NCsoft today began shipping Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa, a massively multiplayer online game for PC, in North America and Europe. Tabula Rasa thrusts players into an intergalactic struggle with military-style online combat.
Tabula Rasa is set in a near-future science-fiction backdrop, compelling players to save humanity against hostile alien enemies trying to gain control of the universe. The game introduces several innovative elements to massively multiplayer online games, including a Character Cloning System that allows players to explore different character classes without having to create a new character, and dynamic battlefields where players feel the frenetic action of combat in an ongoing war.
The standard edition box of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa will be available at major online retailers at an expected retail price of $49.99 and at the PlayNC store. Customers will be able to purchase the Limited Collector’s Edition box from major retailers at an expected retail price of $69.99. Both products include the first month of online game play. After the first month, players will be charged a monthly subscription fee of US$14.99. Sixty-day game time cards will also be available at many North American retailers for an expected retail price of US$29.99.