Tabula Rasa

Humans are scattered through the cosmos. The invasion of the Bane coincided with our discovery of an ancient race's wyrmhole technology, which meant pockets of Earth's inhabitants could escape an otherwise grisly fate.

Now starting from a 'tabula rasa', or clean slate, the war against alien foes carries on in a style that's both massive and multiplayer, but with a few ounces of shooting piled in alongside the dice-rolls.

Essentially the game where PlanetSide and Guild Wars collide, it's something that's tumbled from the big brain of Richard Garriott - who not only created the seminal Ultima Online, but was also on the same zero-g vomit comet' flight as Professor Stephen Hawking. Which is excellent trivia.