[url]www.darkdaysarecoming.com[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World[/url]
I just got an email from Funcom, the makers of Anarchy Online, and you can now take a test to earn beta access. I'm not sure if this is old news, or whatever, since I just got the email, and it seems new. Anyways, copypasta from the site.
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Imagine if every myth, conspiracy theory and urban legend was true. Imagine if your worst nightmare came to life. Imagine a world where vampires hunt for mortal blood in dingy London nightclubs, where werewolves lurk in the sewers beneath Seoul, and where the undead prey on the living in the shadows of New York City. This is the premise for «The Secret World», Funcom's upcoming massively multiplayer online game set in the modern day real world.
•Urban environments - Throw yourself into the bustling urban environments of New York, London and Seoul. Shop for clothes, weapons and accessories. Stop by the local nightclub to socialize with your friends before heading out into the darkness that is slowly encroaching on the city streets.
•Real-world locations - Discover real-world locations throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. From New England to Egypt, explore vast lands full of detail and story as you unravel the myths, legends and conspiracies of the world through a unique, story-driven gameplay experience.
•Freeform gameplay - Experience a game that has no classes or levels. Truly freeform character customization allows you to create the alter-ego you want to play, and gameplay that goes beyond the usually rigid MMO structure allows you to play the game the way you want to play it.
•Hundreds of powers - Wield fiery katana, gold-plated pistols, and deadly automatic rifles. Learn martial arts, black magic and voodoo. Choose from hundreds of powers to create a character completely customized to your liking.
•Action-packed combat - Lose yourself in the most intense real-time action-packed combat system ever. Aim, strafe, shoot – movement is key as bullets fly past you and explosions threaten to tear you apart. Swords or firearms, magic and melee, each offering a similarly intense, reactive combat experience.
•Secret societies - Join the Illuminati, the Templars or the Dragon - the three secret societies that pull the strings of our world. Work your way to the top, earn titles and rewards, and play a key role in the battle for world domination.
•Player-made organisations - Create or join player-made organisations called cabals. Create your own headquarters, and decorate and furnish it to your liking. All cabals are ranked against each other, and a cabal's success will bring fame, fortune and power to its members.
•Track your progress - Earn points for everything you do - from combat and exploration, to trade skills and PvP - in order to rank high on both local and global scoreboards, gain titles and worldwide acclaim, and help make your secret society the most powerful and influential of them all.
•Intense player vs. player combat - Take part in ferocious, non-stop player vs. player action in the Battle for Hollow Earth. Fight to control anima, a priceless resource deep within the bowels of our world that will bring unprecedented power to whichever cabal that collects it
•Next-generation graphics - Featuring the latest in cutting-edge graphics technology, explore beautifully realized real-world locations that will truly set the standard for next-generation massively multiplayer online games. Prepare for an audiovisual experience unlike anything seen before.
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Sorry about the lack of original content, I just wanted to bring people's attention to this game.
Artwork:
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And here's some information about the different factions.
[quote]Templars
"Deliverance From Evil"
Crusaders. Judges. The Holy Terror. The Templars are the world's least secretive secret society. Their military-ideological machine has operated in plain sight since Babylon - a matter of pride, or moral superiority. Conspiracy theorists, obsessed with the minor 'Knights Templar' offshoot, underestimate the Templars' true European empire. Private armies. Members of parliaments. Royal families.
The Templars believe they will deliver the world from evil by force, and even their opponents - who call them zealots and warmongers - cannot deny that force. As an agent of the Templars you are not just fighting the war on darkness, you "are" the war on darkness. Suave and sophisticated, but brutal and uncompromising, you use history as a weapon to shape the future.
Few will stand in the way of the Templars' banner. Do you have the will to stand behind it?
HQ located in London, they have a huge presence there in plain view.
-Old blood, new veins
-Tradition and honour above all
-Righteous and holy crusaders
-They don't participate in the war on evil. They are the war on evil
The Templars and Illuminatti are archenemies, the Templars pushed the Illuminati out of Europe centuries ago (from the TTH faction's video)
"they are old-school" "they have been fighting evil for thousands of years and they've been doing with extreme prejudice"
They are traditionalist, but there are changes with the new blood coming to make sure they are in tune with the times, not all is in control by the "withered old men" anymore.
brinstar: On TSW forums players are associating Templars with Christianity. Will the devs distance the faction from religion?
RT: Templars aren't about Christianity. They're about Faith. Which is different. And also about kicking demon ass.
Illuminati
"Sex, Drugs & Rockefeller"
Notorious bad boys and girls of the secret world, the Illuminati are also the most ambitious, cut-throat and furtive of the secret societies.
From the gilded halls of the ancient pharaohs to the private clubs and the decadent parties of the famously rich and egocentrically famous, from leaders of industry and Hollywood agents to presidents and popes, the Illuminati have weaved their intricate web with ruthless cunning and acute skill.
They rule their corporate pyramid with cold opportunism, and only the strongest members survive. Their secrets can make you rich and powerful beyond compare - or they may destroy your soul and sanity with it
The Illuminati seek to plunder heaven and hell by any means necessary, and god help those who stand in their way.
As a member of the Illuminati, you don't play by anybody's rules. There are no rules. There is no honour.
There is only victory.
