GameSpy's Hands-On Beta Review

GameSpy's Allen "Delsyn" Rausch ran an in-depth review of Age of Conan during its beta stages. He goes into quite a bit of detail about the game, its classes and playability.

Despite numerous delays, the vision for the product has remained remarkably consistent -- to offer players the opportunity to adventure in the sweaty, sensuous, decadent universe of the prototypical barbarian hero first created by pulp author Robert E. Howard in the 1930s with all the setting's myriad forms of brutal combat intact.