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During day 2 of CES, we visited the Lego Universe booth. For those of you who have been living under a Lego brick for the past year; Lego Universe is a MMORPG that is currently being developed.

Everyone got to build their own Lego minifig, which is pretty awesome. The only negative thing was that there weren't as many options as I would have liked. (See images below.)

After building our minifig, we were directed to a signup list for the Beta test of the game -- awesome. There were probably around 10 or so computers with a playable demo of the game. Dustin was the only person to actually play, but we all pretty much got the gist of it. The game is not level based, it is achievement based, similar to Xbox Live. As you progress through the game, you get new achievements which unlock new items; clothing, lego pieces, weapons and so on. When you wear a piece of clothing, you recieve bonuses. For example, if you wear a ninja outfit, you will have all of the skills and abilities of a ninja. There is supposedly still a good amount of skill that factors into play. Just because someone has a whole ninja outfit, or knight outfit, or whatever they won't be super-good-invincible-imbalanced. Every character has a set amount of health points; the character Dustin played had 3. For those of you who are unschooled in gaming, this means that no matter how good your equipment is, if you get hit 3 times, you're dead.

I'm definitely going to be messing around with the Beta of this when it comes out. Expect to see a much more in-depth post about this in the future.