Funcom and EA Partners have inked a deal to co-publish Funcom’s long-in-development MMO The Secret World, EA announced this morning in a press release. No release date was mentioned.
For those of you who haven't been keeping up with your once-shelved MMOs, The Secret World looks like it could be an ambitious endeavor for the Age of Conan developer. Funcom isn't going to use the standard character-class-and-level-up model in The Secret World. Instead, it'll focus on abilities, allowing for some sort of extensive character customization without the MMO grind or pre-defined talent builds.
And it won't be set in yet another world inspired by Tolkien. The Secret World takes place in a modern setting, though its "real world" is one in which secret societies have pull and people have superpowers. Oh, and also monsters. Gotta fight something I guess.
“Players will get the opportunity to join one of the three secret societies and fight for power over important locations throughout our own world,” David DeMartini, GM of EA Partners said in a statement. “Players will also journey through familiar places across the globe, such as Egypt, New England, London, New York and Seoul and battle monsters of myth and legend.”
Funcom plans to release The Secret World on the PC and the Xbox 360, though I wouldn't keep my hopes up for the latter version. Not only did EA neglect to mention it in today's announcement, but Funcom also has yet to follow through on its Age of Conan Xbox port.
@Sedasys: Whatever, man. As far as I'm concerned, if it is WoW, it's not very good. I've heard nothing about WoW that makes me interested in playing the game. Ever.
This game is NOT anything related to The Longest Journey so whatever. Seeing how it's coming from Ragnar Tørnquist I think it is a safe bet that it will include women walking around in their panties at one point of the game though.
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