This review is reporduced from DogBeating's MMOsite Blog.

Yesterday marks the opening of the Conqueror server also known as Red Cliff's close beta server. I managed to get myself in front of my trustee computer as earlier as the usual to experience becoming a pugilist in an ancient china world.

Upon clicking the Red Cliff icon that lies somewhere in the slum areas of my desktop, a magnificent scarlet patch launcher appeared before me. It is decorated with a CG illustration of a prominent 3 Kingdom warrior beside him lies a Chinese calligraphy that boastfully flaunts the word "??" (Chi Bi) loosely translated to Scarlet Wall or Red Cliff. Aside from the pleasing oriental eye candy that I stumbled upon, you will also hear an epic warlike themed background music that will definitely resurrects the crouching tiger and hidden dragon that dwells in your inner self. The patcher itself is a complete package for a Chinese themed game isn't it?--Okay pressing start.

 

I logged in inside the game and head straight to the character creation page and a familiar virtual realm welcomed me arms wide open. I have seen this before, I couldn't be wrong this is a recycled version of the character creation screen from Jade Dynasty aka Zhu Xian. Same faces, Same Hairstyle but instead of choosing it by "browse" and "click" all you need to do this time is to choose the face or the hair from the thumbnails they provided. There is also a 4 body built selection available. So if ever you miss your character from Zhu Xian it is easily to create a clone of him in this game.

You will be asked to choose for the weapon of your choice so choose among those available weapons according to your game style. What disappoints me in the weapon selection area is the animation of your character upon choosing a weapon, it seems like your character is overdosed with polygons causing him to imitate a malfunctioning robot. The game will also ask for your origination where in you need to choose a town from the map they provided. Up to now I didn't really get the significant about this option, probably for the role playing factor? So I choose Jiangnan a familiar place in my ear (a major setting in Jinyong's trilogy). Regardless of what you choose as your origination; as your starting point you will still be sent straight to Taoyuan or Garden of Peaches.