Tabula Rasa

从理查Garriot的头脑， TR放您入假想增加机巧其他比赛提供重复的未来派MMO。 它假想从抹板岩干净’赌博想法和投掷在新的想法的`开始了。 那是什么Tabula Rasa手段，终究。 反而，它是在每个过分的想法附近根据的赛用创新被投掷的in.几个一口。

这些一口是字符创作系统。 每个球员创造仅一个字符和一个字符。 作为那个字符生长并且选择它是道路，您完全地从开始创造`克隆’在转折点，允许您从转折点回来和开始，宁可然后。 它运作很好，并且我发现了它难以置信地有用。

一个非常联合国有用的一口，然而，是用户界面。 因为设计师从`空白的板岩工作’他们没明显地意识到MMO用户界面随着时间的过去被提炼了。 反而，他们整个地创造了一份辐形菜单容易接近由老鼠。 好，在理论，但，当菜单是开放的时，菜单上是您能互动与的唯一的事。 Don’t try attacking, don’t try turning around or changing direction - it won’t let you. This means in the middle of battle you shouldn’t access the menu to use an item or to level up. Again, the blank slate has forgotten that people do these things all the time.

Graphically, the game is quite pretty. And while every character looks quite identical, you’ll find the world itself to be quite well detailed and the ’spells’ to be impressive. But graphics only go so far, and the one place the game did not start from a ‘blank slate’ is the gameplay. Filled with fetch quests and kill quests, you’ll find yourself having flashbacks of World of Warcraft, DAOC, and any other game that has a brutal level grind. And here is where innovation would have made the largest difference - rather then simply putting a new coat of paint on the overused MMO formula, they could have started from ‘Tabula Rasa’ and given us something worthy of the title.

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