And yet, until a certain moment, I still felt a sense of disconnect as I watched it being played inside Funcom’s Norwegian headquarters.īecause my real world isn’t stalked by zombies.

It’s set on Earth, our Earth, in our day. It’s a recognisable town, with real-world buildings, populated by human beings as its NPCs. It looks years ahead, gorgeous depictions of the real world, best shown off in its New England town, Kingsmouth. The Secret World is a defiantly different-looking MMO, bearing in nothing in common with WoW and its many, many clones. The real world is a difficult place to depict.

We also have four exclusive new screenshots, which you'll only have to click on to enjoy. Below is my report on where things are just now, which I'm pleased to report is somewhere genuinely exciting. I mean, it could just be one heck of an elaborate conspiracy. But having spent a couple of days in their Norwegian HQ, I'm reasonably convinced it exists. Funcom's The Secret World is five years deep into development, and still some way off.

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