Richard Garriotts Tabula Rasa – Golden

Posted by Stropp on September 8, 2007

The other big news of the last couple of days is the announcement of a release date for Tabula Rasa, and the lifting of the NDA for the beta testers. Officially called Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa, the game will be released on the 19th of October. For the beta testers there will be an official end of beta event.

The lifting of the NDA has had another effect. Bloggers and game reporters are finally allowed to press the publish button. A number of articles are springing up across the web. I’ll post links to the articles that I’ve seen below.

For links to some of these articles you might want to check out Kill Ten Rats. He’s already gathered a few to various blogs.

I’ve been interested in Tabula Rasa for quite a while. It’s a sci-fi themed game, which in itself holds a lot of appeal for me. I love fantasy books, games and movies, but I’ve been a sci-fi nerd since I was four years old. No joke, I used to chuck a tanty if I wasn’t allowed to watch Lost in Space. My first sci-fi book was 2001: A Space Odyssey which my Grandma bought for me when I was eight.

I have a special place in my heart for science fiction. Which is why I’m heartened by the upcoming sci-fi MMO releases. Tabula Rasa is just the first. Stargate Worlds is in development, as is Star Trek Online. Both promise to be true to their universes. There’s even a post apocalyptic MMO in the style of Fallout in the works. Fallout itself is supposed to be getting the MMO treatment, though I haven’t heard much lately.

So I’m hoping Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa will do really well. I’ve heard good and bad things said about it, the bad mostly about lack of content. That can be remedied though with regular content releases like LotRO.

Whether I have time to play it is another thing. I might just have to make some. Pity I don’t have a TARDIS.

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