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In the South Korean online game market, fantasy and action games are often two separate genres. For this reason, online games that flexibly combine the two genres' features are likely to stand out and win success. There are several Korean-made online games this season that aim to do just that, including Changchun 2 from Wemade.

Wemade is already well known in South Korea for their martial arts games including The Legend of Mir and Changchun. Their newest project, Changchun 2, combines fantasy and action together under a martial arts theme, based on the Romance of Three Kingdoms and "The Oath of the Peach Garden." Changchun 2 is characterized by rich historical and cultural elements with a mysterious fantasy style that also boasts a heroic guard system. The game enables players to play classes like Swordsman, Blademan, Taoist and Magician which can ride fantastic animal mounts like giant turtles and donkeys. Fashionable suits and ornaments are the finishing touches to this stylish game.

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The growing popularity of video game on mobile gadgets and at online social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, has put a huge pressure on publishers of video game to build richer, more realistic experiences into videogame play on consoles.

The companies at the forefront of video game production, Sony and Microsoft, have been in a race to quench the growing thirst of enthusiasts for more and more realistic experience. Rich visuals like glowing embers, flickering dust, and gray smoke swirling in the realistic-looking 3D background have become common features of action-packed video games nowadays. Not only have visual effects become more realistic, story lines have also become better and more complex. And with the ability to play online with partners/antagonists all over the world, video games have really come of age and have playing become a truly amazing experience.

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There are many online games that are awesome and free to play too. "Ace Onine" is a good example, as you pilot a fighter jet kind of like the classic game Starfox, only with a ton of real-life people shooting at you instead of robots. The game is primarily PvP-based.

"Requiem: Memento Mori" is an MMO that isn't the most well-designed, but it makes up for it with gruesome graphics and 16 expansive class selections for your character to choose. Drift City is a beautifully cel-shaded MMO that comes across as a combo of Crackdown and GTA, or at least the racing parts of GTA. The game is nothing but good clean racing fun, with a full questing system to gang up in teams and challenge other teams to massive races.