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After the creation of your first character a tutorial will start giving you info on how to start the game, and what to do next. When you get the message that you can now use multi character control. You can create two more characters and start the game and if you want to you can do a battle tutorial against guards, just to get the hang of things.

That's right in Sword of the New World you can control not only one character but three characters, this is called multi-character control. This might seems pretty confusing but when you play the game you get the hang of it quickly as its fairly easy.

You move by clicking, skills are being done with the keyboard the first character uses the QWERTY row as its skill bar, the second the ASDFG row and the third uses the ZXCVB row. By hitting the F1 - F3 keys, players switch between there avatars, while F4 brings the other characters to the selected party leader. CTRL-A selects the entire group which you will be using a lot, but CTRL-Left clicking orders the team to Assault an area, meaning they'll cut through anything in their path to reach their objective. And witch CTRL-SHIFT-CLICK they pick up any drops around the click location.

Now about skills, a feature I really like about Sword of the New World. Instead of buying one skill, you can buy stances which are sets of 3-5 skills and its own style of battle, this allows you to develop each character differently. It's a good system and works good in Sword of the New World.

Quests are varied from kill-quests, gathering-quests or delivery-quests to instanced missions and even NPC battles. Sword of the New World has a good background story and it's a bit of a pity that it isn't showed in most of the quests but the ones that have a storyline behind them are pretty fun and interesting.

Combat is very fast paced and when you see a group of monsters and you can send them flying in all directions, in less than 10 seconds. This makes the game exciting as you go adventuring and completing your quests.