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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17896 in Video Games
• Brand: NCsoft
• Model: FG-XP-TR1CE-032
• Released on: 2007-11-02
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Features

• From the plaync website: Players who purchase the Limited Collector's Edition box also receive a briefing from Richard Garriott's alter-ego in the game, General British, classified maps,
• an Allied Free Sentients (AFS) field guide, Tabula Rasa dog tags, an AFS challenge coin and a special edition poster. The Limited Collector’s Edition also includes one month of
• free game play and a "Making of Tabula Rasa" DVD. (source: http://www.plaync.com/us/news/2007/08/ncsoft_reveals_2.html)

Customer Reviews

Leaving WoW in a wormhole!!!
I have to say after leaving WoW(Two year subscriber)to play the Alpha through to launch of Tabula Rasa, and I'm damn happy I did. This MMO is how Sci-Fi is done, and the boredom of the traditional grind in an MMO is just not there. The adrenaline of running across an ACTIVE battlefield is amazing, and get this they have ACTIVE EVENTS also. Not just static and stagnant NPCs, monsters, and missions. I am very pleased that General British has finally brought some fresh and cool to the MMO arena.

Do yourself a favor and give it a taste and make sure you get the Collectors Set for teh goodies. It was worth every damn penny. Remember to run fast, stay low, wear armor, and if it isn't shoulder-mounted it's not big enough. ;)

See you on the battlefield soldier!!!

Almost Perfect for a clean slate...
Where to start, well this game is by far one of the most unique MMO's ever... Being a veteran gamer (Everquest, World of Warcraft, and City of Heroes to name a few) this game takes a very fresh and innovative approach to massively multiplayer online games...

The collector's edition is a must if you're a player who feels you want to have everything with extra mustard... Comes with a letter from General British, nice little touch, packaging is fantastic, and gives you a sense of military sci-fi attitude of this game. Also included a coin, dogtags, nice full color field manual, and some cardboard maps. In game you get a neat little robot pet, and a fancy emote that you can show off with.

Now on to the actual game itself, first and foremost this isn't a lowest denominator game such as World of Warcraft where it's designed for the most casual gamer to play. Not trying to sound smarmy to all you WoW players but this game isn't as user friendly... but I feel this is a huge positive... let me 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.

Do NOT buy - Being cancelled 28 Feb. 2009!
From the official website:

To the Tabula Rasa Community,

Last November we launched what we hoped would be a ground breaking sci-fi MMO. In many ways, we think we've achieved that goal. Tabula Rasa has some unique features that make it fun and very different from every other MMO out there. Unfortunately, the fact is that the game hasn't performed as expected. The development team has worked hard to improve the game since launch, but the game never achieved the player population we hoped for.

So it is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009.

Before we end the service, we'll make Tabula Rasa servers free to play starting on January 10, 2009.

We can assure you that through the next couple of months we'll be doing some really fun things in Tabula Rasa, and we plan to make staying on a little longer worth your while. For more details about what we are doing for Tabula Rasa players, please click here.

Stay tuned for more information. We thank you for your loyal support of the game and encourage you to take us up on the benefits we're offering Tabula Rasa players.

The Tabula Rasa Team