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Game Description

Zentia, the latest Free-to-Play 3D MMORPG developed by Pixel Soft. Zentia is a beautifully rendered MMORPG world where players will step into the shoes of one of 22 former immortals who are tasked with fixing the mortal realm. Players must fight or subdue the demons, monsters and chaos that were let loose upon the world. The game features unique, multi-passenger mounts, extensive pet systems, and an exciting new approach to characterization.

• 8 diverse classes from which to choose
• 22 unique characters to play
• PvP, including jail time for attacking peaceful players
• More than 100 different types of monsters to capture for pets or multi-person mounts
• Exciting quests, quizzes and daily events at every level

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We are very pleased to join the closed beta testing for Legend of Xuanyuan, latest 3D MMORPG produced by Tencent Games. The game is made based on Gameryo Element 2.3, which is the main engine of Xbox 360 so before we started to test the game, we predict the graphics would not disappoint us. That’s true.

Beside the graphics and flashy effects, the music in game sounds pretty fit in the game. When you are in the town or when you are leveling up in the wild, you will find the background music is very nice and you even want to hear it again and again. If you want a preview, you can click here to visit their official website since it has a pretty nice melody hanging around you.

As for game details, we would like to leave it to you guys to explore. Since the closed beta testing is ended, we would like to talk about the following issues of the game.

Pros

We are game veterans and we are sure the graphics in this game is cool and awesome. Let’s check out some screenshots here:

Most of you guys will find the games made in China not good looking. But Perfect World Entertainment and Tencent Games, the two companies’ products are really nice since both companies got great profits and they invested a lot in game engine. As we said in the previous paragraph, Legend of XuanYuan is made based on Xbox 360 engine. It will change your concept of Made in China MMORPGs.

As to other parts, when we were born in the city, the city is ruined by invaders. You can easily find your enemy and battle. This is totally different from other games since normally you will born in a peaceful town, and then you find NPCs to learn some basic knowledge to survive in this world blar blar blar… Legend of XuanYuan does have newbie teaching system. But it’s simple and quick. You can immediately join your battles whenever you like. You found yourself is needed for this town! You can help NPCs to fullfill their wishes and during your adventure,  you are starting to get to know the NPCs, operations and gaming system easily.

During Lv.1 – Lv.20, we found the game with rich content and clear instructions. We experienced almost every system in the game.

Cons

Since it’s early beta testing, we believe a lot of stuff are not implemented into the game yet. We gradually found after you reach Lv.20, it’s pretty boring and dull. You start to do Loop Quests every day and nothing really new get you. We are sure in the next round beta testing, quests part will get improved.

Overall, Legend of Xuan Yuan is a game you should be anticipating. We are not sure when will this game to be introduced into English, but according to its quality, the day will come soon!

Legend of Xuan Yuan (Xuan Yuan Chuan Qi) is produced and published by Tencent in mainland China.

We would like to tell you folks that we’ve just updated the free mmorpg list on our site. It’s been a while since our last update for the information of free to play mmorpg list. This time we separated our games in alphabetic order so you can easily find out the games you need to know by knowing their first character. We removed some of the “dead” games and added some thing new. Please check out the right sidebar for these information.

As you know since we are merged with F2pGames.com. Fmmorpg.com will mainly report reviews of mmorpgs while in our sister site f2pgames.com, they would introduce all free to play games: games in beta, mmorpg, social games, web games and android free to play games.

We truely believe to work with guys in F2pGames.com will be a win-win for us. So the updates here in fmmorpg.com will also be seen in F2pGames.com. But it doesn’t mean we must synchronized our steps with F2pGames.com. We will have our own exclusive reviews as well.

Cheers and let’s have a new start!

Karen

Chief Editor of Fmmorpg.com

Overview

Social City is a simulation social game, which is developed by Playdom. Playdom, the third largest game developer of SNS(Social Networking Services) in the world, is a top game developer on Facebook and MySpace which is committed to connecting people all over the world through the best social games. As a representative social game, Social City will greatly satisfy those who love to play simulation games and who want to play with their friends as well. Therefore, Social City becomes one of the hottest games on facebook at the moment.

Delicate Game Scenes

When you start to play a game for the first time, you will see the game scenes at first sight for your impression. Social City is a game filled with delicate, lovely and dynamic game scenes. Although the screen is small, the game is taken full account of the detailed parts of different kinds of constructions, including forklifts and wooden crates in the factories, hammocks in the yard of residential houses and all that. Likewise, there are a lot of dynamic scenes in the virtual city. On one hand, you can find a busy picture when you see the trucks moving in and out and the people mowing the lawn; on the other hand, you can also feel at ease when you see the pedestrians, clouds and basketball playing. The virtual city is so flourishing due to the coexistence of busy and leisurely scenes.

