Hello all, here's my review of this game in it's entirety. I've played this game for over 3 years and I have to say it's had its ups and downs. When I first started playing this game it was something very new. It was fun, the combat system was unique, the graphics and style of the game were awesome, and the idea of using martial arts in an MMO to duel or combat others was just pure fun! The people were nice and the company was greedy but not as greedy as today. Fast forward to today, the Snailgames USA is as greedy as a company as you can get. When you start giving your heavy spenders banning powers, it already says who this company caters to. Not only that, the this toxic community is just borderline psychotic. Disagree with them or PK them in game, you'll find your whole social media splashed out on world chat so you can be publicly embarrassed. Not to mention they will harass you and go well beyond the means of an open pvp game. Recently the game has gone to one server in the last 2 months. 2 months ago the game has 3 servers and now it is down to 1 server since the population is declining rapidly. If you're new to this game or thinking about playing this game, you're way to late to start now. The company is milking players and this game is not worth the harassment these whales will give you. The game is on it's last leg so please save yourself the trouble and protect your wallet!

I've been playing this game for 7 months, so finally I have my thoughts on the game. All games have pros and cons, so I will show my review as such, and you decide if its worth your time. Pros: - Very immersive MMO. - Fun, engaging, and balanced combat, using a paper-rock-scissors system. Combat is clear and understandable, you can read your enemies movements and allies as well. PvP is very enjoyable. - Beautiful art and background music. - Tons of events and things to do: Main quests. Random Encounters. School wars. Script Stealing. Faction events. Escorts. Kidnapping. Instances. Team Practice. Weekly Tourneys. Mount Hua Tourney. and much more. - All of these events are fun and encourage A LOT of interaction with other players. - The game is expanding. There are huge expansions coming up (form china), which includes new factions, extensive gameplay, and even moving the game to a Unreal Engine 3 Environment (maybe 2015). So the future of AoW is still in progress. Cons: - The game isn't Free to play. Its Free-to-try, and Pay-to-Enjoy. Still, I think 9$ a month is cheap for getting everything you need. - Translations are pretty bad. They are at least understandable with good levels of english. - There is some hacking and bots, selling in-game money in third party websites. But this happens in many online games too, so shouldn't be a big problem if you ignore them. - Guides are hard to find. This game is too complex and it's chinese, so its hard for new players. The best guides you will find will be translated guides made by chinese players. Getting into a big guild will also help a lot. - "Ancient" skill sets. These should have never existed in the first place. They are very expensive and hard to get, but those few rich people that pay tons of real cash them will negate the paper-rock-scissors balance in the game, so be warned if you want to be competitive. They DO have counters, but there are very few and require a high level of experience on the game. Conclusion: If you like Chinese Wuxia themed MMO's, and you enjoy Medium/Hard challenges, this is the game for you. PS: Please don't pay listen to reviews where they played for a few hours and say they know about the game. MMO's by nature require more time to fully understand their features and mechanics.

Introduction: A Unique MMO-RPG game system that need "time" to leveling your Hero and have "Open PVP mass-PVP" system in Chinese KungFu era theme. This Series is the NA version and Snail game company take care of it. Game System: +Open PVP that make most of player can express what they want +It have jail system which "bad" people can't do evil too much +It have a life, manufacture, culture, and economic skill which support the Hero +It have Team Practice to "cut" the cultivating time and every round of Team practice will increase ur fatigue +Tons of skill which make u play more and it will come another one +Can marry (get couple benefit), ride horse, swim dive on water or even fly on the air (with "feint" trick) and many more +++ -Most of mob will reset or back to "standby" state if u go/move to "unlucky" area and the mob will replenish it Health to max -Some of Quest is hard to solve due bad translation and direction of quest line Music and Ambient: +Represent the theme Graphic: +Pleasure eyes for the first impression Control: +Lot of hot-key to fill in -Somehow fight system will be bit odd if u have bad connection The Management: +Lot of reward and event -The GM response is kinda slow and unresponsive -Need to be vip to get all the "fun" -New Server = Kill old server My experience with the game: I played this game since June - July. I make char in all server until then i found out the best server for me that is BD ( Blue Dragon server). I had ton of fun in this server. Join a guild, do instance, kill people, sell item from stall, and do life skill (farming tailoring etc). I play with non-VIP status till now in BD server. FYI: BD is the first server. Then it come the GK (Golden Kirin) server which make me depart to that server. I found out the GK server have more active player than BD. Then i do the same cycle like i did in BD. Join guild and do fun thing. I don't know why but the "pressure" to getting better Hero player in this server is so undeniable and i don't have time to play everyday to leveling (make online the char). I decide to be VIP in GK server. FYI: this is the first online game i spend money on it :S And guess what, I make myself more addicted to the game with VIP status. Because is benefit and feature. I am getting addicted to the game time by time. I almost don't know when i must stop play --" Until i run out my VIP status and i "quit" the game temporary. I heard there a lot of system and environment update like weather n etc right before i quit, that make this game even better. I give it 10 point for make me addicted so bad, good job Snail :|