Exploring the "blank slate."

Everyone and their brother (or mother) is waiting to see how the general public responds to Tabula Rasa, Richard Garriott's latest venture into the MMOG marketplace. The folks at Eurogamers were thinking the same thing when they interviewed Garriott recently, questioning his statements about other MMOGs and how Tabula Rasa is going to fit into that group.

"What I'm critical of, in our industry, is that over the last ten years most MMOs have included those exact same features... I'm a critic of is the MMO genre, the space - all the games we've produced," he says bluntly. "Those fundamentals are serviceable, clearly - I mean, the genre has grown immensely, in spite of the fact that I think that the type of features which we offer players have not evolved very much. That's really the idea with Tabula Rasa. In fact, the whole name of the game - Tabula Rasa, blank slate. The whole point is to wipe the slate clean."

Read the whole interview by clicking here.