The coliseum (Warriors)
You've been playing this game that went from shit as hell graphics to a full VR immersion. But that was a test that thousands past. The real deal is in the Coliseum. You get there and it's only a large building, but on the inside it's.... just as boring until your fighting. VR is bullshit. Nothing can prep you for the real thing. I mean, you get to wear this metal suit and fight former players with live ammo. All the powers you remember using and think that they rocked, now you get to mix it up and add your own ideas, improve. Sure you only have so much power and this part is just the tryouts, but you can't help it, it's great. All this power you know was used in a war decades ago and you're using it for fun, lol.
After the tryouts with the thin suits you get offered this insane idea of turning into a robot. Your body is put in storage and your mind enters what RAM calls a Gem. It's a midget robot, but it weighs half a ton. You can spread yourself out and be like that old suit without a guy in it. Once you start fighting you only think that you can do human things like run hyper fast, jump high, and be stronger than anything, but that's only the surface. You can walk through walls, make yourself into mist, fly, and hack into things you find. Most anyone will choose Faze as their form because you get to keep changing the size of your collective self. Your powers can expand from the suit ones and you can even control time in more than one way.
The first place you go to fight is a large empty room the size of a city block cubed. You're fighting against 1000's of others who made it through everything you did to get this far. After the big cut down, the ones that made it to the last 500 went on and the rest kept on trying. Those 500 go into small rooms to fight one-on-one. You only get one power then. Then the 250 move on to larger rooms and you get 3 powers to fight as many as 10 others. Then there's the maze that's full of people trying to get to the top. Win that and you move on to a battle zone that has side lines.
In this place you get a prep area and 1 5 minutes to build an army or whatever you want. You get generators to make more power and then you start making your forces. Once the time runs out you have to send something into the battle part of the zone. Then you get to fight and build more while you fight.
In the next level you get your own town to make a base, work out how to set up defenses, and start you advance to your enemy. The wars on this level can last as long as any war in the past. So you better be ready it for the long haul. 3 more levels like that and you end up with your own planet. It's still a game, but this is large scale. And even then your only part way there. The last level is an all out galaxy per fighter war with 100's of fighters.
Now that you made it through the most anyone could, if you did, RAM himself calls you to fight against him in his "personal" arena. Both of you have what he calls a Univereon. It's a space station like the "Death star" but it's 2/3rds the size of the universe. He's not kidding either. The powers you have to control don't even touch the dinky shit you played with before. Now this is more like it. Win against him and RAM gives you your own universe to control and grow. You get to be like God for any planet you make life on. And best of all, it's never going to leave you as long as you don't threaten others universes. However, not many have ever beaten RAM at his game because he just knows his powers better at that magnitude. Some 30 odd people from Earth and others form other planets. Don't ask which ones, I don't know, but they get the better of him. Or at least he they get close.