Simple Operations

For a small and casual game, Social City can simply get the information and easily begin to operate. The main theme is to increase the population, keep your residents happy, earn more coins through contracts and expand your city without any difficult strategy. The new city gazette in the news part can lead you to the updated news so that you won’t miss them any more. You can add your friends on facebook into the game by inviting new neighbours. At the same time, you can take a snapshot or change to fullscreen mode by clicking related icons listed on the side of the screen. When taking a break from working, you can play the game for a while. While you are working, you can also play the game without any difficulty and confusion.

By Your Own Design

Social City is different from ordinary simulation games. For the purpose of free designs, you can build your city via the designs and plannings for your own. Once someone said that architecture was a landmark of a city. Now I say that the free designs and city plans for the virtual city will be a landmark of Social City, if possible. A plenty of construction materials are provided in the game list, ranging from featured and leisure buildings to terrain and road patterns. Therefore, you will have a chance to become a designer to build your own unique virtual city when using such plentiful materials. In the period of operation, different styles of limited constructions you can choose as your wishes are the best selling point in Social City, such as Paris Cathedral, Leaning Tower, and even world cup stadium. As a result, you can let your imagination run riot, and then build a fascinating city by your own. The building system makes you to become a real host in the game. Like the ads on the website, in Social City you run your very own bustling Metropolis, or a Mario Land!

Abundant Interaction

The highlight of Social City must be the abundant interaction. Given up traditional modes for simulation games and PC games, Social City connects people into their communities through neighbourly relation, free creation and social interaction. Composed of thousands of people on facebook, you will be never worried about the problem your friends and you cannot be knit together by common interest. In order to introduce yourself to your friends, you can share your blueprint and story of the city. At the same time, you can publish your achievements and developments on facebook so that your friends can get firsthand news about your city. Of course, friendly contacts are necessary. In this way, you can send free presents to your friends. Or help your friends when they happen to meet instant events, like catching the thief and saving the kitty in the trees.

Expectation In Future

In the stage of the beginning at the moment, Social City still have a huge space to make a better game. Now let me suppose the further update in future. Firstly, I like the moving clouds upon the sky. Will it have weather system or day-and-night system to make the game more and more real? And then, the success for Social City cannot leave the idea of free designs. Maybe you can design your featured or leisure buildings by yourself in the future. As a social game, there must be more and more interaction. Maybe a party in the city can make a closer relationship among friends. Or maybe a wedding ceremony can create a love affair between two person.

In conclusion

You will own a free city in Social City. The only thing you need to do is to use the given materials to build a unique city according to your imaginations. And then, share your own virtual city.

Imagine evony got together with farmville and threw in some storyline and you have Rockage. Combining build & conquer elements with your more relaxed levelling up of a farm. This allows you to supplicate your empire with your very own crops under your control!

You are able to level up your buildings to unlock new features, while researching technologies and raising a mighty army to crush your opposition. The best way to ensure a bit of a boost is to join a tribe, allowing you to take advantage of safety in numbers. Then you are free to go out into the world to capture wildlands and other cities to be able to boost yourself and your empire ever higher!

Obviously this is a game for the more casual player, allowing you to only put in a few minutes play as and when you can, whilst still building up quite a wide influence. However, the more serious player can easily boost their playing experience with mall items to all nigh-continuous play.

Graphically the game appears a lot sharper than other games (such as Evony), with imagery fitting to the time period it’s set in. All graphics keep pretty cartoony, however it fits pretty well with the light-hearted nature of the game as a whole.

There is plenty of play time here, allowing you to expand your empire for as long/as far as you’d like. You can even conquer the capital city of each region, allowing you to become supreme overlord of the area. If that isn’t enough of a lure to get you levelling, I don’t know what is!

It’s pretty easy to get lost playing this game. You think you’ll take a look, then you complete 5 quests in as many minutes. The whole thing just snowballs in this way, with more and more quests becoming available and being completed as you go along. Before you realise it, you have a thriving empire and feel guilty for leaving it alone!

It’s a promising game (only in the pre-beta stages at the time of writing) but it will definitely need to reach further before it truly rivals some of the big players in this market already. However I have the feeling the current version is merely a foundation to build more features upon.

