Sanguo Online is the brilliant result of more than a year of rigorous development and design by Wayi Beijing and renowned manga-calligraphy artist Zheng Wen (郑问). Built on one of the world's most revered 3D graphic engine and enhanced with symphonic music from the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Sanguo Online beckons you to a persistent world of surreal incredible beauty alongside earth-shattering battle scenes, combining rich textures, heart-pounding music and sound effects, seamless realism and fluid movements into an awesome digital reality, setting new standards once again in the Asian MMORPG realm.

    To achieve the awesome graphical capabilities of Sanguo Online, Wayi Beijing invested hundreds of thousands of US dollars for the source to "Unreal 2"'s 3D graphic engine. Wayi's game programmers then modified the engine in-house to enable support for several special visual effects. For example, an advanced Particle-FX system allows natural movements of rain, snow, fog, etc, while a Lighting-FX system controls the displays of shadows. With these cool engine enhancements, players are treated to real-time weather and lighting changes within the game environment. The end result? A richer gameplay experience!
 
    And what better way to match a top-notch 3D graphic engine than top-notch graphics? Indeed, Sanguo Online boasts a myriad of graphical elements that are exceptionally true-to-life. Natural scenery, architecture, characters, creatures, clotheswear, accessories, weapons, armor and other items are specially hand-drawn and colored to intricate perfection, then digitized into high-definition 3D for maximum realism. The man behind the game's artwork breakthroughs is Master Zheng Wen (郑问), a celebrated manga expert-turned-Artistic Director of Wayi Beijing.

    Born in 1958 in Taiwan's Taoyuan county, Zheng was an instant favorite among comic fans back in the 1980s with "Warrior Panther (战士黑豹)". Over the next 10 years, he published long-running series like "Gods of War (斗神)", "The Assassin Chronicles (刺客列传)" and "Api Magic Sword (阿鼻剑)" -- great successes of the time that helped raised the benchmark of Taiwanese manga from amateurish to professional levels. In 1990, Zheng's pugilistic "Heroes of Eastern Zhou (东周英雄传)" series was published in a morning daily by Japan's Kodansha (講談社). Subsequently, he was hailed "Asia's God of Manga" and "Taiwan's No. 1" by Kodansha, Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞), Japan Cartoonists Association (Nihon Mangaka Kyoukai 日本漫画家協会) and other leading societies in Asia.

    Under Zheng's direction, realistic, not beautiful, artwork holds precedence in Sanguo Online. The game's imaging style is based on 80% realism and 20% estheticism, and features such diverse landscapes like mountainous terrains, plains, forests, deserts, cities, lakes and caves, laid out with close reference to actual historical maps! Zheng has paid remarkable attention to details, be they the billowing wheat fields on a boundless plain, the echoes of fisherman songs over a vast mist-covered lake, flying golden sand grains and Buddhist sculptural carvings in the Gobi Desert, or the mountainous chains that join the sapphire skies and the emerald waters below.

    Zheng is also a skillful expert in depicting human expressions. With a masterly hand, Zheng can caricature the looks and postures of determination, humour, honesty, sadness and other emotions in the game's characters. And with his profound knowledge of traditional Chinese culture and history, the resultant Three Kingdoms world in Sanguo Online is about as realistic as history itself. Animate Zheng's Eastern-themed artwork with a state-of-the-art 3D graphics engine from the West and there you have it -- an amalgamation of East and West, of art and technology!

    Additionally, Sanguo Online's awesome soundtracks and audio effects help create realistic atmospheres. Mr. Shi Xieyong (史撷咏), a famous Taiwanese musician, wrote over 50 pieces of Chinese folk-styled music for the game. Shi's compositions were then recorded, produced and remixed into fine music pieces by the reputed Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the oldest-established in China and the whole of Asia with a history of 125 years.

    With superior 3D game engine and graphics, professional art design and world-class symphonic music, Sanguo Online is, without a doubt, a colossal masterpiece that will rave online game players and entertain Three Kingdoms fans everywhere!

    Players who attain Martial Master status will bear the name, looks, armor, weapons and powers of the corresponding Martial Master, even though their overall strengths and capabilities as Martial Masters very much depend on their own. Additionally, they also gain special Level Attributes, while Gold, Experience Points and Popularity Points garnered will all be owned wholly by the players themselves. What's more, they also boast the authority to summon their closest guards and assassins to help them in their fights, battles and secret missions, just like in the classics! During their time as Martial Masters, players get to control the scenes. Being actual historical characters mean that they have full autonomy to follow the original plot, or simply alter the storyline if they so wish! They can be the true, revered heroes that the classics preached, or behave totally contrary to known history! Either way, fantasies are fulfilled and dreams are realized. And because different players possess different agendas, nothing will be the same; expect an onslaught of the wildest imaginations coming true!
　

    To fight virtual wars in Sanguo Online, players must amass what are known as battle factors. Of limited quantity in-game, these factors give players the authority to declare and engage in warfare.

    Wei (魏), Shu (蜀) and Wu (吴) are enemy states whose common interests lie in territorial expansion, and eventually uniting all three under one ruler. Every player is part of his kingdom's army and has the sacred duty to protect and fight for his country. Apart from these national forces, players can also assemble their own small-scale armies to attack armies from another kingdom. These armies can also form co-operative alliances, and gain control of certain strategic locations from which large-scale warfare may be waged. Country wars are the most intense and largest-scale inter-kingdom battles in Sanguo Online. Picture towering siege engines below a heavily-guarded fortress, wheeled trebuchets catapulting fiery arrows through the air, huge battering rams breaking open city gates, and thousands of armored men and horses wielding sword and spear on the hoof-marked battlefield in a convincing, 3D environment... such are the breathtaking elements of a full-scale adrenalin-charged inter-kingdom bloodfight taking place in real-time and involving actual brave souls like you!

    Armed with tact, strategy and magic, players of Sanguo Online will immerse in countless battles with the goal of unifying the Three Kingdoms. But what's different from history is, with players on the helm of things, expect only the unexpected. The existence of valiant heroes and despicable villains role-played by the gaming masses is enough justification to reconstruct the path of history as we know it. And that is probably the way history should be...