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China Game to Launch Open Beta Testing for ‘Warage’

2008-09-09 17:32 3439

SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 9 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Game, the leading group of self-developed online games in China, today announced its original three-dimensional (“3D”) massively multiplayer online role-playing game ("MMORPG"), “Warage”, will enter into an open beta testing on 10th September. With a simple registration process, players can instantly enter into the relaxing and aesthetic world of the Three Kingdoms era in “Warage”.

On May 7, China Game announced its scheduled timetable for the launch of “Warage”, followed by the successful closed beta testing and commercialization of the game on June 30 and August 5 respectively. The open beta testing version of “Warage” will be a stable, complete and well-balanced quality 3D game, in which players will be able to enjoy the enviable pleasure of fighting in ancient warfare. In addition to the entertaining contents of the previous versions, this updated version will present such long-awaited features as game instance, monster-game-point card system as well as significant enhancement of the game numerical design.

What is more promising is that the open beta testing version of “Warage” will come with a “monster-game-point” system, a brand new and unprecedented billing plan, by which players will be rewarded with appropriate point cards once they finish the game’s specified tasks to destroy a monster. The more monsters are killed, the more awards will be given, including a game point-card worth 100,000 taels!

“As China Game’s first product in the market since its establishment, “Warage” underlines the impressive execution power of our teams. Combining China Game’s outstanding proprietary 3D game development expertise, market-oriented operational strategies as well as the valuable inputs from the players during the previous testings, “Warage” in its open beta testing version can now totally reflect the requirements and expectations of the players for the game,” said Ms. Queenie SIU, CEO of China Game. "The experiences that we gather from the launch of “Warage” will give us more confidence in developing and launching our next game in the following quarter. We look forward to the continuing support and feedback from the supporters of our games.”

Eight must-try features of the open beta testing version of “Warage”:

1. monster-game-point card;

2. unique game instance;

3. more powerful equipments;

4. battle elephants;

5. treasure box with unlimited enhanced skills;

6. newly-designed tasks;

7. a new in-game currency exchange system;

8. optimized combat system to make PK more fun!

About China Game

Headquartered in Shanghai and a member of Finet Group, China Game aims to be a leading group brand in China’s online game market. The group now possesses an established game development centre in Hangzhou with more than 200 experienced designers, artists and programmers, and a seasoned operation team based in Shanghai to service the entire China market.

China Game envisions bringing China’s self-developed games to the world. It is the group’s core focus to enhance its development capabilities and inspire innovation to achieve industry excellence in the global market. Empowered by its accumulated technological strengths, China Game has three self-developed MMORPGs in the short-term game pipeline, all to be launched on China Game’s interactive entertainment platform ( http://www.lyjoy.com ). It plans to launch three to five new titles in the following year. China Game targets to reach an aggregate of over one million concurrent users for all its games.

In conjunction with its efforts to source more domestic and overseas quality games, it plans to set up additional R&D centers to form a group structure with "multi-R&D sites and integrated operations in Shanghai."

For more information, please visit our corporate website http://www.cgamegroup.com and game platform http://www.lyjoy.com .

About Finet Group Limited

Founded in 1998 and listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKSE stock code: 8317), Finet Group Limited ("Finet") is a leading Internet company in Greater China possessing the popular financial portals, "finet.hk" and “caihuanet.com”. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Finet has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen specializing in the Internet and financial businesses.

Finet Group has seized the opportunity to enter into China’s high-growth Internet industry especially in the online game segment, while rapidly expanding its financial information business in the mainland. In 2007, the group successfully acquired a game company in Hangzhou and integrated its outstanding R&D resources and a top-class online game development team with state-of-the-art engine technologies. In April 2008, Finet Group established China Game as the group company holding its online game business, marking a milestone of Finet’s online game strategy.

About “Warage”

Developed with China Game’s proprietary 3D game engine, "Warage" is an innovative 3D online game developed by a hundred-person team for three years. Based on the historical background of the Three Kingdoms period, the game is adapted from classic romances that took place at that time. "Warage", representing a rebirth of traditional China’s cities, characters and battlefields, gives players an opportunity to experience what the Three Kingdoms heroes strategized in a move to dominate the country.

With its unique innovative capacity, Fengyun game studio under China Game developed "Warage" as the first 3D game with intelligent navigation in the virtual world in which gamers can have direct accesses to tasks, NPCs, monsters and zones through hyperlinks. The game features wonderful traditional Chinese painting style and portraits and is full of Chinese national characteristics. "Warage" breaks through the limitations of traditional online games, and enables gamers to immerse into the interesting and exciting epic with its powerful PVP settings, magnificent scenes of RVR state-to-state war and sophisticated military system.

Official website of “Warage”: http://zz.lyjoy.com

Official forum of “Warage”: http://zzbbs.lyjoy.com

Download “Wargae”: http://zz.lyjoy.com/download.htm

About “Swordsman-Plus”

Set against a backdrop of the restless swordsman world at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, “Swordsman-Plus” is an MMOPRG featuring Chinese chivalry and justice. With a strong cultural background, the game offers a choice of four Kung Fu groups -- Riyue, Shushan, Shaolin and Wuyue -- for players to join. The game boasts of rich contents, distinctive disguise system, a well-established Wuxia story line, multiple game upgrade techniques, dynamic facial expression and emotion of game characters, different attack systems of each Kung Fu group, as well as magnificent city scenes, defensive routes on a comprehensive map and traditional Kung Fu skills, allowing players to experience unsurpassed amusement in a true virtual world.

About “Tang Dynasty II”

“Tang Dynasty II” is a 2.5D self-developed online game blockbuster featuring Chinese traditional culture based on the wars that took place in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. With detailed ancient China map and classical background music, the game relives the Tang Dynasty’s prosperity of over a thousand years ago. It embodies over 30 distinct game systems which will deeply impress every Chinese gamer with its triggering task system, history simulation system, plot-driven story development model, Sui and Tang Dynasties’ unique official rank system, fantastic riding system, Chinese traditional Kongfu system and Taoism system, among others.

Source: China Game
Keywords: Entertainment
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