OXCGN’s The Secret World Review: A secret best kept or shared?

Posted on 9 August, 2012 by dkpatriarch

OXCGN’s The Secret World Review

A secret best kept or shared?

by Caleb Maxted

© 2012 Caleb Maxted

From Funcom, the creators of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, comes The Secret World, an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) set in the modern-day, with exciting gameplay that will capture your attention for many hours on end.

If you enjoy thrashing zombies with or without your friends and having a choice from hundreds of special abilities, then look no further than The Secret World.

Funcom has created an interesting MMORPG with a difference; you aren’t a medieval warrior, ranger or mage and you aren’t a sci-fi space captain.

In this game you will find yourself starting as just a local citizen in a warped version of our modern-day reality with a weapon, with the potential to become practically a god with cool skill-based powers that you can choose from.

Mythology and legends come alive and infest our world, and as a member of one of three ‘secret society’ factions, the Templars, the Illuminati and the Dragon, you must survive and prevail against the odds.

The Secret World review here

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WIN! The Secret World T-Shirts from EA Australia

Posted on 11 July, 2012 by dkpatriarch

WIN!  The Secret World T-Shirts from EA Australia

Join the Illuminati, Templars, or Dragons!

by David Hilton

© 2012 David Hilton

I love secrets.

Especially the ones people share with me and make me promise not to tell anyone (which I promptly find someone else to tell).

EA have just released The Secret World, a massively multiplayer online game set in our own, modern-day world.

The player is a member of one of three secret societies, the Illuminati, the Templars, or the Dragon.

Conspiracies abound.

Creatures walk our streets.

And secrets are revealed…(not by me though; I’d of course never do that!)

The Secret World Competition here

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Xbox Originals – Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Review

Posted on 3 June, 2008 by Ben Cad

Xbox Originals – Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

New character Zoe Castillo a welcomed sight.

by Shadow Wave

© 2008 Ben Cadwallader

“`Following the events of the original game, The Longest Journey on the PC, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey adds a new main character and tries to leave behind the point and click game play and replace it with general 3rd person controls, combat and simpler puzzles to attract a larger audience. While the new game play doesn’t quite work as well, the game still maintains a superb story.

“`The games new character – Zoe Castillo is first seen in what seems to be her death bed, which then follows the common storyline technique of going back and explaining how she got to that point in time. That really works quite well because as the player, you keep making new theories as you play to the reasoning of how she became ill.

The real beginning of the game starts out on Stark (Our Scientific Earth) in a place called Casablanca, where you basically follow your day to day life, throughout the town, go to the gym, and meet some friends. To the original game, they try to build up the emotional links early in the story.

More review and pics after the jump:-

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Coming in Under the Radar – Part 3

Posted on 6 February, 2008 by

Coming In Under The Radar – Part 3

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

by sithlordjim:

©2008 Jim (James) McIntyre

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3. Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Published by: Eidos Interactive
Developed by: Funcom
Genre: Online Action Rpg
Release Date: Q2 2008

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games have never had much success on consoles. Funcom is looking to change that this year with Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The reason this one has made it to the list is simple, nobody seems to realize its coming out on the Xbox360 as well as the PC. That and it looks really good.

Firstly you will create a character from a fairly detailed character creation menu. You do not get to pick your class straight away, but instead you pick your race from one of three races Aquilonian, Cimmerian or Stygian. At level five you choose your class. This means that you get to figure out what you are doing before being forced to make such an important decision. The classes are priest, rogue, soldier, and mage.

From level one to twenty you can choose to play by yourself or online, but once you reach level twenty the game becomes a completely online game. Also at level twenty you get to choose your class specialization. For some classes the specialization options differ depending on the race you have chosen.

Leveling looks like it will play out the same as most MMO’s with the player completing quests and generally killing things to gain experience to level up. The developer has said that there will not be as many grinding quests as in most online games and that many of the quests will involve puzzles that require solving.

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All that is pretty much standard fare for MMO’s, with players leveling, forming guilds, and fighting each other. Although unlike most MMO’s this game is dark, violent, and mature, but where AoC:HA really sets itself apart is both the combat and the cities.

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