Prince of Qin
$9.95		(Win95/98/2000/Me/XP) (Mini Retail) (PRINCEQPR)

Publisher: Object Software / Strategy First

Game

- Blood and violence

Recreate the Glory and Chaos of the Great Qin Empire

Prince Of Qin is an action role-playing game, which takes place around 2,200 years ago during the last 20 years of the Qin Dynasty. Players can play as Fu Su, the Crown Prince of Qin. According to history, the Prince committed suicide in obedience to an imperial decree that was forged by his younger brother Hu Hai, who went on to become the Second Emperor of Qin. In this game Prince Fu Su does not die, but strives to take revenge on his enemies and becomes the Emperor of Qin in accordance with his birthright.

Game Features:

Multiplayer support for up to 500 gamers on a dedicated server and up to 20 gamers on a LAN or over the internet.

Over 100 different locations including 28 cities, 18 counties, and 78 country fields. This does not include building interiors at these locations.

Different endings evolve depending on player's actions during the game.

Choose to play from one of five basic character types: Paladins, Musclemen, Assassins, Wizards, Witches.

Game content inspired by the actual art and history from the period of the game.

Interact with over 70 different NPC's in stores, palaces, mansions and inns.

Magic based on the five elements Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. In ancient China, philosophers believed that the world was made up of these elements.

Players can combine raw materials to make new weapons. Weapons feature the ability to be damaged and repaired.

The First Emperor

(Ying Zheng) (259-210 BC)---After he conquered all the six states and established the first feudal dynasty in China's history-the Qin Dynasty, Ying Zheng proclaimed himself Shi Huangdi (First August Emperor). In his 29 years of rule, the First Emperor had many achievements including establishing the Qin Dynasty to end the chaos of the Warring States period, creating a centralized bureaucratic system of government, which largely lasted throughout Chinese imperial history, standardizing metrology (the system of weights and measures) and traditional Chinese characters, and building the Great Wall.

He was a man as gifted in administrative ability as he was in military ability. But he ruled with heavy reliance on fear as a weapon and the cruelty of his rule is nowhere more clearly illustrated than with the huge loss of human life involved in the building of his palaces (he built more than 700 of them including the huge Epang Palace) and tomb and in particular the Great Wall. It is said one man died for every meter of the Great Wall constructed. During the First Emperor's rule over 5,000 km were constructed.

Prince Fu Su

Prince Fu Su was the eldest son of the First Emperor and is the leading character in the game. He was the Crown Prince but angered his father when he had the courage to object to the orders to burn the books and bury the scholars alive. His punishment was to be sent north in disgrace to assist in the construction of the Great Wall and the defense of the Northern Border. Having been removed from the center of power, he was exposed to the evil machinations of the Chief Eunuch, Zhao Gao and the Prime Minister, Li Si. Shortly before his death the First Emperor had named Prince Fu Su his successor but when the First Emperor died of a sudden illness Zhao Gao and Li Si, fearing for their positions should the liberal Crown Prince take the throne, kept his death secret, suppressed the edict naming Fu Su the First Emperor's successor and forged another edict ordering Fu Su and the Great General Meng Tian to commit suicide. Both Fu Su and Meng Tian obeyed this edict and immediately after they had done so Zhao Gao and Li Si announced the death of the First Emperor and had Hui Hai, Prince Fu Su's younger brother, ascend the throne as the Second Emperor of Qin.

Whilst in history both Fu Su and the Great General Meng Tian tragically killed themselves in obedience to the fake edict, in the game they both live and Fu Su launches himself on a mission to find out the truth behind the edict and once he discovers the plot against him to seek his revenge against those who had betrayed him and his father and to seek his birth right.

Requirements:

Win 95/98/2000/Me/XP: Pentium II 266 MHz, 64Mb RAM, 2Mb 3D Accelerated Video Card, 400-600Mb Free hard disk space, DirectX 7.0.

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