Tabula Rasa: NY Times Plays Tabula Rasa

The New York Times featured an article about Tabula Rasa and interviews General British about recent launch:

Tabula Rasa is a massively multiplayer online game, or M.M.O., like Ultima Online, EverQuest or World of Warcraft. But in making Tabula Rasa the first major science-fiction online game in years, Mr. Garriott has traded in spells for shotguns. While many online games feature complicated controls that may require 30 seconds or more to defeat a single foe, Tabula Rasa is based on hectic combat against legions of slavering aliens.

"I've been doing medieval fantasy for 25 years in a row, and it was just time to do something new," Mr. Garriott, in his customary uniform of denim shirt, jeans, white tube socks and sneakers, said here at the offices of NCsoft, the South Korean company publishing the game. "The first element we wanted to focus on was fast-paced tactical combat. No. 2 was creating a dynamic battlefield where the player feels there is action going on around them all the time. And third was creating a story line that includes ethical parables and problems..."

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