Expansion Pack

Experience a fully interactive environment:
millions of textures, new objects introduced daily.
Authentic physical phenomena, including gravity,
behaviour of light on water, autumnal colouration
and sunsets rendered flawlessly in trillions of colours.
Hang out with your friends in real-time.
Watch them react and respond to your decisions.
Enjoy a near infinite variety of speech formulations,
including stuttering, lisps, dialects and other quirks.

Live your life the way you want to.
Be friendly or rude, loving or cold, generous or mean.
Maybe you will buy a home or join a commune.
You can even decide on your own political views!

With over six billion potential mates out there
– and no two characters the same –
it’s not going to be easy to find the perfect partner!
Fall in love with the wrong person? Oops,
you could lose decades in an empty marriage.
Meanhwhile, why not try and perfect
the art of sexual congress. Be creative –
there’s no right or wrong way to do it!

You may not even be aware of it
but each decision you make will shape your personality.
Every action has complex repercussions.
Just killed your wife?
You’d better dispose of the body quick-smart
if you don’t want to spend a lifetime in jail.
(Even in jail, things don’t slow down!
Will you become the prison librarian
or just work on your muscles?)

Trying to sneak into a rich country
on the underside of a train?
Watch out! Those border police
sure know how to treat a traveller.
Hugely complex and varied torture
possibilities. Almost every part of your body
is susceptible to pain. Experience emotions
such as panic, anxiety, hopelessness,
grief, frustration, tiredness and confusion.

You may decide to earn a lot of money,
but will money really make you happy?
There’s only one way to find out!

Or perhaps you will build a school in Chad?
Will this give you a sense of well being
or do you become aware of the patronising
and ultimately selfish relationship
between the poor and the rich.

You are fully changeable: piercings, tattoos,
disfigurements, amputations and wrinkles.
There are even worlds within the world.
Learn to scuba dive or fly a plane.
Perhaps you want to be an astronaut?
Or just play a space travel simulator?

All levels of difficulty are accommodated:
for those seeking a bigger challenge,
then the third world is for you. There are entire continents
dedicated to poverty, disease and famine.
Avoid thousands of distinctive diseases,
escape every kind of political genocide
and be the one in ten thousand
to make it out of the cruel cycle
of charity and oppression: maybe
you could even marry into wealth?
You’ve just got to make it past
your tenth birthday first!

Other challenging variables include ugliness,
hereditary skin conditions, stupidity, lack of ambition,
poor social skills, abusive parents, natural disasters,
and even straight-out bad luck!

And, just when you think you’ve got the hang of it:
everything gets tougher, the older you are.
How will you deal with a lowered
immune system, insufficient income,
and a paralysing fear of stepping out your own front door?
The young won’t help you, nor will the government.
No respect, no prospects, no power!
Those final years are going to be the toughest yet.
Watch out that those medical bills don’t mount up!
You have the same sex drive
you always had but this time round,
you don’t have the physical means to do anything about it!
Psychological fortitude is a must, if you’re to keep on top of things.

Every second of every day,
you make the decisions.
Join a fully immersive environment
played out across five fully compatible senses.

Until now, you haven’t lived.