Kwonho
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KwonHo: The Hero of Fist is a Korean online fighting game developed by Radio Games and is currently hosted by Hangame but is in the process of being translated and serviced for North America by their American counterpart ijji (Both of them owned by NHN). In Kwonho, the player has the role of creating his own character, choosing a fighting style and buying (or acquiring) clothing and/or items (such as tatoos, guitars, teddy bears and other miscellaneous items). A player's goal is to gain experience by fighting other players in a variety of game modes, or by fighting computer-controlled opponents in the Mission Mode. By winning these fights, a player acquires credits, which he can use to buy new techniques or items, and train to become the best fighter there is. However, there are items in the game that can only be purchased with Hangame/Ijji coins. These coins are available for purchase in the My Account section of the Ijji website.
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[edit] Fighting styles
When creating a character, the player may choose among five fighting styles in KwonHo: The Hero of Fist. Once determined, the style stays fixed to the character.
As fighters level up, they gain points that they can use to enhance their attack power, defense power, counter-hit power or counter-defense power. They also gain skill points, which they can spend on a skill in their list to upgrade its damage capabilities. Finally, they can purchase new moves with the credits they receive from winning fights. In the end, however, sheer skill with a fighting style can overcome anyone, no matter how leveled or how tricked out their style is. The list of fighting styles are as follows:
[edit] Tae Kwon Do
The fastest style in the game, Tae Kwon Do excels in kicking arts and long-range attacks. Tae Kwon Do has long strings of combos that can easily devastate opponents, as well as agile get-away moves that can cover a retreat. Finally, Tae Kwon Do also has the Flamingo stance, which allows users to stand in a defensive posture to deal out attacks at will.
[edit] Muay Thai
Muay Thai is the national sport of Thailand, and is also known as Thai Boxing or Science of the Eight Limbs. This is the all-around fighting style in Kwonho that excels in powerful, average reach attacks and combos. Muay Thai shows its greatest performance when played offensively, but practitioners are relatively weak when put in a defensive position.
[edit] Tai Chi Quan
Tai Chi Quan is an internal martial art, specializing in teaching awareness of one's own balance and what affects it, awareness of the same in others, and how to apply this to self-defense--this makes its attacks in KwonHo revolving around counters to take incoming attacks and reverse them for massive damage. Tai Chi Quan specializes around confusing movements, stance changes, and counters. This fighting style exhibits great defensive potential due to ambiguous stance changes, their counters, and their short-but-fast combos to punish misses or mistakes, but can also be used in an offensive manner to constantly put pressure on an opponent and whittle them down to nothing.
[edit] Ba Ji Quan
Loosely translated as "eight extreme fists", Ba Ji Quan is a powerful style in Kwonho--however, their attacks and combo strings are relatively short and leave practitioners wide open, but successful attacks are quite damaging. This is one of the more difficult styles to master in Kwonho, due to its slow speed and lack of moves effective against sidesteppers. As with Tai Chi, study of the opponent is needed, but not to counter their movements, but rather to see when they are open for a devastating strike.
[edit] Judo
Judo is a powerful grappling style in Kwonho. Exclusive to this fighting style is combo grabs--combo grabs allow the possibility of performing a grab after another. Judo contains little offensive power outside of its throws and differs from the other styles in the sheer variety of throws they have. Judo practitioners are the capable of attempting a grab while running, on the ground, in the air, or even while the opponent is crouching. In Kwonho, it is possible to break grabs, so Judo practitioners must constantly monitor their opponents, and use mix up attacks against the opponent that catch him or her off guard. This will leave them open to a powerful throw.
[edit] Release Dates
The Closed Beta stage of the English edition ended on the tenth of December of 2006.
The Open Beta release date has not been announced yet, but has been stated to be released in March 2007.
It seems that the open beta hasn't been released in march and ijji hasn't announced any release dates yet.
