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Age of Conan: Unchained

Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest…

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Age of Conan: Unchained is an adventure developed by Funcom, released 20 May 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.

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What Age of Conan: Unchained is

Age of Conan: Unchained is an adventure game developed by Funcom and released in 2008. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on DreamWorld.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Age of Conan: Unchained is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Funcom and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows in 2008. Age of Conan is the first installment in the planned Age of Conan series, and takes place within the continent of the Hyborian kingdoms, a year after the events depicted in Robert E. Howard's Conan novel The Hour of the Dragon.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.

Where it sits in the Conan series

Age of Conan: Unchained is the eighth of 23 entries we hold in the Conan series. It arrived 8 months after Conan. The next entry was Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer in 2010. Its critic score of 76 is 6 points above the series average of 70. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Age of Conan: Unchained holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 3Ghz Pentium IV or later, 2 GB RAM and Shader model 2.0 and 128 MB RAM: NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 30GB.

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What it launched against

Age of Conan: Unchained launched on 20 May 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, GRID (2008), LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and Ninja Gaiden II. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, GRID (2008), LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Ninja Gaiden II.

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We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Age of Conan: Unchained yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Age of Conan: Unchained — frequently asked questions

When did Age of Conan: Unchained come out?
Age of Conan: Unchained was released on 20 May 2008 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
Is Age of Conan: Unchained free?
Yes — Age of Conan: Unchained is free to play.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Age of Conan: Unchained?
At minimum, Age of Conan: Unchained needs 3Ghz Pentium IV or later, 2 GB RAM, Shader model 2.0 and 128 MB RAM: NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800 or better graphics, 30 GB HD space of storage.
How many GB is Age of Conan: Unchained?
The PC version needs about 30 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("30 GB HD space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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