Thanks to the jolly nice folks at Sony Online Entertainment and Ubisoft, I was fortunate enough to be invited to take a sneak peek at the EQ2 beta. Having played the Original Everquest for 5 years, I'm probably a little biased. Having said that, however, when I first stepped into the "new" Norrath, set some 500 turbulent years after EQLive that old sense of mystery came back. A lot of old-timers equate EQ to their first kiss, and insist that the feeling of newness and awe can't be recreated, but EQ2 has worked very hard to simulate that emotion