Age of Conan Dev's New MMOG Dumps Levels
DateTime:9/27/2009 11:20:23 AM

"The Secret World begins where other MMOs end," Tornquist told Eurogamer in a lengthy interview. "There's no grind to get to a preconceived place." If you want to be a character that has some magic power and ranged combat, you can use a shotgun and a voodoo doll and you can kick some serious ass using just your fists and your feet; you can do that," Tornquist said. Your abilities, in turn, will influence which content you can solo and which you'll need a group to beat.It's not just straight realism, though - details are scarce, but the game looks to mix in occult and mythology, with Vertigo comics, Neil Gaiman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer as reference points. Of course, the big pull for anyone who's ever played an MMOG is loot.

In The Secret World, you can customize your appearance however you like, which means there's no armor to collect. So, The Secret World has no loot in the sense of pining over armor sets and hoping for gear to drop. Loot, as it were, exists in the form of weapons and special abilities: "[It] will definitely be the weapons and the powers you have, the cool special effects that you have, there will be ways to really see and differentiate - yeah, that guy's been playing this game a long time, and you can tell."