Real Life Review
Last week there was a major buzz going around about the parody site Get a First Life which basically copies the Second Life website and then laughs at it.
The website is a great gag. In fact, even Linden Labs have given the author permission to sell merchandise from the site using a logo that is modified from their own. Its a whole lot of fun and definitely apt given all the massive over hype that is still buzzing around Second Life.
Well, Gamespot decided to take things a step further and have done a review of Real Life.
Real life isn’t above reproach. In one of the stranger design decisions in the game, for some reason you have no choice in determining your character’s initial starting location, appearance, or gender, which are chosen for you seemingly at random. However, over the course of your character’s life, you have tremendous opportunity to customize and define a truly unique appearance for yourself–not only can you fine-tune your hairstyle and hair color, but you can also purchase and wear a seemingly infinite variety of clothing and influence your body type using various in-game mechanisms. For example, if your character exercises frequently, you will appear fit and muscular. You may also choose from a huge variety of tattoos and body piercings, and later you can even pay for cosmetic surgery, though this is expensive and there’s a small chance that the operation will backfire. At any rate, real life offers a truly remarkable amount of variety in determining your character’s outward appearance, and this depth isn’t only skin deep. The only problem is you’re relegated to playing as a human character, though the game does randomly choose one of several different races for you (which have little bearing on gameplay and mostly just affect appearances and your standing with certain factions).
Real Life scores 10 of 10 for Graphics and Sound, but only 9 out of 10 for Game Play and Value.
Very well done. Good time to remind gamers of whats going on beyond there trips into the Outlands :-P
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