I grabbed it and tried it. It was very pretty. I got through the tutorial and quit.

Why? Mostly because the play mostly seemed to be "drive your car around using the keyboard, and try to shoot at people." I didn't see any indication of the richer combat systems I've come to expect from the MMORPG genre. And I kind of hate racing games, especially if you're trying to control a car with a keyboard -- acceleration and steering really require analog controls, which I (perhaps unfairly) associate with consoles.

I also wanted to see some content in the tutorial where I got out of my car and engaged in some person-to-person combat. Maybe that's in the game, but I couldn't see a "get out of the car" button in my scan of the controls. So after spending 90% of my character creation time dinking around with my person avatar and 10% of my time picking a paint job for my car (and not otherwise being able to customize it), I then proceeded to spend 100% of my time staring at my car. Meh. I assume as the game proceeds you get cooler cars, etc, but still.

I didn't see any indication in the tutorial as to how my "class" differed from anyone elses. I picked the "rogue" class, but how does that work if you're driving a car? I didn't seem to have any special abilities -- really, all I could do was drive and shoot. Ummm. OK.

Also, I kept getting video card crashes, leading to 10-20 second delays while the card reset itself. The final straw was when I got through the tutorial, and the faction's intro movie played, and I saw nothing and had no way to fix it. Yeah, I could have take the opportunity to go download some drivers or something, but I just wasn't captivated by what I'd seen in the tutorial.

So maybe there's this whole awesome game in there that, if I'd downloaded a new driver and fussed around and done the quests that follow the tutorial, I would have been really excited by. But I didn't get to see any of that. Every other game I've tried of this sort got me using my special powers immediately, so the message I received here was, "duuude! you get to DRIVE AROUND AND SHOOT PEOPLE -- POST APOCALYPTICALLY!"

It was pretty, though.