Conan

Are you ready to pump? Thats the question you need to ask yourself if you want to mix it up with Conan and the muscular creations of the Hyborian age. Though not based on the Arnie movies from the eighties, this more authentic-feeling game does pack in the meat. Entirely based on the pulp books written by Robert E. Howard, Conan was always on the darker side of fantasy fiction; a character driven by greed and ambition over any righteous desire to save the

Aside from the odd flicker of graphical dodginess (to be forgiven in such a massive, not-finished MMORPG world), the only current flaw we could locate in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures was that you wouldn't be able to play as Conan himself. Luckily, the 75th anniversary of the publication of his very first adventure has inspired a whole heap of barbarous activity, so it looks likely that THQ's far more straightforward hack-'n'-slash adventure will fill the gap

"Ahnuld" Schwarzenegger is not Conan the Barbarian. Never has been. His fighting isn't as brutal or dirty as the real Conan's. He doesn't chug as much alcohol as much as the real Conan. And with all respect to Mrs Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, we're quite sure the Governator doesn't spend as much time banging the bed's headboard into the wall as would the real