CAMBRIDGE, UK—18 March 2010– Jagex Games Studio, the UK’s largest independent games company, today announced that its first third-party publishing title War of Legends has achieved rapid acceleration in popularity during the game’s beta phase, which launched in January 2010. With hundreds of thousands of players already joining the battle, War of Legends has already significantly changed the landscape of real-time strategy gaming.

“It is great to see so many players flock to War of Legends so soon after its launch and it is especially encouraging to see entire alliances independently migrate from other RTS games to War of Legends” said Mark Gerhard, CEO at Jagex Games Studio.“Jagex has a long standing reputation for offering unparalleled browser-based game play, and War of Legends is no exception to this commitment. With the game’s extensive content, high quality graphics and ease of levelling it is clear to see why so many players have been enticed to the game and we are confident that as the game evolves War of Legends will cement its position as the must play RTS game.”

War of Legends is a flash-based RTS game based on ancient Chinese mythology, which immerses players in a world where they can build vast empires, appoint legendary leaders and form multi-player alliances to reach eternal glory. This rich back-story is a drastic contrast to traditional RTS games that typically have very fragmented or non-existent storylines. The development quality far exceeds that of similar titles currently in the market, and parallels Jagex’s high standard for game excellence, depth of content, graphics and community support.

“The response from the War of Legends community has been overwhelmingly positive” said Mark Gregson, War of Legends’ Community Manager at Jagex.“Players are really enjoying the depth of game play, which is missing from other browser-based RTS games, and our reputation for integrity, community support and high quality gaming has positioned War of Legends as the leading free to play RTS. It has been fascinating to watch as players build up their cities, create alliances and command their armies into battle. Our dedicated community team are planning an ongoing series of in-game events to challenge and test our players and we can’t wait to welcoming more players as they join the War of Legends community.”

War of Legends is available to play for free by visiting www.waroflegends.com.

About War of Legends

War of Legends is a real-time strategy game based on ancient Chinese mythology where players rule empires, manage resources, and command armies to conquer their enemies. The game is free-to-play and is playable directly in the internet browser without any downloads. War of Legends is the first third-party title published by Jagex Games Studio and is available to play for free today by visiting www.WarOfLegends.com .

About Jagex Publishing

Jagex Publishing is a division of Jagex Games Studio, the largest independent games developer and publisher in the UK.

Jagex has developed and self-published over 40 online titles including the world’s most popular free multiplayer online game, RuneScape.com. Jagex’s latest release, War of Legends, is the studio’s first third-part title and the studio has ambitious plans to release multiple titles from third-party developers throughout the year alongside the studio’s own in-house titles.

Jagex– Just About the Game Experience

Jagex Games Studio is a leading independent computer games developer and publisher specialising in the development of high quality online games.

The studio has a long standing reputation for creating the world’s best online games by developing hugely popular, high quality, assessable, free-to-play games and for providing an unbeatable community experience for millions of players around the globe.

Jagex is best known for RuneScape, the three times Guinness World record holder for the world’s largest free-to-play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), and Jagex.com, the studio’s captivate games portal. Jagex currently employs almost 400 people across two Cambridge studios.

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MMO Web Browser Strategy Games (MMORTS) seems very popular these days, Especially in 2010. After collecting some popular online browser strategy games, I found all these are developed by Chinese companies. They are all free to play, and use micro-transaction. Actually, In China, you can get the source code and do a game yourself.

I listed 10 such games, hoping that these games give you some tips to make a game or at least you know what the game offers. The games are all like Evony, even War of Legends is also a Copycat powered by Jagex.

1, Caesary

Caesary Online is a great browser-based game which is completely free to play. Unlike Evony’s naked advertising, Caesary Online have a neat graphics and promotion

Caesary Online

1, War of Legends

War of Legends is a newly released strategy game based on flash technology, with Chinese characteristics. The game is published by UK’s largest browser-based game developer Jagex. Interesting enough, War of Legends is not developed by Jagex, but Shanghai-based UltiZen

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2, Evony

Actually, Evony has become a household word and thus Evony itself becomes the most popular game over the two years. The game is set in Medieval Ages, but that is not like German’s browser game, instead Evony does business

using Micro-transaction and have over 130 servers only In English Version,Although Evony is not the first browser game developed in China, but it is the first successful browser game exported to North America and Europe.

