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   Hero Online is an mmorpg set within the myths and legends of Asia. Players choose between 4 characters: Ruthless Blade, Elegant Mystic, Piercing Eyes, and Overseer of the Sky. Each character has 4 classes available: Warrior, Hunter, Physician, and Assassin. The realistic fighting system is rooted around the martial arts with some fantastic visuals.
   Developed by Netgame and published by Mgame USA Inc, Hero Online released in 2006 as a free to play (F2P) MMO that revolves heavily around martial arts and an intricate story line written by three generations of martial arts novelists. A very quick glance at this game may show little more then a constant grind for levels - but if you take the time to delve a little further in you may be surprised at what you find.
Like most F2P games Hero Online does not take a great deal of resources to run. I never had an issue with performance or lag, even when I was wandering around in the midst of the market area which was home to an almost endless supply of merchants set up trying to get players to purchase their items.
Instillation went smoothly, as did the updates. Once I had registered on the web site for Netgame I was free to download, log in, and play right away.
   There are different areas which can be entered by portals located in the main zone. Each zone is bright and colourful, and brings the Asian theme into play wonderfully. When you first create you find yourself in an area filled with trainers and merchants, and you can slowly explore outside the gates and then head to more dangerous zones from there. Because this is a F2P game, you will of course find a large number of bots and people spamming their sales all over the place, be it in tells, shouts, says, or whatever other means they can get a hold of. If you're used to these types of games you won't notice it as being unusual at all and it's just another aspect to the game. There's always ways to block these from your chat windows, and most gamers have developed a sort of 'selective reading' by now.