Recent released Chinese MMORPGs in China

2007.04.19 10:22 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

1. Tianxia II (http://tx2.163.com)

2. Heaven Dragon Online (http://tl.sohu.com/)

So recently we will talk about these two titles. Don’t walk away:)

TianXia II

2007.04.19 9:34 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Hello guys, you haven’t seen me for quite a long time right? Haha, sorry for kept you waiting for the latest article. Recently I am busy with setting up a game company. Yes, I quitted tqdigital already.

Today I will bring you a brief introduction of TianXiaII, which was made by Netease, largest internet portal and leading site in China, it also can be found in NASDAQ.

Tian Xia II is a 3D game, which is basiclly copied from World of Warcraft. But it’s definately a Chinese version. You can not name your character in English and numbers, which means you can only make a Chinese character name for it. Commonlly in battle, when you lose HP, numbers will come out over your head, but here, not numbers, it’s Chinese “One, two, three..”. You can also find a very Chinese NPC: Earth Grandpa in game, you can ask him for directions. You can also set up booth there by a very cute ghost named “Lian Cai Ghost”.

I did not want to get into the details since I only played that game for a little time. But graphics are pretty good here. Here are some screenshots:

Happy Lunar New Year!

2007.02.17 5:51 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Tomorrow will be the Lunar New Year. We wish all MMORPG players a happy new year and best luck in the coming PiG Year!

In the coming year, we will introduce more and more free MMORPGs and Chinese MMORPGs to you. To us, the coming new year is a challenge and also an oppertunity.

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!
BEST WISHES

FMMORPG TEAM

Review of FengYun from Aurora Technology

2007.01.31 8:33 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

How many of you used to play MU Online? If you’ve played that MMORPG, you will be attracted by its graphics and equipment. That game is old, but people still remember that and many private servers are hold for MU. Today I will give a little bit report on FengYun, a game made by Chinese company called Aurora Technology which is located in ChengDu city. It’s really like MU.

Amazing Equipments

The basic impression of this game for me is that, it’s a game designed based on three games: World of Warcraft, On the journey, MU.

Graphics:

This games looks like 3D, but actually it’s 2.5D. You can not adjust camera but it’s not a problem. The only problem that I encountered in playing was that you can not see your character when he/she moves in the shadow of the trees. It’s very neat and you can also find your footsteps fading while running. Effects of equipment are really nice, shinning all the round. When you are under the water, you can swim.

Classes:

It is like MU, there are totally 3 classes: Warrior, Taoist(Mage) and Archer. And you can be a Sword Warrior or Spear warrior; Fire Taoist or Water Taoist; Arrow Archer, Crossbow Archer or Nurse Archer. Currently the classes are balanced though some Taoist in forum claimes that the new updates weakened Taoist, but all we know is that Taoist are too strong at the beginning. BTW, only Archer is the girl looking character. It’s interesting that you need to be verified through webcame of the GMs to make sure you are a true girl. Once your identity is confirmed, you can learn nurse skills to be a Nurse Archer and complete some certain quests.

Skills:

Since each class has two ways to train, so skills are totally different. If you want to be a Sword Warrior, then normally it’s impossbile to be an excellent Spear Warrior. In leveling up skills, all you need is Vigor, which can be obtained from killing monsters and completing quests. But you can’t gather so much Vigor as you think, so you need to make good distribution of your Vigor and think carefully which skills are needed while which are not.

Quests:

There are loads of quests in game. You can level up by doing the quests very easily. You can touch off a quest by getting a quest item dropped by the monster; you can do the circulated quests for hunting; you can complete transportation quests by escorting goods and gain a lot EXP…. Some quests are boring, while some quests will give you some surprise.

Gameplay:

The gameplay of this game is not bad. Since I am only lvl 30, currently my feeling is that: It’s funny and sometimes you will get surprise. When you fight with monsters and all of a sudden, you will find a Boss full of precious items; You can suddenly come across a treasure box or a bag dropped from the mosnters. When you are lucky enough and find something valuable, this information will be broadcasted in all the server and make you famous. 