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3, Empire Craft

Empire Craft is not a good game, but it runs heavily advertising campaign, so the game in a short time attracts 100,000 active players. Empire Craft, to my mind, is Copycat of Evony upon Evony’s success exposure. Empire Craft is developed by Oak Pacific Games, which had long and “assiduously followed” the technologies  of the others.

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4, Three Kingdoms Online

Three Kingdoms Online is full of “hackneyed and stereotyped Features”, even you cannot understand what this game offers in you don’t know Chinese Cultures. However, if you have ever played any browser strategy game developed by China, you could possibly get started on the game quickly. What you need to do is create your account, select where you are born, Name your flag and build your city and base.

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5, Lords Online

Lords Online is powered and presented by IGG, which has a remarkable exposure thanks to its PR and Article Team. However, when we review a game, it means a game, bad or good. No any public relation involved.

Lords Online has numerous bugs: you will lose your treasure you toiled  day time,  Laborers caught in waiting status, Keep losing Hero Experience points – keep losing levels, Ranking bug, and much much more… How terrible!

They just changed the code sold byVendors at a Less expensive price and changed the graphics.

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6, The War

Not need to say anything, totally a backward product of China, but seems popular in North America.

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7 WW2 Warfare

WW2 Warfare is set in the Second  World War where you can select three forces to attack. The most important resources is Oil, which is a must to develop your city and train your troops. The game is released in early 2009. So far WW2 Warfare has 5 servers in total.

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8 TransForce

TransForce is an online browser strategy game based on the famous movie the TransFormers, but the developer playcomet independently crafted the game with Chinese characteristics, even you can experience the Hunt System, the wanted system, like Sleeve System in Heroes of Kung Fu. It is very fun.

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9Kingory

Kingory is a not bad game because In China, Kingory signals the beginning of Chinese browser game growth. Currently, Kingory has been licensed to several countries, even the South Korea-based Nexon also gained the license to publish this game.

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10 Nap War

Nap War is owned and operated by SOHO Union International Ltd (SOHO Union).

“Like Evony, Nap War is money-rolling machine, especially the wheel of fortune, nothing more than a gambling machine. We are writing such article not for advertising this game, but warning those who don’t know the real condition and make a mistake taking gambling.

That the similarity among those games are made in China and published across the world. The game is not rated by Gaming Union, nor approved by any laws.

You may not know the fact that China has banned most of such games due to the gambling and false distribution. That is why they are seeking another way to hurt internet users.”

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Check more Chinese browser games.

War of Legends online is a Chinese Browser strategy game or Real time strategy game set in multiplayer model.  The Chinese name of “War of Legends” is 封神无敌 (World of Feng Sheng) published in China on October 18, 2009, and the Vietnam’s beta version was released by Sgame.vn. Yesterday, we covered the English Version of “war of Legends” published bu Jagex, UK-based Browser Game Vanguard and Tycoon, and even the number of Runescape’s online players has been logged down in the Guinness Book of world records. Overnight, Jagex become a  third-party publisher of online browser mmorpg or MMORTS.

War of Legends is an adaptation from a Chinese famous novel Apotheosis of Heroes, or Canonization of Gods (Translated version)

War of Legends Background:

According to legend, The vast ancient China will be faced with a catastrophe upon each millennium. The storyline of War of Legends takes place in BC, between mid-1100, to coincide with the dawn of the millennium catastrophe.  In the Central Plains of China, the war between the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty was fiercely engaged for a prolonged time. This is war between the immortals and Taoists, the Monarch and officials of master and servant, the three religions (Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism) and the nine schools (Confucianism, Taoist, Astrologist, Legalist, Nominalist, Mohist, Diplomatist, Miscellanist and Agriculturist)  and even the ordinary people have been engaged in the surging tide of history.

