Secret World is a new breed of MMO's it takes you away from the fantasy setting of old days and keeps you in the modern time. It doesn't exactly follow what other MMO's have with the World of Warcraft model and that's a good thing.
The Secret World revolves around three factions/sects/cults whatever you want to call them. They are The Dragon, Illuminati and the Templars. You play the role of a human infused with a magic bee from Gaia that grants you powers and other abilities you'll see through the game story. It takes place on earth in a modern setting so you have some familiarity with what you experience. I just can't help to not like a game where I fight werewolves, vampires, fairies and other super natural monsters; while not being trapped in the past or future setting. Doing all of this while wielding two pistols, a rifle or using magic all in a modern setting.
You go through a story based on your faction that introduces you to the world and to the possible skills and abilities you would like to use. Those factions have their own set story and ideals on how the world should be affected or protected by them. Each weapon has two separate skills that go with them one being your damage skill or the other being a support, healing, or tank styled skill. You do not have levels to fall back on but as you do missions and kill monsters you gain experience points that grants you points after gaining so many. You can spent those points on your choice weapons to gain new abilities to use.
This leads to you can group with your friends, and not limited by a number. Though you won't be able to go everywhere with them like the dungeons due to your equipment but at least they can follow you on your own questing and still gain experience points.
Game Play - The combat is your basic point, click and hit a button. You have abilities that stun or weaken the monster you're fighting which can help give you a little time to either get away or set up your position. You just only have 7 active abilities and 7 passives unlike some of the games where your whole screen could be filled up with macros to perform a certain attack or spell. What they added in is the ability to roll, or jump out of the way when a white circle is under you; right before the enemy hits with an attack in that area. It's not flashy but it works, to what some others may say.
Graphics - You have some beautiful scenes to gaze upon. Nothing like watching the sun, disappear from the horizon; even though the land is covered in black gunk from the evil you're suppose to be paying attention to. There are some graphic flaws with the cut scenes where not everything clashes together or your hair sticks out from a under a hat; it's still new so they can be easily fixed as are most things when a new game is released. They're not mind blowing, or explosive styles of graphics but I won't or don't expect that much yet; not till everyone can upgrade their computer to the best system or you won't have many players in that game (marketing and money all that stuff that gets involved in this).
Story - I liked the main quest line, following on the trail of a guy in search of power and watching his world crash around him. Every quest character I meet had some interesting appeal to them, especially when I went to the desert and one guy was performing with an imaginary guitar. Though some of their stories seem to drift off to them talking with themselves (your character never says a word) you tend to hit the button and skip that part to get to the killing part. You can be drawn in to their story or shrug your shoulders and move on. They are at least scripted well with the movement and talking, with only a few glitches to them walking into a wall and not realizing it.
PVP - It's not something I've always loved but I gave it a try. Though these styles of games in the beginning will be fun to play but as the game ages and people gear up/skill up you start to see how broken they become. With the right skills you can be almost unstoppable having everyone's attention on your while your team picks them off one by one. It can get annoying without your own skills to try and counteract that. I just find this is where a game starts to fail as the developers are trying to improve skills but then it takes away from the other part of the game.
It's sad that not everyone knows of the Secret World yet (mostly due to Funcom's tract record of games) and it may be covered up some by the release of Guild Wars 2; but I think Secret World is a nice game to play if you want something different then the World of Warcraft games that are currently strangling the market.
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