Watch the first gameplay video of The Agency
by Samuel Axon 
Jan 8th 2008 at 7:30PM
Filed under: Video, New titles, The Agency, News items, Consoles, Spy, MMOFPS
Yesterday we handed out some new The Agency screenshots from SOE's CES presentation. That was cool enough, but in case you still weren't satisfied, there's a video of the presentation up on GameTrailers. Oh, and it's embedded above, obviously.
The presenter calls The Agency "24 meets Alias meets Counterstike," and that seems appropriate enough. The game can be played either in first person mode, or in a Mass Effect-esque over-the-shoulder perspective. It looks like you'll be able to run through instanced encounters with other players and/or NPCs, and there are scripted heroic moments in addition to the usual shoot-'em-up stuff. Our favorite moment occurs when the player revives a fallen ally with defibrillators.
It looks like the game borrows a lot from single-player game conventions, so it's not super innovative, but it's still refreshing to see an MMO that's not an action-bar-based, numeric-stat-grinding, sword & sorcery, D&D-style DikuMUD clone.
The presenter calls The Agency "24 meets Alias meets Counterstike," and that seems appropriate enough. The game can be played either in first person mode, or in a Mass Effect-esque over-the-shoulder perspective. It looks like you'll be able to run through instanced encounters with other players and/or NPCs, and there are scripted heroic moments in addition to the usual shoot-'em-up stuff. Our favorite moment occurs when the player revives a fallen ally with defibrillators.
It looks like the game borrows a lot from single-player game conventions, so it's not super innovative, but it's still refreshing to see an MMO that's not an action-bar-based, numeric-stat-grinding, sword & sorcery, D&D-style DikuMUD clone.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
akela.talamasca said on 12:10AM 1-09-2008
That's a breath of fresh friggin' air. I can't believe that's an MMO.
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PeZzy said on 2:31AM 1-09-2008
This video is several months old. I believe it was taken from an SOE "open house" day.
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Wuffus said on 3:18PM 1-09-2008
Soo... "Agency Moments" = Realtime cutscenes, gotcha.
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