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The Secret World
Funcom has released an extensive new video for its long talked-about MMORPG, The Secret World. The trailer showcases the game's striking environments and enemies over various developers from the team talking a big game about its freeform progression.
This video, while impressive, leaves me with the same impression I've had the last few times I've seen The Secret World. The game sounds great on paper, and the setting and art direction are both unusual and fascinating, but I'm not about to drink Funcom's Kool-Aid again. While I have high hopes for The Secret World, both of the company's previous games (Age of Conan and Anarchy Online) had significant warts marring their ambitious designs. Funcom representatives have gone to great lengths to reassure me that The Secret World won't make the same stumbles that those titles did – and I'll be happy to believe it just as soon as I see it for myself.
The Secret World is a modern-day MMORPG that follows three secret societies' struggle for domination of an Earth that plays host to just about every supernatural force ever hinted at by the mythology of history's innumerable cultures. With no classes or levels, players are able to build their avatar however they like as they participate in a personalized epic storyline.
Developed by Funcom and published jointly by Funcom and Electronic Arts, The Secret World has no official release date yet, though I expect it this year.
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