Economy:

In Snow FieldIt’s not easy to gain a lot of in game money. And currently in game money is hard to gather and sometimes you will be worried about the in game money rather than purchased points. You can purcahse some items from the company but those stuff do not dominate anything. For example, if you want to upgrade your equipment in the game, you can not purcahse materials from the shop directly but to purchase from the hard working players. So some paid players complain in official forum saying they can not get what they want in the game, which is pretty fair to the unpaid players. So basically the economy in this game is good and balanced.

Equipment:

You can no upgrade the level of your equipment. You can change your equipment when you get to 10. 20. 30…etc. You can also get your equipment blessed by using stones/gems. Currently I didn’t see any socket items, and there isn’t any information on that in official website. The success rate is marked on each stone, so you will know the rate clearly. But once you failed, your item is gone.

My current conclusion:

What’s promising:

It’s a good game for killing time, beautiful design and interesting gameplay, balanced economy and good PK setting. You can play well by paying nothing.

The pratfalls:

Lag. When I see other players around me, or casting spells around me, I do feel lag. Hopefully they can solve this problem in not long future. You can not make a female warrior, female taoist or male archer, that is no good either.  Maps are a bit crowded and monsters need to implimented more.

If you can read Chinese, you can click here to visit Official Chinese website: http://www.fy0.cn

Top 10 Online Game Award in Chinese Market, 2006

2007.01.13 12:34 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Recently, QQ.com made a top 10 Online Games and Companies voting in China, and during months of time, finally the result is out. Fmmorpg.com will introduce more of the top 10 games to the world. Because of the earthquake and bad connection, we did not update fmmorpg.com for quite a long time, please excuse us.

Ok, here we go!

Most Popular Online Game of 2006:

1. Ask Tao

2. Eudemons Online

3. World of Warcraft

4. HuaXia

5. Popo Cardin

6. On the journey

7. QQ Legend

8. Perfect World

9. Go to the west Online

10. Audition Season 2

Most Popular Free Online Game of 2006:

1. Ask Tao

2. Eudemons Online

3. On the journey

4. QQ speed

5. Popo Cardin

Most Popular Online Casual Game of 2006:

1. QQ game

2. Popo Cardin

3. QQ pet

4. Mahjong (Lack of 1 person)

Most Popular MMORPG of 2006:

1. Ask Tao

2. Eudemons Online

3. World of Warcraft

4. Go to the West Online

5. Perfect World

Most Anticipated Online Game of 2006:

1. QQ Sanguo

2. Cabal Online

3. Zero Online

4. SUN

5. Swordman III

6. Special Force

7. Heaven Loong Eight

8. FengYun

9. TianXia II

10. Titi Ball

Most Popular New Online Game of 2006:

1. Ask Tao

2. HuaXia II

3. Eudemons Online

4. Martial Arts

5. ShuiHu Q Legend

Best Art Designing MMORPG of 2006:

1. Ask Tao

2. Cabal Online

3. World of Warcraft

4. SUN

5. ShuiHu Q Legend

Online Game Companies of 2006:

1. ShengMingXuan.

2. GuangYu Hua Xia.

3. The 9

Best Customer Service of Online Game Companies of 2006:

1. Tencent

2. TQdigital

3. 9YOU

Top 10 People in Game Industry of 2006:

1. Chen Tianqiao

2. Zhu Jun

3. Gao Suhua

4. Chi Yufeng

5. Ding Lei

6. Ma Huateng

7. Xu Yunbo

8. Shi Yuzhu

9. Yang Fengmin

10. Wang Zijie

Dragon Throne Online (3D)

2006.12.15 11:34 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Hey guys, I haven’t updated this site for a long time due to a lot of work. Today let us talk something about Dragon Throne Online. In previous articles, I mistook Phoniex Dancing as Dragon Therone Online as they are produced by the same company, I am sorry for that.

Project Definition

A Massively Multiplayer Online Strategic Role-Playing Game —3D MMOSRPG.
Different from the other games in the market, you can find an extra “S” in the above which is the abbreviation for strategy. It means “strategy, tactics, and military science” in “DT Online”.
Although a mainstream style online game, “DT Online” has some attractive features and innovative design ideas. Players can not only have fun in individual quests, but can also work together with other players as a team for the more dangerous and high priced quests. No matter whether in a battle array, an arena, a city war or a state war there is always an opportunity for players to demonstrate their wisdom and strategies.

