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same time was more than 2320,000, moreover the number of registration players exceeded 2 millions. The record was kept in the same kind of product until the end of 2008. The newest one called Westward Journey Online ? was operating on 12 September 2007; the game engine was independently developed by Netease and supporting multiple 2D round system games. The graphics of the game reached highest quality among 2D games. The Westward Journey ? could be considered as an AAA game made in China (Netease 2009).

Regards on the original online game, Westward Journey Online ? was set a background story based on the original classic novel the Journey to the West. Players could find monkey king and other original features in the game. However, developers added some other cultural features into the game as well. So it is considered as a product of mixed traditional Chinese culture based on content of Journey to the West. In the research, the background story of the game will be presented at the first view. Some connection between original fiction and the modern game content, further more the cultural influences might be discovered during the examining.

Depending on the content of introduction on the official website of Netease, the background story of the game is described from three aspects which are overview of the world, the origin of cultures and story content.

The first content is depicted is the world, a rich Chinese culture features are able to be found in the few words description. The world of the game was set as three boundaries and four continents. Four continents are the same names with original fiction. They are east continent (Dong Sheng Shen Zhou in Chinese), west continent (Xi Niu He Zhou in Chinese), south continent (Nan Zhan Bu Zhou in Chinese) and north continent (Bei Ju Lu Zhou). The origin of four continents came from the Buddhism legend. The world was created by Pan Gu, a creator of universe in Chinese mythology. And three boundaries are human beings, who pursue the harmony between human beings referring to humaneness and righteousness, celestial beings seek self liberation referring to cultivate oneself according to a religious doctrine, devils chase original nature referring to freedom. So that three different cultures in the game are generated,

Apart from the world setting, the historic period related to Chinese history. The story of the game is happened in Tang Dynasty which is a blooming time in Chinese history. The economy is flourishing and society is steady, people begin to reflect the pains which wars and disasters brought in before. And citizens expect the world filled harmony and friendship, therefore, this situation gives Buddhism an opportunity to spread in China. The journey to find scripture of Buddha begins from the start point. The setting affects characters attributes, world's structure and giving a rich environment to the local players.

The second part of background story of the game is about the origin of culture. The description of original culture in the game just imitates the characteristics of the times when the classic novel was written. Three religions merged together, the different thing is that three religions were employed into three races which are human beings, celestial beings and devils. The three races have sameness and differentia, the sameness is that all of them wish to attain the way; the differentia is that they have differen本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。