Editor’s Note: Rockage Online has just been released on Facebook.com. Since it’s still in Alpha Stage, the developer told us they would like you to participate the Alpha Testing. They would like to hear your opinions and ideas. You can write down your review here on Rockage Online page of Facebook.com; you can also give Rockage Online your rate on our sister site: F2pGames.com.

Recently, a lot of gaming friends are talking about the games coming from gPotato. Beside Allords, Aika has attracted our editors’ interests too. Here is a piece of news that Aika is finally to be released!

Sunnyvale, CA—January 26^th, 2010 Gala-Net, Inc., a leading free-to-play online game publisher, has announced today its first Closed Beta Test (CBT) for Aika Online in the North American market. The first CBT will run from February 3^rd through February 9^th and will allow players to play all 5 nations, all 6 classes, and levels 1 through 30.

Aika Online is an epic fantasy MMORPG developed by JoyImpact, creators of Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent.  Five nations vie against one another for control of Arcan, waging war on a scale never before seen in an MMORPG.  Nations hurl themselves against one another in massive castle sieges, relic thefts, and customized battlegrounds.  Each nation is ruled by a player, the Lord Marshal, whose supreme power is supported by a regime of guilds.  Preeminence is an uncertain throne, however, as nations may ally together to usurp the ruling kingdom and guilds may conspire to overthrow the ruling council.  Players take a pivotal role in this drama as they choose one of six classes, each of which undergoes multiple evolutions, and are assisted by their Pran—an intelligent, sassy fairy familiar which supports them in all their endeavors.  Aika’s gameplay innovations have not gone unnoticed.  The Korea Game Industry Agency (KoGIA) awarded Aika the prestigious 2009 Best of Show: Prime Minister’s Award, Player’s Choice: Best Online Game, and Best Game Design & Scenario.

“Aika Online represents many tremendous advancements for PvP-centric MMORPGs.  The game engine has been custom designed to support 2,000 simultaneous players in a single, real-time battlefield—a remarkable technical achievement.  Players choose to become a citizen of one of five nations, where they can siege each others’ capitol fortresses, raid rival nations’ enchanted relics, and compete in a variety of warfare scenarios.  Not only must players manage these tactical objectives, but they must also remain vigilant of greater strategic goals.  Players determine multinational alliances, the workings of their nations’ economies, and the governance of their citizens.  Beneath these innovative elements, Aika contains the core features of a premier MMORPG: dungeon instances with multiple difficulty settings, raids, a comprehensive crafting system, and an immersive storyline with over 1,000 quests.  We look forward to debuting Aika’s deep and unique world to Western players!” – Patrick Paik, Marketing Manager, Gala-Net, Inc.

Users can sign up for the Closed Beta at http://aika.gpotato.com.

About Gala-Net

Founded in 2004, Gala-Net, Inc. together with its European subsidiary, Gala Networks Europe, is a leader in the thriving free-to-play online gaming industry in the western market.  Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Gala-Net’s diverse service portfolio includes Flyff, Rappelz, Luna Online, Tales Runner, Allods Online, Aika Online, and Heroes of Gaia.  Through the gPotato Game Portal (http://www.gpotato.com), gamers can play any of Gala-Net’s games for free, as well as buy in-game currency and virtual items for any of its games.

Recently a lot of things happened to Chinese MMORPG industry. As you may know SNDA has aquired Gold Cool in China not long ago – Gold Cool is the game developer for Magic World Online (http://mwo.enjoymmo.com) which has already been published in English. Years ago, some of you should have tried that 2D game, with 2.4G size of the game client.

Today, Gold Cool brings you a whole new 3D MMORPG called: Magic World Online II. Only a few people are able to get access to this period of testing, which is called: Expert Testing. We are lucky that we finally get an account.

There are two classes available right now. So we pick a panda as our main character to explore the world.

The first a few of quests are really just so so. NPC just told you to hunt some mobs outside and report to another NPC. But what attracted us most is the graphics. The whole style really looks like a game imitating Diablo III, not World of WarCraft. We have believe that the designers and artists of this game are hug fans of Blizzard Games. Let’s check some screenshots out to find some clues about this.

As you can see from the above screenshot, when you reach Lv.10 you are able to aquire Main Quest. The quests settings are just like that in Diablo II, Scene1, Scene2…Chapter 1, Chapter 2…

When playing in the Dungeons, you will have a strong feeling of playing a 3D Diablo. This quest was designed to kill 10 mobs and get a special item from the deep dark cave. The numerical settings are fine because we didn’t die during this quest. But the worrying or we can say the previous concept of “teaming in Dungeons is a must” looks like unnecessary. This gives us another concept: Don’t judge this game as an usual MMORPG.

