Age of Conan - Preview @ VideoGamer.com

A three-page preview of the mounted combat in Age of Conan has been released at VideoGamer.com:

One of the most impressive aspects of the mounted combat in Age of Conan is how realistic the animals move and look. They have all been motion captured, even the Mammoth (using an elephant). Movement is impressively lifelike, animations are fluid the beast/avatar interaction is superb. Take, for example, the fact that your character will crane his or her neck to look backwards when you reverse. Or the blood stains on mount fur. Or the battle cries, triggered by pressing the space bar, which combine player and beast animations. All these little things add up. We're not claiming it's as good as Walking with Dinosaurs, but it's a valiant effort on Funcom's part.