Last Update: 3/8/07

KwonHo

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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Features

- 5 Fighting Styles
- Customizable Fighters - Buy clothes and accessories for your fighter or Buy new skills to add to your arsenal.
- Various Game Modes

Single Play - A 1vs1 Single Match. The first player to win two out of three rounds wins the match.
Team Match - You can play a 2v2 or 3v3 Team Match. Defeat all of the opponents to win
Death Match - In Death Match, when you defeat your opponent, the next teammate comes in to fight. Be careful, your health meter will not be fully refilled!
Gym Competition
Mission - Need a break from playing with others online?

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.