SilkRoad Online PC
Another representative of the Asian MMORPG, created by Korean development company Joymax, responsible for such titles as Atrox or Age of Wonderers.
SilkRoad Online Release Date PC
01October2005
developer: Joymax publisher: Joymax Official website
game language: English
The world of SilkRoad is largely divided into 2 regions. One is the world on the basis of actuality and history of Chan'an, Tunhuang, Hotan, Teheran, Baghdad and Constantinople which were the major trading pathway crossing from east to west, and the other is the fantasy world from Takla Makan to Hotan, Gollyun Mountain, Himalayas and Cheonchukguk (India) which lie south and north.
Both themes cross over east-west and south-north and have been completed into the fantasy SilkRoad world with coexistence of actuality and fantasy.
1. Journey to the Oriental culture
The journey to the Oriental fantasy world hard to be selected in the existing on-line fantasy games becomes practicable. Welcome to the journey to the genuine Oriental fantasy world created from mysterious Chinese ancient fables, or thoughts like Taoism and Buddhism.
2. Mysterious and fantastic adventure world
It is nothing more pleasant than the journey to the friendly adventure world contacted through the books or literatures. You can make a adventure travel in prospect of a get-rich-quick as a treasure hunter who explores various adventurous places come on the world famous literatures like Arabian Night's Entertainment.
3. Gods' world
The question about gods has been one of the eternal assignments since now. From the past, the gods have been the object of not only awe but also challenge. Would you become the scholar who tries to find the traces of gods located all over the world and be anguished with the relation between gods and human?
The SilkRoad on-line, which the European western fantasy, the Chinese eastern fantasy and the new Islam fantasy based upon the abundant cultures and legends of China, Islam and Europe.
The episode-pattern scenario is written in the background of mythologies and legends of a lot of countries including Xiyouji, Arabian Night's Entertainment and Greek mythology. The player often flies about with the magic carpet, see the Mediterranean evening sun or fight desperately with ghosts in crossing over Huang He River. On the basis of such a variety of scenarios, you can take pleasure in the inimitable quest each time with the feeling of seeing one-act play.
Beyond the general guild pattern community where familiar people come together, organizing the community with various objects is available. The organizations include the town community centering around the oasis, merchant group for the compensation trading, burglar guild that the burglar players are gathered and hunter guild to protect the justice. The confrontations among various communities elicit the exciting showdown composition.
Like the Chinese characters who use the flying walk to float on the water surface and move leaving an afterimage, the European characters to use the power of Greek gods like Zeus or Apollo and the Islam characters to freely control the power of lamp elves, the fresh and unique skill which cannot have been seen in the existing games get unfolded.
You need not enjoy weary battle any longer thanks to the speedy play reminding the spectators of action game through the chain attack system thrusting, chopping and swaying actions, the speeding character through the spirit gauge and incisive attack effect. Enjoy yourself over the exciting battle in the strain and thrill with the feeling like the action game.
The presentation of splendid world can be directly shown in this game, like the monster who come out in the swung grass, the burglars who come running with kicking up a dust, a blinding forest with a smoke, a dangerous donjon full of the machine equipment and the natural environment like total eclipse and lunar eclipse.
The delicate dramatics presented grass naturally swung or lapel waved by the direction of the wind in the consderation of the action of the player through the dynamic animation. As the character which the motion blending technique is applied to can express simultaneously more than 2 actions like shaking the hands on the walking, the realistic action can be made through the movement similar to those of human.
The SilkRoad adopts the broad world from China to Europe as a background. However, the waiting time for the loading is not generated in the middle of the general game play, in spite of move extensive map connecting the Silk Road or exploring the donjon. In addition, the SilkRoad provides respective users with the optimum manipulating environment through the bi-directional interface of mouse and keyboard, and various interface skin supports.
Last updated on 10 December 2007
Game mode: massive online multiplayer Multiplayer mode: Internet
User score: 8.2 / 10 based on 1179 votes.
Pre-release expectations: 9.4 / 10 based on 113 votes.
Age restrictions SilkRoad Online: 16+