Design Brief

Technology—Advanced
“DT Online” is the first complete 3D game that has ever been developed by Object Software. It adopts the OmSDK, which is a kind of game development environment, which is also self-developed by Object Software.
The GFX-3D Graphics Engine is the First Commercialized Game Engine in China. According to the special network and hardware environment in China, it optimizes its functions. As a result, it can perform well even on computers with relatively low configuration.
Server Infrastructure—Magnificent
The multi-server framework in “DT Online” sets up a large and seamless game world that provides reality to the Three Kingdoms World.
Background – Three Kingdoms
The game is set in the famous period of the Three Kingdoms from about AD180 to AD280 and the story is taken from the famous historical novel “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” Which is one of the four Chinese classics.
The period of the Three Kingdoms has a deep and broad influence in Chinese social life and even on its whole culture. This provides a solid market foundation for the game.
Graphics – Realistic
With a strong realistic style and the luxurious sound and light effects, “DT online” builds a realistic Three Kingdoms world for players. All the numerous equipment, weapons, properties, and picturesque buildings and scenes make the world appear in the same brilliance as it had at the time!

Class

There are totally 6 classes in this MMORPG. They are close fighers: Paladin, Warrior; Distant Fighters: Archer, Thrower; Magic Skill Fighters: Warlock and Adviser.

The paladins in armor are masters of various weapons and defense. Being strong, quick-minded, and brave, they are unequaled in the Three Kingdoms period! Though not so strong as paladins, warriors have cast-iron armor to make up the disadvantage. They have the most excellent assassination skill with two-edged weapons. The enemies are their specialties. From them you will understand what a real heroine is. Archers do not use heavy armor and few weapons are suitable for them. It may make people feel worried for them. Just take it easy! The beauties have mastered archery so well that they can kill enemies easily even without coming near. They do not fight at close-quarters as warriors do, but they can’t be ignored. Throwers come from the Minority People in the West who are skilled at throwing knives, javelins and darts. They also know archery as well as archers do. Throwing needs their whole strength, so they have as strong a body as paladins. In order to look for the unwanted magic arts, warlocks travel a lot and experience life and death. That’s why they are extremely courageous and have a deep insight. Enemies are all fearful to fight with them and even get frightened before fighting. Warlocks make common people consider them as omnipotent god-men. Advisers are weak and seldom go into combat, but they are quick-minded. They can make comrades in arms unequaled with their terrific wisdom and strategy. In addition, they know how to improve their teammates’ attack and defense power in combat. Their advice is invaluable.

Let’s talk about Phoenix Dynasty Online

2006.11.26 12:45 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Game Orientation

An MMORPG, with a realistic style of painting in 2.5D, flashing back to the world of the Warring States period of Ancient China, brings you experiences of real historical events, and the scorching conflicts and warfare among the seven vassal states.

Features:
Promotion and restriction between the five elements, various types of fighting skills, historical quests, and
a unique forging system

Design Brief

•2.5D V.S. 3D Graphics
With high quality graphics, the 2.5D graphics outscore other pure 3D games at some levels, but require less hardware resources.

•Sticking to Chinese characteristics
At the beginning of the game design, the aim was to develop an excellent online game, full-featured with abundant Chinese characteristics, and Chinese national cultures.

•Background – Beginning of Warring States Period
The background environment is set in the Warring States period of Ancient China, where the seven vassal states, known as the ‘Seven Heroes of the Warring States’, were engaged in frequent wars to unite the country. Each state war and heroes who appeared in the wars were recorded in history. Meanwhile, this period of Chinese history contributed a significant step in the development process of the country.

•Graphics – Aesthetic and Realistic
Phoenix Dancing brings you the feeling of being right there in the scene through the representation of beautiful and realistic views of riverside towns in South China (State of Chu), a desert city (State of Qin), golden fields (State of Qi and Zhao), and snow-covered northern lands of China.

Character Classes

•There are four classes in all:
Assassin (Adept in long distance attack)
Paladin (Adept in melee attack)
Priest (Adept in healing)
Wizard (Adept in magic arts)

•Each class has a male character and a female character.

