Heres a link to the official site first off : www.shoonline.net/

Introduction (direct from site):

 'Sho Online' is an online game that is based on one of the four Chinese tales called the 'Fengshen Yanyi'.

'Fengshen Yanyi', is a story that is created based on the real historical events. It merges the conflicts between the Yin and Zhou era to the imaginary world of Taoism.

In order to create the fantasy world of 'Sho Online', we've adapted the fantasy elements of this tale to the game.

The starting point of this game is 50 years after the original 'Fengshen Yanyi' incident took place.

Even though the Zhou's revolution was successful, they were still confronted with the remaining forces of the Yin's.

Under the circumstances where conflicts between the Chun and Jeol factions of the upper world rising, each players are positioned within the nation that they choose to be in.

Players must sometimes fight and help each other to rebuild their nations. Trying to rebuild a nation through wars and friendships will take you into the epic world of 'Sho Online'.

Over 80 different regions created through the historical research, players are to expand their territories by going through the new challenges that they encounter throughout the game. Players will fight till the day that they are acknowledged as heroes.

It is based on the theme of war between the two nations (Yin and Zhou). 'Sho Online” brings fast game play as well as realistic war environments to each and every player of the game. Monsters with artificial intelligence, endless war between the two nations to expand their territories are the main points of this game.

Developed by adapting the advantages of both Eastern and Western cultures, Sho Online presents unique atmosphere as well as unique game play. Players will experience something that they've never experienced before in the world of 'Sho Online'.

Special Features:

1)War System

Players will position themselves in either Yin or Zhou colonies. You will be encountered in a continuous war to breakdown your enemy's battle formations. When a war breaks out in the game, all players are eligible to participate in a war. Players will be experienced with the massive war environments which they've never experienced before in other games.

Use of the military weapons, ensuring the point of strategic importance for your army, different missions to take down your enemy's generals are the main features that can only be experienced in the world of Sho Online.

Link to official war information: www.shoonline.net/web/gameguide/guide_0309.asp

War actions pic links: (from CBT)

www.shoonline.net/upload/screenshot/2008325111526screen_file1.jpg

http://www.shoonline.net/upload/screenshot/2008325121344screen_file1.jpg

www.shoonline.net/upload/screenshot/2008325111831screen_file1.jpg

2)Pet System

Each of the pets in the world of 'Sho Online' is your companion and your friend at the same time. You and your pet will have the same destiny. You will be encountered with many different types of pets as you play through the game. Raising a good pet will help you out in every parts of the game.

3) Dynasty System

You have to choose your alliance prior to creating your first character. This is a very important choice as the pvp in this game is large scale field and siege warfare. Your choices are between the Yin and Zhou.

Link to dynasty informarion: www.shoonline.net/web/gameguide/guide_0301.asp

4)House System

House system is one of community systems in Sho Online, and Houses are virtual social gatherings formed by players. Once a character becomes a House member, it keeps its membership until the dissolution of the House, or the dismissal or withdrawal of the character occurs.

If a House is maintained and keeps growing, the level of the House will increase. Higher level Houses can accommodate more members. House members can enjoy various additional activities, such as taking quests available only to them, creating their own crests and competing with other Houses in House battles. (Some functions under development.)

5) Enchanting System

Enhancement system is used to upgrade weapons and defense armor.
Enhancement will increase the attack power of weapons and the defense capability of defense armor.
To enhance your item, you need to have an item called [Enhancer].

6) Manufacturing system

Manufacturing System allows players to create items by collecting required materials and using formulations.
You can check Making information in the Recipe Window, and if you collected all the materials required to make an item in the Item Window, click the button to create the item.

Videos

Gameplay: www.youtube.com/watch

War Video: www.youtube.com/watch

99% straight from the site, just spreading the info. Hope to see ya in game.

Typical asian grind fest...?

Originally posted by gath

Typical asian grind fest...?

well. grindfest yes, typical... not at all.

incredible large scale pvp. Still needs work but OBT just started very recently and hopefully the issues will be fixed accordingly.

 watch the in game footage of the war, the war pics are from cbt and arn't the greatest but the war video shows you the open field war very well

 www.youtube.com/watch <---- re-posted the war gameplay video, don't think this can be labeled another typical asian grindfest, but to each their own.

Well, it's got big numbers.  It has to be good.

Oh, lol, i played it some time back, closed beta i guess... lol, played so many stuff i totally forgot about it.

Never got to the war zone, but... ok, wont use "typical"... will use "another" asian grind game.

Originally posted by Meatimus

 

Originally posted by gath

Typical asian grind fest...?

well. grindfest yes, typical... not at all.

 

incredible large scale pvp. Still needs work but OBT just started very recently and hopefully the issues will be fixed accordingly.

 watch the in game footage of the war, the war pics are from cbt and arn't the greatest but the war video shows you the open field war very well

 www.youtube.com/watch <---- re-posted the war gameplay video, don't think this can be labeled another typical asian grindfest, but to each their own.

what large scale pvp, i see only duel options for pvp and you can only request pvp so far i see ?

www.shoonline.net/web/gameguide/guide_0304.asp

 on the other hand i see group pvp on this youtube video, so for what you fight in this game ? territory or castles or just for dying ?

 i bet there is grindfest as well, i never saw any asian mmorpg without grind...

funny.. it looks like a carbon copy of silkroad

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yeah...

Currently playing this game, its pretty good, addictive gameplay, awesome war system ( lvl 45 archer - Liquinario )

Give this game a shot, it's NOT BAD.

Well I don't think my character looks that disgusting but yeah whatever .... I actually like the ingame armor.

Another thing I like about the game is the NICE GM SUPPORT.
We had problems with goldsellers spamming the global chat & chinese and korean people talking in non roman characters, so the next day we had an update which made it so that non-roman characters were unable to be typed in global chat ( still able in house  / whisper / local chat ) and that only lvl 10+ could talk in global chat so no more gold chat spamming. All in All its a good game for being F2P. Reminds me of the golden KO days...

i was thinking bout trying it out.  I signed up for beta and everything.  i watched a vid though and people were bashign it on the comments, so i decided not to play it.  Plus it doesnt have xfire support, and i try and play games w/ xfire

Yeah X-Fire totally makes or breaks a game ... as it has nothing to do with it, nice argument. LoL

hey, i just like to have something to show for my hours of gaming, and the little thing that says youve played X amount of hours is cool.

Well I started playing today, basically drifting through games, trying to find one thats like RF Online but better in ways, anyways, this game starts off easy, the first quest is to kill some frogs and once you've done that you become lvl 5-6, nice and quick. After then it slows down but still quick speed and you should easily get to lvl 10 in about an hour even if you haven't played the game before. At lvl 10 you can select your main class which is what you will be from now on, and is your class. After this you try to get up the lvls to be able to help in the War's that happen on certain areas, when declared randomly (i think its declared by players but haven't got that far yet)

Then its faction vs faction to do a certain task to win the war, like when I was on just now, they had to kill the enemy commander within 15 mins or kill the rangers in 30, then after the 30 mins they had to protect our commander, in the end we won, and you get x2 exp/honor points for winning. This system, to me at least, is very unique, to have different war's over certain parts of the world, doing different objectives, which is one of the main reasons you play this game. 

So far I haven't played the game long but I'm very interested to play on and on, which for one is a plus point straight away. There also seems to be a lot of quests, so far at least, but they seem to be kill x x amount of times then kill x x amount of times to get x amount of money and exp. But i'm only lvl 10 so far :D

Originally posted by RespyShunt

hey, i just like to have something to show for my hours of gaming, and the little thing that says youve played X amount of hours is cool.

... if you say so...