The Secret World

[Zahdane]

For those of you who aren't familiar this is an upcoming MMO. I'm thinking it's going to be released this year sometime, but no concrete info.

Made by Funcom (Same guys who did Age of Conan)
It's going to be a 3 faction based game. There will be PVP but only in one zone for open world. I don't know about instanced pvp.

The really cool thing about this game, is there are no real classes.
You want to use a machine gun, a machete and call down lightning bolts? You can do that.
Think Modern Day secret societies (Illuminati, Templars and the Dragon) meet Lovecraftian horror.

Some videos. If nothing else they are cool to watch =)
http://www.thesecretworld.com/index.php/media/video/

[Restless]

3 factions is all I needed to hear.  I think that's been the fundamental flaw in every game since DAoC...only two factions.

[Faim]

EA bought FunCom too?

[Faim]

Which faction do you guys like the best?

Templar, Dragon, or Illuminati

From the looks of things, the Templar will be the least played.

[Faim]

The Secret World - Trailer for the Secret War experience

[Texwash]

EA is like fucking GE.

[Guessted]

Lame.  It looks like the global agenda AVA crap.

[Zahdane]

Well the most played is going to be Dragon most likely.
The reason being, the initial psyche profile labeled everyone as Dragon for the most part.
However, Illuminati from initial appearances could be the "Bad guys" or at least the rich assholes. So I'd rather not play Illuminati.

Templar does look like it will be the least played.

I'd do Templar or Dragon.

Also of note guys, the pvp is going to be limited to one zone from what I've read.
I don't know if there will be instanced pvp yet.

But no classes and no levels could be a nice change of pace. At least until GW2 comes out.

[Texwash]

I wanna play the least populated, but Illuminati looks cool.

[Texwash]

The Secret World Gameplay Walkthrough HD (cam) MMO

Very nice video.

Their PvP is scenario based.  But, no Huttball.   


But, it has grass.  WoW has grass.  It must be a WoW clone cause WoW invented grass. 

Seems like it is very quest heavy.  Since there are no levels you could PvP at anytime, I am assuming.

You get XP from crafting.  Sam will like that.

[Zahdane]

I like the implementation of the open quest. Very Warhammer and Rift with that.

And 500 skills to make a build from! That's is so awesome!

[Faim]

looks like a video game, WoW was a video game. Must be a WoW clone =/

[Dreadmage]

This game is nerd porn... I'm liking it already.   

[Dreadmage]

  Can't fucking wait! it's like swg with less grind from what it looks like.

[Faim]

I applied for beta, I'll post here if I get in.