Tabula Rasa Stakes Front-runner Claim in the Great MMO Race

From Richard Garriott, one of the founding fathers of the Ultima series, comes the next great innovative vision in MMO gaming today, NCSoft's Tabula Rasa. At a personal demo of NCSoft's showcase games, we at Warcry had the opportunity to engage the developers in Q&A as well as view the most recent incarnation of the sci-fi Tabula Rasa game engine. Fully expecting a mainstream, cookie-cutter duplication of the industry's earlier successes, we entered the plasma-screened demo room with curbed enthusiasm; but, try as we might, we simply could not keep the smiles and girlish giggling at bay. What could provoke such bubbly effervescence in otherwise-sourpuss reporters? Read on.