Preview of Dragon Oath (Tian Long Ba Bu) by Sohu.com

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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Peter Johnson

Tian Long Ba bu, known as Demi-Gods, Semi-Devils, is a very famous kung fu fiction written by Jin Yong. We have introduced some of this same name game in the last year. Since the game is officially released for a long time and it’s very popular in China, we would like to run thorugh the details of this game and present this extremely good MMORPG to our readers.

Game Engine

The game is made from a very famous open source 3D engine: OGRE. “OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilizing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes.” You will find that the game client is very small, only around 600M yet packed with a tonne of content. You can easily change your avatar in-game and dye your hair and clothes. But the developers made the game views to 2.5D so that the game will never make players dizzy.

Computer Specifications

Since it’s a 3D game, but we think most of your PC’s can handle this game. The following are the detailed specifications (not from the official website, but from our game reviewers. Oh yes, you need to install DirectX 9.0c to run the game.

Standard Spec.

Recommended Spec.

Windows XP/2000/98/Me

CPU

P4 1.5G

P4 2.0G

RAM

512M

Graphics Card

Geforce2 MX 400/32M

ATI 9550/64M

Hard Disk Space

2GB

4GB

Internet Connection

DSL

Characters

You can create up to 3 characters in one account. You can choose to become a male or a female like in most other games. But if you want to delete your characters, you need to find the NPC in game and it will take 3 days to delete your character. Personally I think this is a good protection for those players whose accounts get stolen.

Interface

We hope the following information will be helpful to you if you want to try a game in a different language.

Bar Introduction

1.Character 2.Skills 3.Pets 4.Quest 5.Trade 6.Language Input 7.HotKey 8.ChatBox 9.Exp. Bar 10.Chat Setting 11.HotKey Sheet 12.Inventory 13.Friend 14.Team 15.Guild 16.System

Character Sheet Introduction

1.Character Name 2.HP 3.MP 4.Stigma/Vit. 5.Character Level 6.Avatar

Map Introduction

1.Lunar Time 2.Map Name 3.Help 4.Min Map Window 5.Coordinates 6.North 7.PK Mode 8. Facing Direction 9.Auto Path 10.World Map 11.Area Map 12.Help 13.Guide

Factions

If you have read the famous fiction: Demi-Gods, Semi-Devils, you will know that there are in total 9 factions in the book. Therefore, there are 9 factions in the game as well. I think most of you know about Shaolin Kung Fu. Shaolin is a faction in this game. For more details, you can search wikipedia about the factions of Kung Fu in ancient China. In this game, different factions will grant you different basic attributes of a character. For example, if you joined Shaolin faction, you distribute your points to HP or Attack will grant you more power than those in Xingxiu faction, according to the official introduction(We haven’t practised this yet since we only had a limited amount of time). But it is definately interesting when different people from different factions PK.

If you joined a faction, you can learn faction skills and do faction quests as well.

That’s enough information overload for today. We will bring you some other details in the next posts. If you are interested, please do reply and tell us what you want to know about this game. We would happily help you out.