Ok Second Life really wasn't working for me so I thought that I'd play something that I'd actually enjoy, Star Wars Galaxies. First of all this is only the 14 day trail thing, I might start playing the proper one when I get into it but that's only a might at the minute.Anyway let me say this took literally forever to download, well the game has been out for 5 years so 5 years worth of updates.... anyway it's finished now I decided to play in the most busy server (or as this game calls it galaxy). I was then
allowed to choose my race which had the usual variety that you'd expect from a Star Wars game but instead I chose to keep it simple and have a human character.
allowed to choose my race which had the usual variety that you'd expect from a Star Wars game but instead I chose to keep it simple and have a human character. I then started editing my character to try and make it look like me. The character editing thing isn't great it has to be said, all the hair styles commit the worst 70's sins but it is quite in depth you can for instance change height and weight something most other MMO's (mainly WoW) don't let you do. I'm not even going to pretend that it look like me, it really doesn't but it's the best I could do and when I think about it the game has 10 different races all with lots of customisation available so it is pretty in depth.
I was then prompted to choose my class, I chose bounty hunter because it seemed the coolest and Boba Fett is my favourite Star Wars Character. And that's it my characters name was randomly generated he's called Evasti Destar, not a bad name and it keeps in with the whole Star Wars canon. 
And that's it the familiar opening sprawl came up and I'm trapped in a space station that's exploding talk about putting you straight in the action. Anyway C3-PO no less is giving me instructions, I find a gun blast a door open only to be rescued by Han Solo, Chewie and R2-D2. That really is the best thing about this game it doesn't mind letting you meet these characters and interact with them which is very cool. Anyway we escape (naturally), even Darth Vader was chasing us you do feel very involved in the Star Wars universe, obviously your not going to be able to change history or nothing but touches like that are nice. A
nyway we escaped and land at some space station otherwise known as the starting area, what I am very happy with is that there are lots of players running about, which is always nice to know. Anyway I went looking for my first quest and was very surprised to find Boba Fett lurking in the corner giving me a few quests, again getting to meet your favourite SW character after 5 minutes of playing is very nice.
nyway we escaped and land at some space station otherwise known as the starting area, what I am very happy with is that there are lots of players running about, which is always nice to know. Anyway I went looking for my first quest and was very surprised to find Boba Fett lurking in the corner giving me a few quests, again getting to meet your favourite SW character after 5 minutes of playing is very nice. Anyway just to let you know I have played through part of this tutorial before back home but my computer wasn't good enough to run it so I never finished it.
I've also managed to get a few of my friends to download it and play they haven't started yet though so I don't really want to leave them behind, I'm going to wait and then we can all play together which really is the point of these games. But so far very nice I have to say, the graphics are awesome by the way very nice.
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