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A review by angrywombat
Death March by Phil Tucker
4.0
OMG. This was totally out of left field.
Im participating in a "book bingo" and was dreading the LitRPG entry. I used to work for a MMORPG company, and did not want to read about a game... or so I thought. I've read Phil Tucker's "Chronicles of the Black Gate" which was a fantastic epic fantasy, so I thought he might have done a decent job with this "computer game fiction genre" that I was fearing.
Yep.
There is no messing about, just a straight launch into the guts of the story. A gamer with troubles given a chance to play a fantastic new AI created MMORPG. The gamer (Chris) wants to get this AI overlord to help him out - and anyone who survives 6 months ingame (like a weekend realtime) in a "death march mode" where you really die if you die ingame) gets to ask 1 favor.
And so we're dumped into a super-realistic full immersion MMORPG, and our PoV guy Chris is in way over his head, but uses his gaming instincts to play the mechanics and use teamwork to do the (almost) impossible.
The rest of this series needs to be read!
Im participating in a "book bingo" and was dreading the LitRPG entry. I used to work for a MMORPG company, and did not want to read about a game... or so I thought. I've read Phil Tucker's "Chronicles of the Black Gate" which was a fantastic epic fantasy, so I thought he might have done a decent job with this "computer game fiction genre" that I was fearing.
Yep.
There is no messing about, just a straight launch into the guts of the story. A gamer with troubles given a chance to play a fantastic new AI created MMORPG. The gamer (Chris) wants to get this AI overlord to help him out - and anyone who survives 6 months ingame (like a weekend realtime) in a "death march mode" where you really die if you die ingame) gets to ask 1 favor.
And so we're dumped into a super-realistic full immersion MMORPG, and our PoV guy Chris is in way over his head, but uses his gaming instincts to play the mechanics and use teamwork to do the (almost) impossible.
The rest of this series needs to be read!