Upon entering the world Jason is taken through a highly customized introduction that helps define what his character's class will be. Jason suffers several bad events so when he gets home he's ready to take out his frustrations on the new MMO game that just released. Jason's story starts off as a typical teen drama of going to school. I found the game development sections fascinating as it talks about how they're testing out the artificial intelligence system the programmers created to run the game, how it is growing and learning, changing the game on its own, even scaring the creators with some of the things it's done. Each chapter starts with a small section that is during the game's development period a couple years before the release and then jumps forward to present day and Jason's story.

It may be that he's the villain.Īwaken Online: Cartharsis is the first in the Awaken Online series by Travis Bagwell and is the author's first novel. Jason quickly finds himself going down a path he never expected, one where he isn't the hero. The level of immersion and customization is unprecedented and unlike any other game Jason's ever played. Frustrated and alone, Jason logs into Awaken Online, a brand new virtual reality game that has just released to the public.

One student in particular has made it his job to make Jason's school life as miserable as possible, even going so far as to set up an situation that ends up with Jason expelled from the school. His parents are never home, always traveling for work, and Jason's school is for the ultra wealthy so his scholarship means the staff and other students treat him like a charity case. From the inside, though, things are quite different. He's going to an exclusive private school on scholarship and his parents are lawyers so the family is reasonably well off. From the outside things look pretty good. Where RPO is a nostalgic adventure story set in a virtual world, AO is like actually playing a MMO. Show More several times in my Audible recommendations after finishing Ready Player One so I decided to download it and give it a try.

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