Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Preview

FiringSquad has tossed up a quick preview of Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, after getting to spend some hands-on time with the game at this year's CES.
Age of Conan's intro gives you a chance to make your character you own with ways to change his appearance, wardrobe and weapons much like other MMORPGs. The big difference is that in this game the combat is a little different than the semi-turn based stuff in other titles. You actually have to do some aiming with your massive sword (or ax or whatever melee weapon you want) in order to take out your foes. The demo showed our character battling it out with an array of enemies while trying to protect a barbarian woman with little clothing on her back (yes, this is definately a Conan game).