Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa Special Collector's Edition - Windows

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like a MMO version of Battlefield 2142. You run around in an over the shoulder view aka Gears of War and blast the evil insect alien races that have pushed humanity off of Earth. There are NPC allies everywhere you fight alongside you (even if they dont do much) giving you the feeling of being involved in a large war effort.
Theres a great deal of unique features in TR, like not choosing a class in the beginning but instead choosing a specialization as you level, being able to clone yourself so you dont have to start over to play a different class and other cool stuff.
This is not a PVP focused game but it IS there. You can challenge someone to a duel ( like in WOW). But more interesting is the clan warefare. Where your clan (guild) can challenge another clan to battle. If they accept all clan members can KOS all other members of the other clan for 7 days. At the end kills are automatically tallied up and a victor is declared. In the future the developers have said clans will each have a passive buff, and when they war with each other; the winning clan takes the losers buff and you can have many types which stack. In essence giving a reason to have clan warefare in a PVP type similar to base raids in City of Villains/Heroes.

To put it as simply as possible, if you want to play a sci/fi shooter based MMO that is more focused on combat. Play TR. If you like slower gameplay, with lots of social stuff, playing the market, just want to craft, etc. then this game probably isnt for you.

Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa Special Collector's Edition - Windows

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explain, the controls is a cross between Halo and WoW... you running around fighting first person shooter style while being in a real time Massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

People who feel challenged by the controls of WoW will feel at sea in this game, but if you are a person who enjoys first person shooters and also RPGs (or either or) you will love this game. On the surface you have an action sci-fi universe with some serious layers of story. Your are on a mission to save humanity by fighting this evil alien race called the Bane. Meanwhile your learning about an ancient alien race called the Eloh who are an answer to threat, the Bane.

On to the negative. There is some serious learning curves if you are not a serious a gamer, but that can be ok, if this genre is your thing, you will enjoy the tutorial, and will come out knowing the basics. The game went live with a few minor set backs, such as no "auction house"... Developers have made it clear that this is in the works in the near future, also crafting in this game is very counter intuitive. There is nothing in the game as, a tutorial to show or introduce how this works... It's actually not very complicated butt, with not actually explanation I know personally I had to go to a third party website to find how to craft things.

Hence my rating of 4 stars, minus these few things which I feel confident they address in later updates, this game would have gotten 5 stars from me.

Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa Special Collector's Edition - Windows

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explain, the controls is a cross between Halo and WoW... you running around fighting first person shooter style while being in a real time Massively multiplayer online role-playing game.



People who feel challenged by the controls of WoW will feel at sea in this game, but if you are a person who enjoys first person shooters and also RPGs (or either or) you will love this game. On the surface you have an action sci-fi universe with some serious layers of story. Your are on a mission to save humanity by fighting this evil alien race called the Bane. Meanwhile your learning about an ancient alien race called the Eloh who are an answer to threat, the Bane.



On to the negative. There is some serious learning curves if you are not a serious a gamer, but that can be ok, if this genre is your thing, you will enjoy the tutorial, and will come out knowing the basics. The game went live with a few minor set backs, such as no "auction house"... Developers have made it clear that this is in the works in the near future, also crafting in this game is very counter intuitive. There is nothing in the game as, a tutorial to show or introduce how this works... It's actually not very complicated butt, with not actually explanation I know personally I had to go to a third party website to find how to craft things.



Hence my rating of 4 stars, minus these few things which I feel confident they address in later updates, this game would have gotten 5 stars from me.