Preview of Heaven Dragon (Tian Long Ba Bu) by Sohu.com (1)
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Tian 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 into 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 with so many contents. You can easily change your avatar in games and dye your hairs 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 official website, from our game reviewers. Oh yes, you need to install DirectX 9.0c to run the game.
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Standard Spec.
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Recommended Spec.
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OS
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Windows XP/2000/98/Me
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Windows XP/2000/98/Me
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CPU
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P4 1.5G
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P4 2.0G
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RAM
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512M
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1G
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Graphics Card
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Geforce2 MX 400/32M
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ATI 9550/64M
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Hard Disk Space
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2GB
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4GB
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Internet Connection
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DSL
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DSL
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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 got stolen.
Interface
We hope the following information will be helpful to you if you want to try a game in 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 totally 9 factions in the book. According to the book, 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 limited 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.
So much for today. We will bring you some other details in the next posts. If you are interested, please do reply and tell us what do you want to know about this game. We would happy to help you out.