The Incorruptible Warrior--RELEASE & FLOODED

Chinese game The Incorruptible Warrior allows players to execute the corrupt officials that control the people's lives, gaining points and moral status along the way. The release brought on floods of hits to acquire the game. Opinions from the original post, noted below, offer a clue to why the big success, which is reported to be a surprise.

(The player is in combat against a "mistress of corrupt official" clad in bikini)

What is so interesting about this game? After all, the executable file is only 78M, the pictures are crude, the scenes are spare, the copyright is suspect (because it borrows a great deal of material from other games), the lone server is unstable and the financial sponsor is the Chinese Communist Party Disciplinary Committee of the Haishu district in Ningbo city.

The reason for the public interest is that the hero of the game is an "honest and upright official" whose assignment is to weed out corrupt officials, along with their children and mistresses. Here 'weed out' does not 'putting in jail' -- it means using weapons, magic and torture to kill them. There are 165 major characters taken from Chinese history. On your side are the famous incorruptible officials such as Hai Rui and Lord Bao. On the opposite side are the famous corrupt officials such as Zhao Gao, Huo Shen and others who exhibit different degrees of force (=corruption) as indicated by the gauge levels over their heads. When you kill a corrupt official, you gain experience points. For example, killing the notorious eunuch official Wei Zhongxian from the Ming dynasty gains you 100 experience points. As you accumulate points, you increase your powers for "Combatting corruption," "Moral character" and "Degree of being corruption free" instead of the usual "life," "magic" and "strength" in other kinds of games. Your ultimate goal is to reach , where "the birds sing, the flowers give out fragrance, the people are full of love and harmony, the nation is prospering and the world is calm and peaceful."

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