For shame...

User Rating: 6.5 | Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa PC
I love what Tabula~Rasa TRIED to be, but in the execution it failed... If its not the gameplay that gets really boring, and the most repetitive MMO I have EVER played that kills my experience with this game, then its the games rough framerate and GFX issues... I feel like im constantly fighting the GFX and controls, it never feels comfortable to me, thats unacceptable. Its a huge shame too because I love the games setting, there are too few Sci-Fi settings in video games for me and I loved the games background and mythology.

I really enjoyed the games class system and advancement, with the ability to make a character save via collect able coins found by doing specific things throughout the game. Then with that save you can make a new character at the same level right before choosing the class path and take the opposite path to explore all the optional character classes in the game. This is a brilliant feature that I hope other developers involve in their games down the line.

Grouping with other players is easy enough as long as theres people who actually want to do the quest your working on, if not, your out of luck. There's a few instances that are not very solo-friendly which is a shame because if your in a mood to finish a quest line and you have no friends to help it really feels like it takes a bit too much gumption to re-arrange your motivation to travel somewhere else and find something else to do. Usually at that point i just log out. And when I finally found a group of 4 others to help with an instance it felt like pure chaos and everyone just rampages through with usually no consideration for anyone interested in the story or reading the quests that you are working on. If you DO read anything while playing through you then need to try and catch up the your group who seemingly shot a speed-ball into their veins before sitting down for a session of TR.

The only way I would recommend this game as is, is if the box was only 10-20$ and the sub was no more than 10 per month. Otherwise I would say wait another year to scope this one, perhaps by then they will have the games GFX and controls ironed out a bit better.