•Characters in different class and gender have different five-element system attributes (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth). –For example: A character may be a male paladin, with a Metal attribute under the five-element system.

Game Features

Five-Element System

Phoenix Dancing inherits and improves the highly acclaimed Five-Element Promotion and Restriction system from World of Qin 2 and World of Qin. Furthermore, there is permeating throughout the game the concept of “Gifted 5E”, “Promotion and Restriction Relationship between 5Es”, and the “Training System of 5E Nimbus”. The “Gifted 5E” concept enriches the personal characteristics of each character class. The “Promotion and Restriction Relationships between 5Es” are introduced to the production system so that players can first obtain materials from the monsters and then make the products on their own, while the “Training System of 5E Nimbus” is a process of players drawing nimbus from creatures for energy reinforcement so that they can practice and refine their fighting skills.

5 Elements in the Game

•Career path can choose five elements

•Five elements major skills and minor skills

•Five elements quests to get skill books

•Five elements monster and need relevant restricted element weapon to fight with

•Five elements material to help you forging and get senior level items in the game world

•Five elements suits

•Etc…

Forging System

•The forging system is the core system that underlies the World of Qin series, and is also a key play point in Phoenix Dancing. “Forge” means first collecting some material that can be forged, obtaining the attributes that the material holds according to the 5E promotion and restriction relationships, and then importing them into the final item wanted.

•To understand the principles of forging, you must understand material, proficiency

–Material: Material is collected from dead bodies of animals or rare monsters. You can collect materials for weapons, armor, baldrics, and medicines from all monsters. The monsters of the same type might drop different materials. The quality of the materials have three degrees, including white, blue, and green where the white material is of the poorest quality, and it’s attributes are consequently the poorest.

Proficiency: Proficiency means the ability of the forging skill. You gain your proficiency when you have forged a finished product, at an indefinite amount each time. From lower to higher, proficiency is divided into different ability levels, called “Forging Level”, for which there are ranking tiles for each. The higher your forging level is, the better finished product you will obtain.

Suit System

•The suit is a significant feature in the equipment system of Phoenix Dancing. There are 3 kinds of equipment units that can be combined as a suit with effective suit attributes, these are “Reputation Suit”, “Class Title Suit”, and “Top Class Suit”, with 3 combination forms for each of them, such as a set of 3 units (minor suit attributes), 5 units (middle suit attributes), or 7 units (major suit attributes). A mixture of the above 3 suits units or pure suit units both produce suit attributes.

Mount System Feature

•Have five elements mounts in the game: like – Tiger (Metal), Bull (Wood), Shanyi (Fire), Bear (Earth) etc.

•Mount can add extra attribution for player to protect or fight for players

•Players can fight and PK on the mount

•Mount have different level

Faction System

•Creating factions and faction colonies

•The faction colony upgrades together with the faction it belongs to.

•Creating faction defensive fortification.

•Faction wars over territories.

Basic function for future States Wars

OK, let us take a rest. If you want to watch it’s DEMO, please download it from:
http://www.engputer.com/006video/PD/DEMO.avi

The file is a bit large, so be prepared:)

Perfect World Official Introduction

2006.11.24 12:02 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Perfect World, a fantasy world

Perfect World is a great fantastic 3D online game presented by Beijing Perfect Space-Time Networking Technology Co., Ltd, which the company invested more than 30 million RMB and completed within three years. Starting from a Chinese traditional myth that Pangu (Chinese ancestor) built sky, land and human, the game creates a particularly historical space and brings players into an age-old, mysterious and undiscovered world with epic background and grandiose story contents.

Development with Element 3D engine wholly owned by Perfect Space-Time, 3D seamless huge map, all these give a real 3D space for players. Concept of 3D online game to establish world is introduced firstly. Players will experience great fun of team working and founding world. All these functions enhance interaction between game and players and bring them novel and infinite fun.

Besides, great improvement has been made in game contents, system setup, safeguard, screen and sound effect. The screen effect has reached the top of native-made online games supported by strong technology of the company..

