Tabula Rasa official site features reports “from the field”

Ah, it seems that the official site for NCSoft‘s Tabula Rasa has a new feature in its Community News section. Entitled “Report From the Field”, the new feature seems to be a serial highlight of an anonymous blogger’s musings while playing the game.

It’s written in a manner where you can’t really tell if he’s speaking as a player of the game or as the character he’s playing within the game. It’s quite effective really, and not only does it highlight NCSoft‘s emphasis of this game being immersive, it also provides a good read. Here, check out a snippet:

We made our way through the trenches picking off the Bane (as I learned they were called) and approached the base. All of a sudden I had incoming fire from an unknown source. I dove behind some sandbags trying to ascertain the source. I saw my crew under heavy fire and knew I needed to make something happen FAST.

Incoming fire made the sand dance around my ankles as I sprinted to the next stack of sand bags. I took one in the shoulder and leg but my armor held up. I switched over to my rifle and spied the source. Turret Gun!

I shouted to my crew to keep the soldiers off of me and emptied clip after clip into that steel bastid until it finally crumpled. My crew and I cleaned up the lingering trash and I approached the force barrier to the base. After we all tried our hand at shooting through it, I finally put a charge on the wall and blew it open.

The base was ours.

No indication yet if this new feature will continue the way their Screenshot of the Week did, but at least for those who aren’t in the beta but are still yearning to get a taste of the game, it’s a decent preview.

Ah, it seems that the official site for NCSoft‘s Tabula Rasa has a new feature in its Community News section. Entitled “Report From the Field”, the new feature seems to be a serial highlight of an anonymous blogger’s musings while playing the game.

It’s written in a manner where you can’t really tell if he’s speaking as a player of the game or as the character he’s playing within the game. It’s quite effective really, and not only does it highlight NCSoft‘s emphasis of this game being immersive, it also provides a good read. Here, check out a snippet:

We made our way through the trenches picking off the Bane (as I learned they were called) and approached the base. All of a sudden I had incoming fire from an unknown source. I dove behind some sandbags trying to ascertain the source. I saw my crew under heavy fire and knew I needed to make something happen FAST.

Incoming fire made the sand dance around my ankles as I sprinted to the next stack of sand bags. I took one in the shoulder and leg but my armor held up. I switched over to my rifle and spied the source. Turret Gun!

I shouted to my crew to keep the soldiers off of me and emptied clip after clip into that steel bastid until it finally crumpled. My crew and I cleaned up the lingering trash and I approached the force barrier to the base. After we all tried our hand at shooting through it, I finally put a charge on the wall and blew it open.

The base was ours.

No indication yet if this new feature will continue the way their Screenshot of the Week did, but at least for those who aren’t in the beta but are still yearning to get a taste of the game, it’s a decent preview.