Enter a New World: The Secret World Review

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Enter a New World: The Secret World Review

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:40pm 11/07/12 | 12 Comments

There are countless "me-too" MMOs around, so when a developer goes above and beyond to not only make something fairly anti-WoW in aesthetic, but to also shake-up established MMO foundations across the board, it's worth sitting up and listening.

We gave James Pinnell review duties for the recently launched The Secret World from Funcom, you know, those guys behind *cough Conan *cough*. Don't let that hold you back though, as throughout the game's press touring we've learnt that the team are more than aware of their former MMO outing's shortcomings and all have been addressed here, as James discovers.

Click here for his in-depth review.

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Raazel
Posted 01:32pm 11/7/12

Sounds a bit better then expected; although, reading into it the bugs and errors are what drives me away from buying the game.

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Khel
Posted 01:43pm 11/7/12

Well, I can only speak from my personal experience, but I haven't encountered very many bugs at all. A couple of minor UI glitches (like advanced tooltips turning off by themselves), and 2 quests have bugged out and been uncompleteable (which have both now been fixed in last nights patch), but apart from that its been a pretty smooth experience for me. Haven't really had any problems with latency, and servers haven't been crashing and stuff, and the client hasn't crashed on me (except for when I had old drivers installed and tried to hack in an SLI profile).

If you have an nvidia card, grab the latest beta drivers, they have profiles for The Secret World added.

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Taqtik
Posted 01:45pm 11/7/12

I actually might check this out after reading the review. It looks like my kind of MMO.

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Dazhel
Posted 02:25pm 11/7/12

Any game that gets 15-16 angry Obes out of 10 must be good.

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Khel
Posted 03:07pm 11/7/12

I'm still getting over the shock of an Obes post full of praise and positivity, this game has shattered my pre-conceptions of reality

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Zapo
Posted 03:09pm 11/7/12

I haven't had many bugs, but the bugs I have had have stopped me from completing quests. That's poop.

Still, it's not a bad game, enjoying it.

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Khel
Posted 03:18pm 11/7/12

I haven't had many bugs, but the bugs I have had have stopped me from completing quests.

Was it the ravens in Kingsmouth not working? Cos those have been fixed now in the patch last night (thats one that didn't work for me). The other one that didn't work for me was in Savage Coast, where you're meant to get ambused by some Phoenician mercs but the ambushers never show up, but thats been fixed too in the patch last night apparently.

Its pretty cool with the cross-server play though, cos when I couldn't complete that one in Savage Coast cos it was bugged, I got typo to invite me into a group so I could jump accross to his server and I did the quest there, because it wasn't bugged on his server.

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Ivonin
Posted 03:33pm 11/7/12

I'm loving it, so happy they changed the animations for dual pistols from beta. Kicks so much arse. I honestly can't stop playing it =D

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Fuzzy
Posted 04:33pm 11/7/12

Far exceeded my expectations. This was an on the fence purchase for me, but so glad I ended up buying it.

Besides the mission bugs that pretty much everyone encountered, and a glitch I encountered on the last boss in the third dungeon (Which helped us more then hinder) I didn't really experience any problems.

Dragon member rocking Blade and AR <3

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