Because Sword of the new World vis is a Free-to-Play game, the promoters (K2) have to earn somehow the money for their server, and here comes the cash-shop and the premium UPC into the game. To buy one of the Cash-Shop Items, you need a G1-Account, because without one, you won't be able to buy gold for the items or even play the game itself.

The Chas-Shop and Premium UPCs

The Cash-Shop is a neat idear to provide the gamers with items, which makes them more stronger, faster or a better defense, but also allowing them to enter a special area called Forgotten Area, in which the players are not only finding a large number of enemies, but also can train and collect more loot without the trouble of player-kill (PK) or kill-steal (KS). But those areas are not the only one, which the player can only may access by using a Cash-Shop item. Land of the Dead is a huge area, which is only made for Cash-Shop player to collect special items for 92th Armor or Premium UPCs.

Premium UPCs are unlike normal UPC only to get with Cash-Shop items (like Mysterious Powder or Return Scrolls for example). However, those characters are not for nothing. Let's take Irawain for example. This Martial Art (Thai Boxing) starts maybe with level 1, but gets enormous strong at the higher levels. On top of that, he is able to use the same attacks of two UPC Martial Art Fighters, which you only get at a higher level.

The Critics

Now, all those facts are petty impressive and the World Map, on which you find your adventures, is really enormous... but is that all, you may ask? Sadly, but no. In fact, there are a lot of things, which can tear you apart while playing SotnW. For example the Baron Mode. If you PK someone, you automatically enters this mode, which allows everyone to attack you. You can get rid of the Baron Mode by killing enemies, but the more people you PKed, the more enemies you have to kill before you can leave the Baron Mode. But if this wouldn't be that bad, you can even loose items if someone kills you while your in Baron Mode.

A different matter is the report function. As you may know, you have to make an account at G1 if you like to play SotnW, but this page is mostly damaged or bugged. And if you sent a report via ticket, it takes a long time, even though they promise immediately servies for Premium User (which means, you have to buy something from their Cash-Shop or their Premium Package).

Final Result: 89% (Good)
Sword of the new World vis - Granado Espada is a great game with some bugs, which have to be fixed. The game itself is suitable for beginners of this genre but also for professionals who enjoyed World of Warcraft, Lineage 2 or Silkroad Online. The use of three characters at once makes this game pretty unique and with the use of the many different UPC, the fun stay a little longer. It is true that even in this game are bots, but less than in Silkroad or somewhere else and you know what to do if you see a bot... PK them!!!