Ever since Bruce Lee started making true-to-life kung-fu flicks a few decades back, the world has been absolutely enthralled with martial arts action. And while technology has brought a new generation a plethora of casino games online, not everyone is so willing to gamble. For a different genre, the roundhouse-kicking, judo-chopping goodness of games like Blade and Soul does the trick.

Blade and Soul does a few things for the avid gamer. For starters, it brings sexy back. That's right; you may not regularly admit it, but you're checking out the female characters in this game. The game's art director, Hyung Tae Kim, has been known to get a little graphic is his artistic expression of the female form.

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But the game also brings the martial arts action to a MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) forum and allows hordes of individuals to experience NCsoft's latest release. Blade and Soul is a follow up from the creators of Lineage II, and the game is set in a mystical oriental world and features tons of brutal, large-scale battles and fast-paced actions. Although an MMO, Blade and Soul is operated more like a single-player fighting game.

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