Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Critic Reviews

Shroud of the Avatar want to be everything: single-player RPG, co-cop game and MMO, but does not quite manage that balancing act.

Quotation forthcoming.

Simply put, Shroud of the Avatar is a wreck. It tries to be a single player experience and a MMORPG at the same time, and fails on both counts. Everything is out of time: the combat system is boring, the progression of the avatar is repetitive, and the the graphics would have been OK fifteen years ago.

The title says it all. There is a corpse underneath the shroud and the virtues were indeed forsaken. The informal successor to the Ultima series proves that Tabula Rasa was not a one-time slip and Richard Garriott belongs in the past.