We recently had a chance to take an updated look at EverQuest II, the online role-playing sequel from Sony Online Entertainment. Yes, EverQuest II is a massively multiplayer game, so yes, you'll still be creating a single character and exploring a persistent world to fight monsters, gain treasures, and build up experience levels with other players. However, the sequel will attempt to cut out many of the tedious aspects of this kind of game, like being forced to find a hunting party just to advance or not having anything to do. It's also being developed to be easy to learn for beginners, but as we recently saw, veterans of the original EverQuest will likely enjoy both the references to the original game and the all-new content.