Haven't seen any nudity. Lots of scantily clad women, no nudity. (There's more skin at any given public swimming pool.) But certainly lots of blood. Is the recommender you mention in high-school perchance?
What I'm enjoying the most is the combat system. It's not what I imagined from the pre-game talk but neither is it the diabloesque, clicking on goobers, clicking on goobers, clicking on goobers, ... that is WoW. And the blood and finishing moves are integrated well with the combat system. In WoW, there are such things as critical hits, the results of which are, truly exciting, higher damage numbers floating up from your enemy's head. In AoC, a critical hit, and it's higher damage numbers, are accompanied by your character cutting the guys head off, or ramming your sword through his chest and using your foot to get him off your blade.
Also, the skill point system, which is there in addition to a feat tree (much like the talent tree in WoW). I'll admit I don't have a handle on the skill point system yet, not having played enough to see how the different skills work very far down the road, but it adds a lot of complexity and intriguing possibilities for different builds.
Then you have the quests. They simply capture my imagination more powerfully than the quests in WoW did, or in any game for that matter. The slave who begs you to find out what happened to the friend he was traveling with when he was captured simply holds more emotional weight for me than the farmer pining for his lost watch. This is obviously personal taste, but it certainly works for me.
Am I really the only one on this forum playing this game?