—————-The Real Developer—————

Founded in 2005, UltiZen is one of China’s largest all-platform game art outsourcing partner and PC game developer.

Exactly, UltiZen is behind War of Legends and Jagex is only a third party that got a licensed franchise to publish in North America and European Countries.

However, with reference to the game background story, War of Legends is a brand-new browser game, and totally new to No-Chinese players. The problem is War of Legends in China has tons of copycats there. Over the past two years, we have seen Evony, TransForce, Empire Craft, Kingory, Three Kingdoms Online, Warrior Legends, Lords Online and much more—published in North America and Europe.

They are using micro-transaction to roll money from innocent players, even the game is set in the browser, is it safe for your personal data?

Well, let’s continue to talk about the similarity :

1, City-building model: Construct command post, tech search. Oh, wait,  I cannot imagine, in Ancient China, there is a university. How weird! It never makes sense.

2, producing resources: Food, Timber, Stone, and Copper, full of platitudes

3, Forming an Alliance, which is really a ridiculous translation. In China, during Shang and zhou Dynasty period, I have never heard of the term “Alliance”

4,Recruiting a legendary hero. (Later you will find your hero will be stuck on the campaign, No one can fix the bug )

5, Daily Task.

6, Virtual Items. (That is the game’s “essence”)， we call this Money-rolling Machine.

7, Go to war.

8, even the characters they are using in game plagiarized Three Kingdoms Period hero portrait. Really does not match with the history.

What is “TWar of Legends” about? I still don’t know. If it means to be a copycat  of a traditional Chinese browser MMORTS, then why did they introduce University in BC time,  ridiculous, funny, weird.  If it is a new browser MMORPG, then why did they copy all of these, No innovative, no original! Sheerly backward!

The whole game feels like a taut game of cat-and-mouse between players.

War of Legends is a newest  massively multiplayer browser based real-time strategy game published Jagex and developed by Shanghai-based Company.

War of Legends is a persistent world free-to-play game and free to play Chinese browser game set in the micro-transactions. If I translate this game, I would like to use Apotheosis of Heroes/Canonization of Gods as the game title, because that would be more close to the original Chinese famous novel.

Using flash, the game has greatly enhanced the loading speed and exquisite and delicate game graphcis.

【Game screen】:

The main screen is a 2D-styled game.  With Chinese architectural style, characters, scenes,  the game’s style has a very strong Chinese style characteristics.

【Game Operation】:

The game is based on the mouse control-oriented and less keyboard shortcuts.

【Features】
1. Classes:
There are three different classes to choose from, namely,  Monk, Seer and  Warrior. They have a different ability and these classes allow players to create a distinctive urban character and the army, and build cities, launch attack to other countries.

2. Turn-based combat (manual and automatic)
War of Legends are  applied into turn-based combat, so that playability is stronger and more easily accepted by the players.  In the fighting, players can battle both manually and automatically.

3. Instances
Like Many of the  similar MMOs, players can challenge a big boss in an instance with their team.

4 【leisure Analysis】
This online game is a city building game, so you need to put more time to develop your city or base.  However, if you invest money, you can grow faster than others.

5 , Overall:

Not bad, but far away from being excellent. Bugs seems not too much.

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The new strategy mmo game titiled War of Legends, is a massively multiplayer Raeal time Strategy war and city-building game based on a Chinese mythology. Basically, the game release in question is a breaking news today, and even the developer did not disclose more infomation about the game’s exact release date.

With reference to the Chinese game success, like Evony, Heroes of Gaia, Heroes of Kung Fu, Jagex’ War of Legends has utilized the  micro-transactions ingame exactly leaned from the Chinese business model to allow players  to buy virtual items, and boost their development and grownup.

War of legends is the first MMORTS that adopts Chinese culture and myth by European game company, which is a blod step forward a big success  coupled with their super technology.

From its official website, War of legends has a logo embedded with a dragon’s totem, which I am guessing the game will introduce Chinese Dragon’s culture and myth.

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