Swordsman Online
Swordsman gameplay has a focus on action-oriented combat that is less focused on stats and more on player skill. Players can excel through character mobility, aerial combat, twitch reflexes, dodging, and…
Swordsman Online is an adventure developed by Kingsoft Corp, released 1 January 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Swordsman Online is
Swordsman Online is an adventure game developed by Kingsoft Corp and released in 2003. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Swordsman is based upon the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (Xiao Ao Jiang Hu) by Louis Cha, the best-selling Chinese writer alive. He’s famed for his wuxia novels, with 100 million copies of his works sold worldwide. As part of the wuxia genre of Chinese martial arts and chivalry, in Swordsman, the player takes the role of a wandering hero and experiences the hero’s rise to glory amongst one of ten schools of martial arts, the quest to avenge the hero’s destroyed village, and the opportunity to adventure with great heroes around the world.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and open world.
How it was received
Swordsman Online holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Swordsman Online launched on 1 January 2003, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Space Rangers and Sonic Advance 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Space Rangers, Sonic Advance 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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