Tabula Rasa

Maintain the balance of mind, body, and spirit while killing tons of freaky aliens in Tabula Rasa, a new MMORPG from the creator of Ultima Online.

Eastern philosophy meets alien cyberpunk meets God knows what in Tabula Rasa, a weird, new ship sailing the overcrowded MMORPG seas. But this particular one is helmed by Richard Garriot, the same guy who started this whole craze with Ultima Online?and it?s obvious he?s learned a few things since then. Tabula Rasa is one of the ?new guard? MMORPGs that relies heavily on instanced areas (i.e. special just-for-your-party dungeons or just-for-you houses) to eradicate problems like overcrowding, spawn camping, and sprawling urban wastelands. Character development is very open-ended?there are no ?classes,? per se: You simply choose different specializations as you progress, and you?re allowed to reinvent yourself with no penalty at any time. Plus, voice chat is fully integrated into the game. All that and the story and setting are absolutely nuts: It?s the distant future, and mankind has learned to teleport instantly to almost anywhere by folding space (perfect back story for instanced dungeons); they now rely on balancing mind, body, and spirit using the powers of music (characters have their own ?spirit instrument? that hangs out with them) and strange ?spells? that work a lot like the fictional super-virus from Snow Crash?a swirl of visual cues and symbols that trigger violent, freaky-deaky reactions in the sentient brain.

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