HQ located in New York, underground, under an abandoned warehouse
-Ruthless ambitious corporate puppet masters
-The most secretive of secret societies
-The bad boys and girls of the occult world-party hard, work harder
-"Do or get done" -survival of the fittest
"these guys are much more about re-inventing themselves rather than being still stuck in the past. These guys are the archenemies of the Templars"
"they have contacts on different levels of governments, the corporations, they are the guys that, don't deal with the president, but wine and dine with the people of the west wing and the chiefs of staff, they are more subtle than the Templars"
"they believe in showing off money, showing off power, not revealing who they belong to"
"they have a very strict pyramid structure and is not about what your family is but about your accomplishments, and at any time anybody can get stabbed in the back by the next guy"
"these guys are pretty hardcore"
Dragon
"The Art of Chaos"
Manipulators and conspirators, the Dragon have survived for millennia by playing their enemies against each other. Since before the first empire, through the aggression of the Mongol Khans and the ebb and tide of the political change, a whisper in the right ear, a strategic assassination, alliance carefully crafted and broken - and the world eventually bends to the patient will of the immortal Dragon.
With a spiritual and philosophical approach to the secret crafts, as an acolyte of the Dragon you are taught to listen, shown how to teach others, and expected to respect the balance of the universe and to be humble in the face of fate. Yours is not the path of force, though force is often needed to clear the path.
Few know of the Dragon and their long history, and that is how the Dragon want it. You are invisible but pervasive, silent but all-knowing, and when the other secret societies have decimated each other, you will rebuild the world from the ruins of their arrogance.
The Dragon is too easily underestimated, but those who do so live to regret it - or die before they get the chance.
HQ in Seoul, inside a Buddhist monastery they they use as cover front.
-The Art of War is Chaos and Deception -"the true Sun Tzu"
-Unknowable, chaotic and anarchic: a puzzle box
-Manipulators and agitators in the factional war
-Harmony is achieved through creating chaos
-Balance isn't stillness -It's constant motion -and only the Dragon understand this
-The Dragon actions make sense only to the Dragon
"Not as well known as the Templars or the Illuminati, of course, but they've been working behind the scenes for a very long time"
"Orchestrating chaos is important for order to emerge"
"The Dragon believes they are the only ones that really understand everything"
"they've always been, sort of, between the other societies, pulling the strings, setting them up against each other to make sure that they are always, at the end of the day, left standing, without too many deaths, without too many wounds"[/quote]
And two videos:
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=lsLXQEeLiI0[/media]
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=woBJX-KSH_k[/media]
Wow, surprisingly that sounds really cool.
[QUOTE=deathrat;17836874]Wow, surprisingly that sounds really cool.[/QUOTE]
I think so too, and I liked Anarchy Online, but it's almost dead online, hopefully this game will attract a better audience... Hmmm... i'm going to put some screenies in the OP, if I can find some.
[QUOTE=Burnyhands;17836904]I think so too, and I liked Anarchy Online, but it's almost dead online, hopefully this game will attract a better audience... Hmmm... i'm going to put some screenies in the OP, if I can find some.[/QUOTE]
Oh shit, I liked Anarchy too, didn't notice the Funcom part.
[img]http://cdn.funcom.com/tsw/screenshots/tsw_screen_2.jpg[/img]
Haha, this thing looks sweet.
I signed up and joined the [img]http://cdn.funcom.com/tsw/crm/factions/illuminati/illuminatilogo.gif[/img] What were you guys?
I really hope they do this right.
[editline]09:32PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=Cup;17836983]*awesome image*
Haha, this thing looks sweet.
I signed up and joined the Illuminati [img]http://cdn.funcom.com/tsw/crm/factions/illuminati/illuminatilogo.gif[/img] What were you guys?[/QUOTE]
I was The Dragon.
[editline]09:34PM[/editline]
Holy shit [img]http://cdn.funcom.com/tsw/screenshots/tsw_screen_3.jpg[/img] Awesome screenie.
I got the Templars. That was a fun test.
I can't take the test because it complains about something wrong with my browser or some shit.
I picked Dragons, it told me to be templar though :frown:
Illuminati
I used chrome and it works. I am perfect for the Dragons.
Illuminati.
The world will see the true light, and be blinded by its power.
Dragons! Wooh! Anyone know if this will be free, have a subscription fee, one time purchase fee, cash shop, etc.?
It's funcom, you know the guys that made Age of Conan and Anarchy Online? Of course it is gonna be monthly fee.
[editline]10:36PM[/editline]
I just thought of something! If this game is about Urban Legends, then Slenderman might be in it!
Looks pretty kick ass..
Fuck yeah I got Templar!..
[img]http://costeira.com/upl/uploads/Goldplateddeagle.png[/img]
I'm sorry, but is this a [B]GOLD PLATED DEAGLE[/B]?
Oh wait, wrong subforum.
Looks awesome, and I got Dragon.
[QUOTE=Wii60;17839567]Theroy: Wii60 is a dragon?[/QUOTE]
I'm also a Dragon. :smug:
Templar :dance:
Heh. I'm a deist so kinda funny that I got Illuminati, or well, maybe not so much.
Fuck yeah Dragons.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;17837709]It's funcom, you know the guys that made Age of Conan and Anarchy Online? Of course it is gonna be monthly fee.
[editline]10:36PM[/editline]
I just thought of something! If this game is about Urban Legends, then Slenderman might be in it![/QUOTE]
Well why would it have a monthly fee? I've played Anarchy Online for more than a year - for free.
But sure, I think it will have one... :) No matter, it looks so awesome!
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;17837709]
I just thought of something! If this game is about Urban Legends, then Slenderman might be in it![/QUOTE]
Sincerely doubt it, slender man was made by SomethingAwful within the last year, and people argue over what he looks like so there's no accurate description of him.
Holy, wrong thread v:v:v
i had a look around, tryed the test, apparently im suited for the Templars :P
Screw it, Picked Templars xD
[QUOTE=Highwind017;17844427]i had a look around, tryed the test, apparently im suited for the Templars :P
Screw it, Picked Templars xD[/QUOTE]
Templar here aswell!
[img]http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/84441946/210942[/img]
Oh yeah, I remember reading about this years ago while it was still in concept art stage.
Got Templar on the test.
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