The Secret World

[Tbone]

I find the cartoony graphics very strange compared to how seriously they are taking themselves. The character models look like they came from Team Fortress 2...

[ArchNemesis]

Yeah, i'm not one to complain much about graphics but... The games looks like a ps2 game

I couldn't care less if the game came out great though.

[Ragnarok]

Now come on guys the graphics aren't to bad and the game play looks awesome.

[Manic Velocity]

I actually don't mind the stylized look.  The models don't look too cartoony.  All the bodies... the human ones at least... are much more proportional than TF2 models.  They remind me of Sims 3 models more than anything else.

The trailer actually showed very little gameplay.  A few players attacking monsters for split seconds, but most of it was scripted.  But the chick doing the voice-over sounded super hot.  

[TinCanHitMan]

I’ve played Ragnar Tørnquist's previous games (the Longest Jouny, and Dreamfall). Every game he has worked on always carried a lot of emotional weight and small touches of humor. He is great at creating a functioning world from scratch (or in the case of his previous games two parallel worlds). I don’t know how well he would translate from single player to an MMO.
Regarding the stylized look for the characters I recommend playing Dreamfall, it shows that the look actually pushes the emotional aspects better than a photorealistic look. You can see his fingerprints all over at least the latest trailer; prophesy fate and the nature of the competition between good and evil including its balance are all themes that he has explored in his previous games. I just hope that after this game he makes another Dreamfall.

[Jeyk]

New Trailer:

http://www.thesecretworld.com/media

[Anamodiel]

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/404/feature/5045/The-Secret-World-Getting-a-Little-Less-Secret.html

PVP, missioning, and guild talk. Looks like it's going to be an interesting game!

[Phienyx]

I really like the premise of this game.

[Ragnarok]

The more I see this game the more I like it.

Did they just make a matrix reference?

[Heironymus]

Is it sad that my favorite bad guy boss on that video was the Trex?

[Tbone]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/118/1188088p1.html

The game is due out in April and starts accepting Beta apps in nine days.

Frankly I'm not as excited for this game as I once was. Especially considering this is going to come out AFTER TOR, I think it will feel pretty sophomoric in comparison. The one thing that sounds interesting is having to search for real life clues to figure out puzzles and what not, but even that could feel more like a frustration than a game enhancement.

[Mavin]

I've been following it for a few years and was highly interested, honestly thought at one time I was going to head to it instead of TOR . The secret societies and urban settings and puzzles really interested me. But the more they've released about it the less appealing it has become in recent months especially with the latest reveal. It feels like they took the game in a different direction at the last moment. Still going to check it out but yeah my interest has definitely fallen off as well, and poor timing on their part.

[Manic Velocity]

The one thing that sounds interesting is having to search for real life clues to figure out puzzles and what not, but even that could feel more like a frustration than a game enhancement.

Did you even play MxO?!

[Phienyx]

Still keeping an eye on that one myself.  Looks like it could go either way.

[likwidtek]

I'm assuming they're going to do a skill system ala Darkfall?  If so, we all saw what happened there...