MMORPG.com's coveted "Best New Game of 2009".

For those who might not have guessed, MMORPG.com's New Game of 2009 is NCsoft's Aion. On the surface, Aion is one of the most graphically impressive MMORPGs created to date, sporting visuals that are thus far unmatched in the MMO genre. In creating Aion, the game's developers took existing concepts and conventions of gameplay and added interesting aspects like the game's flight system to give it its own flavor.

MMORPG.com was not the only community site that found Aion to be the game that made 2009, many other sites, including Ten Ton Hammer, had favorable things to say about the eastern crossover MMMOG.



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