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IMG has posted a preview of Second Life, a new massive multiplayer online game currently in beta where players create their own characters who live in an ever-changing online world. Similar to games such as The Sims: Online, the game offers players a complete virtual world for their characters to inhabit.

Here's a clip from the preview:

Gameplay in Second Life is kind of hard to explain. It seems to be made up of equal parts of interaction, exploration, and work. In order to make money to buy all the good stuff (land, objects, outfits, whatever) you need to create things to sell to other users. This means you are going to have to spend some time working - developing models, textures and scripts to power objects. Once you have an object to sell, you need a space to both advertise and sell your product. This means either renting space at a store - or buying land, building a structure and then finding some customers/

IMG Preview: Second Life

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Second Life

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