Thu, Mar 01, 2012 | 21:06 GMT
The Secret World previews are in and the MMO sounds like a fun ride
During several immersion days in Funcom’s Oslo and Montreal offices, gaming press were invited exclusive access to The Secret World, and a link to all the impressions we can find are posted below.
Here’s the lot:
- IGN
- CVG
- Massively
- Destructoid
- VideoGamer
- MMORPG
- ZAM
- TenTonHammer
- Gamespy
- RockPaperShotgun
- PCGamer
- G4TV
- EscapistMagazine
The Secret World is out on June 19.
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Posted in: EA, MMO, PC
Tags: the secret world
5 comments
#1
YoungZer0
01/03/12, 9:19 pm
Such a great idea for a game simply ruined by being a MMORPG.
#2
TheWulf
02/03/12, 12:53 am
@1
Not so, you know better than that. Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG.
No, it’s ruined by still being a WoW clone. They may have stripped away levels, but ultimately levels are still an aesthetic. They found a new progression grind, and the combat remains pretty much the same as it was in WoW – just standing around and hitting a mob. There’s nothing more to it.
If you want to know why I say an MMO can be so, so much more, then please watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYj2QMEPRT0
We’ve never seen the likes of that in an MMORPG. Not ever. That’s why GW2 is so special, and if MMOs try to follow GW2′s template in the future, then we could be in for something very special.
The Secret World is ruined by being lackadaisical, pedantic, inane, and far too safe for its own good. It’s just another bloody WoW reskin. There’s nothing at all in TSW like the video I just linked above, and nor has there been in any of the WoW clones.
That’s why being an MMO doesn’t make something an automatic failure for me. It’s more how much of a WoW clone it is, as opposed to how risky it is in deviating from the WoW template.
#3
endgame
02/03/12, 9:05 am
Pay2Play? Thank you but, NO! Have fun playing it rich people!
#4
viralshag
02/03/12, 10:34 am
@2, While I agree that GW2 looks pretty amazing, I don’t think that’s the video to show off originality.
Platforming like that was actually in SWTOR. Some of the hidden datacrons were hidden in places I would never have though to look if it wasn’t for a friend showing me.
And again, as much as I’m looking forward to GW2, I’m not going to get sucked in like I did with TOR. There’s still action bars, which leads me to think the combat will not be that much far off the usual “standing around and hitting a mob.”
I might be wrong, I hope I am, but until I play the full game I will reserve judgement. I say full game because I managed to get a cheeky 10 minutes in at last years EuroGamer and I have to say, it was no different to any other action-bar MMO combat.
#5
YoungZer0
03/03/12, 5:06 am
@2:
“Not so, you know better than that. Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG.”
Yeah, and i think all MMORPG are nothing but a waste of time. Grind is important, storytelling completely ignored, gameplay boring. Sure you have some jump puzzles now, but we’ve seen better in every singleplayer game. Just imagine what Guild Wars 2 would be like if it was a singleplayer game. The fighitng doesn’t look very responsive.
Have you seen the promo videos to Secret World? With the Costantine-ripoff Character killing his enemiy through … mirrors (kind of hard to explain)? That was amazing.
But we will never see this in the game.
A four player coop would’ve been amazing.