As a wholly home-made masterpiece, the final aim of Perfect World is to be the most excellent online game in domestic online games field, serve players and succeed and develop Chinese culture. Here players’ demands will be placed at first and they will experience unique fun and interest. Perfect World covers many creative elements leading in home and even in the world. For example, the super-large and seamless map completely clears up regional limitation; flying ability of all races and professions makes real 3D war possible; the function that large guilds can build city by themselves brings players great fun of building the whole world in person; private home system enriches the communication between players and making armament lets them possess unique weapon. Besides, there are more system setup like customized image setup, freely-designed fashion system, good friends system excluding the game and rich missions system. Some friendly designs are very interesting too: flying kites and fishing relax players, carriage and yacht offer vehicles for them. All these lead players to appreciate the magnificent scenery in Perfect World.

Perfect World will lead the developing current of online game with its perfect, magnificent scene and unprecedented creative system, succeed and develop Chinese culture, establish first brand of home-made online game and provide players with superior entertainment service.

Official website: http://www.world2.com.cn

Legend of Martial Arts (Wulin2)

2006.11.23 11:48 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Legend of Martial Arts, we used to introduce as Wulin2, is a brand-new RPG online game presented by Beijing Perfect Space-Time Networking Technology Co., Ltd., which the company invested more than 2 billion RMB and completed within 2 years. The game initiates comedic online game mode. Adapted from a popular scene comedic teleplay playing in domestic TV stations– “Unofficial Legend of Knight World”, the same name as this game, and written by famous website writer—Ning Caishen, the game enriches contents, collects various features and becomes a humorous and witty Q version online game.

Legend of Martial Artsis is developed on updating version of Element 3D engine wholly owned by Perfect Space-Time Co., Ltd which makes the screen more fine and beautiful, handles currently all 3D hardware and software technology more freely and reduces effectively the requirements for computer configuration.

As an online game adapted from teleplay and primary present of Beijing Perfect Space-Time Co. in 2006, Legend of Martial Arts should have interesting contents and it succeeds classic dialogs and casts appearance in the teleplay, but also adds numerous innovative features.

 “Unofficial Legend of Knight World” has been familiar by national audiences. Therefore, the game naturally includes those well-known, witty and humorous classic dialogs. Besides, changing face and body is a sole capability of knights. Changing face has great advantages for prying into information or escaping the killing in revenge. Especially when knights remove their disguise and show their real face, how surprised their counterpart is. Every player experiences this when they watch teleplay. Such mysterious technique can make anyone change himself as a knight and even as fierce beast or monster. All these features add much fun for the knight world. In addition, this game includes ornate fashion, complicated guild conflict for grudge and grievance, love and hate, knight reining war horse and galloping on the battlefield and even many interesting events written by Ning Caishen among novel and rich mission systems.

Teleplay–“Unofficial Legend of Knight World” shows players preexistence and this life of every knight, while Online game—Legend of Martial Arts will fetch unprecedented knight legend from an opposite and witty view.

Official website: http://www.wulin2.com.cn  Chinese version

Introduction of ‘The first myth’

2006.11.21 12:54 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Mystical Game Settings

The original materials were drawn from the ancient Chinese classics “Creation of the Gods”

Around the years of 4500 AD., the Yellow Emperor who was known as the ancestor of the Chinese people, the Yan Emperor, and Jiu Li levied their tribes for a battle in Zhuolu of the central plains. Finally the battle ended up with the victory of the tribe of the Yellow Emperor, who unified the central plains thereafter. To reward his men, the leader of the tribe, Ji Xuanyuan conferred godship upon them. From then onwards, the boundary between gods and ordinary men was opened up, and all the Chinese mythical stories originated from there…

A new era started in 1150 AD, when there were believed to be five directions in the human world, and the offspring of Xuan Yuan, Shen Nong, and Chi You lived there.

It was a world of uncertainty and chaos to everyone in that time– The indiscernible Apotheosis Ranking List, the complex Shang and Zhou factions, and the inexpressible interest of the people, all made them far more perplexed…

Mysterious Classes

There are 3 classes in “The First Myth”, Armorman, Warlock and Magician.

Armormen’s attacks are normally physical. They are typical melee attack characters, with their weapons being the one-hand type and the two-hand type.

Warlocks’ attacks are normally magical. They are typical magical characters, with their skills being the Thunder attribute, Earth attribute, Ice attribute and Fire attribute.

