Rise

Rise: The Vieneo Province is a virtual, persistent universe that only exists online. It is the largest "seamless" arena online and has very realistic physics. The game is entirely first-person but was originally developed as a "vehicles-only" game. Recently we have been extending interior environments to bring a more social/intimate atmosphere.

Experience over 100,000,000 km of seamless reality in an accurately simulated extra-solar system. Use ground, air, and space vehicles and structures to discover and develop sprawling urban cities, rain swept valleys, vast uncharted deserts, and glittering alien seas. Freely climb to space to take part in physics-accurate orbital maneuvers as the economic and social frontiers expand to interstellar commerce and travel. Colonists arrive and thrive in the world that YOU are helping to establish. Ready to RISE?

Rise: The Vieneo Province (abbreviated to Rise) is an Internet-based virtual world that has been in development since January, 2003 and was offered commercially beginning in April, 2006. Through a downloadable client program, users interact with each other through motional vehicles and avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse.

While Rise is sometimes referred to as a game, in general it does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels, an end-strategy, or most of the other characteristics of a typical game. Players, often called "citizens", can visit this virtual world almost as if it were a real place. They explore, meet other citizens, socialize, participate in individual and alliance activities, and buy and produce goods (virtual property) and services from one another. As they spend more time in the world, they learn new skills and mature socially, learning the culture and manners of a virtual environment.

The game contains player-driven economics, a dynamic weather system, and a detailed terrain engine. Vieneo, the fictitious moon the game is based on, has all the typical attributes of a planet or moon and was generated using [1].

The aerodynamic and astrodynamic physics are of the highest fidelity and therefore closely mimic reality. One of the goals of many players is to fly up into orbit and look down at the large gaming arena.

System Requirements

• Dial-up 56k (or better)
• 256 MB RAM
• 130 MB HD storage
• 800 MHz x86 or x64 CPU (or better)
• nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce4 MX or better
• ATI Radeon Radeon 8500, Radeon 9250 or better

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