Rangers @ Angels

This is the Fall 2007 preview of the top 10 games I may or may not buy. Exciting, huh? I can't contain myself; let's get right to it.

Synopsis: Tabula Rasa™ is a massively multiplayer online action game that takes you into the heat of battle at the frontlines of an epic war between a xenophobic alien race bent on galactic conquest and the coalition of rebel soldiers who've traveled across the galaxy to stop them.


My take: I've never been involved in any kind of MMORPG. I remember back when Subspace was big, there were a lot of players lost to Ultima Online when that came out in 1997. I was incredibly excited by the idea of World of Warcraft, because, for some reason, I thought the game would be more focused on battles where each unit was a piece of a bigger army. Turns out that wasn't the case.

So coming full circle, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa lands somewhere between an RPG and a third person shooter. Each character in the game (even NPC's) play their roles in a large scale war, where territories can be gained and lost in realtime. This is my kind of MMO. You can see several gameplay videos over at gametrailers.com.

I've been in the beta now for several months, and I've enjoyed it enough to where I'm seriously considering buying the game. At least enough to preorder the collector's edition through Amazon.com anyway. There's a little voice in the back of my head that keeps reminding me that this game has a monthly fee. He better get used to it, though, with Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures showing up in the Spring.

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