Steven Messner over at PC Gamer has published an article regarding a brief history of MMO games. The article suggests that it will take a look at the best of the genre and the list includes Second Life.
Second Life isn’t a game of course, it’s a sandbox but with that in mind it is indeed ground breaking in the multiplayer sense and with its creativity, user generated content, economy and more it warrants a place in a history of MMO’s.
Steven Messner writes :
When we play MMOs, we’re asked to participate in a fantasy that’s already defined for us. Second Life is a strange example of what can happen when the world bends to our imagination, not the other way around.
This sounds positive, right? Alas it’s sandwiched between stereotypical cliches about Second Life being pretty much all about sex.
I appreciate that the article is a brief history of MMO’s and therefore it can’t go into much detail about Second Life, but it could have at least made an effort to mention more than the adult nature of Second Life.
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