IGG - the developers of Myth War Online, Voyage Century and Tale of Pirates - have announced the latest MMORPG on the way to their import-laden stable: Zu Online. This MMORPG revolves around "traditional Chinese culture and monkery". They get extra points for using the word monkery in a press release.

IGG Announces a New MMORPG: Zu Online

IGG, an online game operator in North American, is best known for the good quality of its online mmorpg Myth War Online£¬Voyage Century Online and Tales of Pirates which have successfully been operated in North American for a long time and are popular among fantastic and marine time fonder. Moreover, with the motto of ¡°Top Game, Top Service¡±, IGG bring new blood into America online game industry, which is welcomed by our players and brings them a more enjoyable and relaxed game experience.

After these successes, IGG bring its new MMORPG to the global players ¨C Zu Online. The closed beta test of this game will start in September, 2007.

Zu Online£¬which refers to lots of classical sutras, has its setting based on the supernature novel---The Life of Swordsman in a area called Zu. It is an elaborately and well-designed 3D MMORPG with a rich culture of immortals and knight-errants. Its most outstanding feature is putting emphasis on the traditional Chinese culture of monkery. The in-game quests will boost the development of storyline. Players will be able to taste flying by riding a sword, consubstantiating god and Buddha, forging mystic weapons, creating sects and other else amusing. ¡°Zu Mountain¡±, these two characters do not only represent a range of mountains and streams. By contrast, considerable ghosts, immortals, knight-errants and uncanny fairylands have been tightly fastened to them. ¡°Zu Mountain¡± has become the pronoun of the millenarian oriental culture of immortals and monkery. Zu Online is a story about the immortals¡¯ monkery and battles against the evil. It has attracted much attention since its debut. We believe that Zu online will be a focus and banner of the new online games in 2007.

The official preview website of Zu Online will be released soon. The website address is http://zu.igg.com. Please pay close attention to the upcoming test as well as other information of this amusing game then.