Since we haven’t explored far enough in this game, but let’s take a look at some screenshots first. The game is still in early alpha stage, but we can already sense the potential of this game. Since SNDA has aquired this game, we think SNDA will enter the North American market soon.

But the the part concerning us is the grinding. It’s true that almost every MMORPG is grinding based, but if you want to penetrate a market only by grapics and acting like a copycat isn’t the best way. We hope to see more self-innovation in this game. As far as we can tell from the current official website, all gaming systems are the same.

Note: The following article is made based on Talisman Online Chinese version. There might be some version gaps between Chinese version and English version, but we are sure that all reasonable and great elements from Chinese version will be introduced into English version.

Currently in China, the Chinese version of Talisman Online has become more and more popular. As most of the players know, the Tailisman Online is made by the group of guys who procuded Zhen Feng Shen several years ago. But the company went bankrupt due to some issues. While the team, together with Mircale Castle, grouped together and made Talisman Online in English market first, and then introduce its Chinese version in China.

Judging from Zhen Fengshen, the first product they have made, the item system, skill systems, graphic effects and power-leveling system are the most attractive key elements for all gamers. The CEO of Miracle Castle Ltd., is a hardcore gamer which definitely knows what players want. So let’s take a look at Talisman Online and let’s see what makes it a big hit in both English market and Chinese market.

1. Client Size

The client size of Talisman Online is around 250M. Such a tiny client can reduce the loss of the conversion from signing up to entering the game. As we know most of 3D game clients are over 3G or 4G, such sizes definitely bring the distribution problems for the product. Will the small client causes low graphics and other losses to the games? Definitely no.

2. Graphics

In 2007, when I first saw Talisman Online chinese version, I was totally shcoked by its graphics effects within such a small client. There are not so many houses, buildings in the game, which reduced the work of art designers as well as the Chinese themed element in the game. The skill effects are the most important to players and they handled it pretty well in Talisman Online too. Attacking is the most pleasant thing in the game since you can enjoy the effects of each skill you are using. It also makes grinding not a pain in the game. The view of the game is not a full 3D view but that is good for all kinds of gamers, since over 60% of the players will faint for full –3D games. Color rendering for graphics is also the best that I have ever seen – sometimes you don’t need a reasonable explaination for that why here we should use deep dark color and there we should use light color, but the joyful of seeing it and enjoying it. This is also the key between a natually born designer and an aquired designing learner.

3. Marketing

Marketing? Yes! We have seen a closely marketing bound game here. There are a lot of marketing activities in quests. For example, you have a series quests of adding friends to gain good items. Maybe I want to solo but where the reward is great enough, I will add those people I don’t even know, or accepting their requests. As first I was thinking it was only a method to get my rewards. But during the later play, I have really made friends of some of them in my friend lists – playing instances together, teaming together etc. Another example is that, when I grow to level 20, I have a quest of inviting other friends into the game and I will get super items. Most of the company do it outside the game, and made it very diffuclt in order to reduce “alts” and control the economy.

4. Temptation

If you stay online for another 5 minutes, you will get a mount! If you make your level +2, you will get elite equipment. We can see this kind of settings in game everywhere. People are greedy. Sometimes they actually just download the game for a try, never thinking of staying here. But the natural esense of the human will force him to stay and claim those items maybe he doesn’t even want. The longer he stays, the more addctive he will be.

5. Newbie Village

Most of the games out there having a lot of factions, so that they bring a lot of newbie villages. What’s the benefit of it? Scattering people around and make the game a Massive Single Online Role Playing Game? In Talisman Online, there are only 1 newbie village. All people are gathering there and you will feel the game is crowded even the actualy number of concurrent users is not that high. They have also put the important NPC there so that advanced players need to go back to this village from time to time. Newbies will be fasinated when they see advanced players’ costumes and skill effects. Advanced playes can help the newbies with quests and answer their questions.