Magicians are special. They fight by summoning the ancient beasts. Their magic is the Summoning type or the Debilitating type.

Gameplay for the 3 classes is quite special, and their power is quite equalized.

Appropriate Skills

The skills in “The First Myth” are designed according to the different features of the 3 classes as well as the different historical settings. Armormen possess 16 skills including “Fatal Attack” , “ Miracle Footwork” and so on; Warlocks possess 24 skills including “Combined Force”, “Vigorous Fight”; Magicians possess 18 skills like “ Flowing Wind Strike”, “Cracking Slash”. Moreover, the 3 classes share two life skills in common, “Tearing Slash” and “ Axe Slash”.

According to the different levels, characters of the 3 classes could only acquire the skills by studying the skill book. Gamers can choose the skills according to their different tastes and various demands.

Multiple Weapons and Equipment

The weapon & equipment system of “The First Myth” includes weapons and defence. Weapons include swords, blades, rods, axes, whips, halberds, magic swords, and flags; Defence includes helmets, hats, armors, armets, robes, gauntlets, boots, girdles and cloaks. Equipment also levels up from White, Blue, Golden, Green to Gold as the gamer is leveled up. Gamers can choose weapons or defence according to their different levels.

Each gamer is also allowed to take 2 treasured items and ride 1 mount. Players of each class can have a mount of his own type. Armormen can ride the Heavenly Beast, Warlocks can summon various flying fowls whilst Magicians boast their fantastic wings.

The abundant weapon & equipment system can easily meet the demands from gamers on the types, patterns, and functions of the equipment.

Diverting Quest System

In “The First Myth”, over one hundred novice quests and primary quests were designed for Armorman, Warlock and Magician. In addition, quests like “Eight-diagram Treasure”, “Eaglewood Delivery” and “Heavenly Fairy” were also elaborated out there to meet the various demands of the gamers

Elements of Chinese historical culture have been integrated into the above mentioned quest system, and what’s more, the newly-added scenarios will certainly lead gamers to a world of mythical smells.

Novel Gameplay

Trading: Gamers can acquire both profit and Exp. by exchanging items, shifting between different cities.

Escort: It’s an exciting team quest. Any gamer above level 30 can receive this quest and, after receiving an Escort Wagon, with the assistance of other teammates, s/he is going to break the blockade imposed by the Lu-lin Men, and get the reward if the Escort Wagon is successfully carried to Chaoge eventually.

Mining: After learning the skill “Tearing Slash” and gaining a mining tool, a gamer can start mining in the Bronze Mountain where s/he may acquire some raw materials and medicine.

Apprenticeship: Any character below level 30 can be an apprentice to a character above level 50. After s/he reaches level 30 with the help of the mentor, the mentor can receive a certain amount of Apprenticeship Points as a reward.

Marriage: A male character above level 22 can form a team with a female character as long as she is above level 20. And they can finish the wedding by accomplishing a series of quests like courtship, engagement, wedding ceremony and the red-packet delivery.

Stall: To gain some gold, gamers can exchange various items inside the city by setting up a stall.

Powerful Array: This gameplay put an emphasis on team coordination. Usually, a cooperative team can challenge the BOSS, Supreme Hierarch, after they acquired the 4 command tablets. To gain the relevant reward, the team must search for and break the treasure receptacles which the Supreme Hierarch scattered over the map randomly. It’s really a difficult quest because it’s to be finished within 30 minutes and there might also be other rivals to compete with your team.

Self-governed Cities: Gamers of the same nationality, according to their different levels, can decorate the city by setting up buildings of their own.

Ferocious Blue: Each time the common monsters are refreshed, there’s some possibility of occurring a very powerful monster, the Ferocious Blue, who carries abundant treasure and equipment. Gamers can gain a lot if they can beat this monster.

Transformation System: It’s an attractive aspect of the many original gameplay in “The First Myth” After a gamer receives a Transformation Tablet, s/he can transform him/herself into the shape of a monster or even some symbols like “I Love You” or a beating heart.

Offline Refining: This function allows a gamer to continue to refine the pills which help strengthen his/her power even if they are offline.