Hyborian Adventures is a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by the Norwegian computer video game developer company Funcom for PCs. The game launched at 11 p.m. (GMT) on May 17, 2008 in a limited way, being available to those who had pre-ordered the game and registered for early access. The full release of the game for North America was May 20, 2008 and for Europe May 23, 2008 for the PC version. Heroes of Three Kingdoms Gold Although originally announced as being available for the Xbox 360, the console version is at least a year behind schedule.
Hyborian Adventures is the first installment in the planned Age of Conan series. Age of Conan itself 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. Hyborian Adventures'' release celebrated the 76th anniversary of the Conan franchise.
Set in a low fantasy, pseudo-historical ancient world called the Hyborian Age created by Robert E. Howard. The warlord Conan has seized the throne of Aquilonia, Heroes of Three Kingdoms Gold but ancient evils seek to overthrow him.
Regarding the world design, lead artist Terje Lundberg said, "Our main impressions about the look and feel of Hyboria come from our interpretation of the stories written by Robert E. Howard. When you read Howard''s work you''re immediately drawn into a gritty world of dark and ancient forces, and mighty and decadent civilizations. You feel the HOTK Gold great weight of the ages and sense the very history in the crumbling mortar and the ruins. Therefore we''ve been mindful from the outset to create a world which is true to Howard''s writing. There is majesty in Hyboria but it''s of a monolithic, brutal and primitive kind - it certainly isn''t "high fairie" where everything appears as though it was built only yesterday and is devoid of context."