6. Items

Currently most of the game item systems are copying World of Warcraft (sorry for mentioning this game again, lol). But is this kind of item system the best one? Definitely not. So far, Conquer Online item system is the most reasonable and attractive system that we have evern seen. From the investment part, you don’t want to drop your items when your character grow up. You want to invest a thing that you can use for your whole life. In talisman, every dollar you invest will not go waste. Three kinds of items will grow with your characters. But we also found that the fun we have in Zhen Fengsheng is lost, that is when you grind outside in ZFS, you will find a lot of items dropped, each item has different elements and attributes. If Talisman Online can bring this back to the game, it will definitely last long the enjoyment of hunting mobs.

7. Numerical Balance

The numerical balance in Talisman Online is really nice. At your level, you are reasonable to do things fitting your level. You can also go to challenge the instances all by your own – instances have different scenes. You might be able to deal with mobs in the first scene, but it will cost you a lot of HPs or dollars if you want to explore dungeon deeper. At least you will team up with others and explore the instances together. Without a careful numerical engeneer, it’s really hard to balance the game like this. We would like to express our thanks to the hard working guys behind the scene.

8. Timing

Most of the companies are using the “Following Strategy”. They always want to be the first one to do something, but they never did it so they turned themselves into the follower. Once they saw the success of ther other people, they just think they can copy and follow, without any hesitation. Will they succeed? Sometimes they will, but 99% will lose the battle. Talisman Online is the first tiny client, awesome graphics, marketing embeded, temptation everywhere game. That is also the basic elements for its success. In the year of 2007, overall there aren’t strong titles out there in the market being released. Comparing those normal, average games, Talisman Online will win.

If you would like to check the game and become another addctive gamer, just click here to visit their official website and enjoy the fun of a real mmorpg, not the crap from those silly aquired designers. Fmmorpg.com can always find the best games for the gamers since our editors are truly gamers and natural game deisngers.

A lot of gamers are playing Runes of Magic right now – actually we have no idea whether they are fasinated by the desining of sites, or the gameplay itself. Comparing that game to King of King 3, both games are made by Taiwan companies but King of King 3 is much much better. But, King of King 3 is not introduced in English yet.

King of King, was known to all gamers in the early of 21st century. After the releases of King of King, King of King II, Larger, the developer of KOK series have just released KOK3 in Taiwan.

Giant Online, we have also introduced this game to you guys. The developer of Giant Online also participated in the game designing of KOK3 since Larger sold the license of China mainlaind to it. We can see that in KOK3, there are a lot of similarities of Giant Online, especially the dancing ground, mini-games etc.

It is said that KOK is made based on a very well written novel. There are totally 7 gods in the world and they fight each other etc… We will left the game background apart since all games out there have a background with stupid stories, trying to let the readers smell a sense of history just as in World of Warcraft.

The game has autopath system, instances, casual gaming, and complicated items system. It has great avatar systems as well. For more details, we will report this game in our following reports. Let’s take a look at some screenshots first.

We don’t know how many of you know about the history of Genghis khan. If you are interested in researching his history, you can find information on the internet pretty easily. Today we are going to introduce Genghis Khan Online to you.

Genghis Khan Online is a 3D MMORPG based on the history of Genghis Khan. You need to download around a 700M game client and then install the game. After a few auto patches, you will see the log-in interface of the game. The background music you are hearing is composed by a very famous Chinese musician called GuoFeng. After logging in and creating your character, you are going to begin your own adventure in this fascinating world.

People regard Genghis Khan Online as a dark horse in the current Chinese MMORPG market. Currently it has over 10 server groups and over 200,000 CCU players. The game has several interesting features:

a. The whole game is historically based, so that you will find every quest, every structure, and every NPC fits in with this theme.
b. We always regard the people of Khan as being born with an excellent knack for training horses. So the horse mount system in game is definitely a key feature: once you get level 10, you are able to raise your own horse. Horses have different qualities and skills. You need to treat your horse well so that you can give a lesson to your enemies.
c. Nation war is a sparkling feature in this game – sure every game has a war of some kind right now;
d. Instances are designed carefully and are welcomed by all gamers right now – endless quests, endless instances.
e.  The rune system is the most complicated one in this game. You must heard of mahjong. Designers have used mahjong tiles as the runes in the game. Runes will grant your equipments with mighty effects and of course, great power as well.

We will follow up this game in our future reports and today let’s take a look at those stunning screenshots.

One more interesting issue out there with this game is, people from Changyou(US) made the accusation that the Kylin Software is stolen their Dragon Oath engine. They are fighting with each other in China and currently there isn’t any result yet. But as gamers, who cares? All we need is a playable game, good service and an excellent community! We believe this game will be introduced into English because the war between Kylin Software and Changyou(US) is everywhere!