The Secret World

[bryant]

My current secret MMO crush is Funcom’s The Secret World, which will be a modern dark fantasy conspiratorial MMO. I don’t expect much from it, which is why it’s a crush — the ideas are hot but as much as I want to like each and every Funcom MMO, there’s always been a bit of a gap between concept and execution. Hope springs eternal nonetheless.

Now there is a trailer, which will probably not bear that much resemblance to game play. There is also a sort of informative interview. Starting locations will be London, New York, and Seoul. I so much want this game to be good.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Please please please let this be good.

[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

Agreeeeed.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Seoul? Awesome.

[head58.livejournal.com]

On a 3rd watching, I'm now bothered by the fact that the writing on the milk carton and blender are not in Hangul. Why explicitly flavor it Japanese if Tokyo isn't the starting location? Not like Funcom is Japanese. hurm.

[head58.livejournal.com]

(okay, Mr Hate may have been a little strong there, but I don't have a Mr Confused & slightly bothered icon)

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

And it's on the XBox, that is killer. I wonder if PC servers can interact with XBox ones?

I'll totally play this, btw. I wish more MMOs were on the XBox. Well, maybe not "wish," considering I'd likely be sucked in hard. :)

[foxbat.livejournal.com]

They have some awesome people working on it; it's a pretty exciting project. I'm looking forward to it as well.

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Wow. That looks impressive. I wonder if gameplay looks anything nearly as good as the trailer. Far too often the difference between a trailer and gameplay or even concept art and gameplay are HUGE. Nice concept, though. Have to say, she reacts much more quickly than I would if I were surprised while drinking a smoothie.

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

That looks pretty damn cool.