Mike Davis

“The Secret World” game has Cthulhu?

So I just received an email from The Secret World, letting me know that early access begins June 29 (you can pre-order here, and no, they are not paying me, but they can give me a free game for review if they want!)

But that’s not the real news: At the bottom of the email were three small game screenshots.  Look at the one on the right; it is clearly Cthulhu.  It has been rumored that this game has Lovecraftian elements; looks like it’s true.

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10 comments

  1. While not “Lovecraft” exactly, it serves very well for me as a Delta Green campaign MMO, substituting the Templars for Delta Green, the Illuminati for MJ12, and the Dragon for… any other secret society your campaign takes seriously.

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  2. My first impression: take Scooby Doo, make it more mod, add access to magic and automatic weapons and place the gang in a very open world.

    (I swear on one-page I saw Velma, scowling and toned on one page, wielding a chainsaw–rawrrrrr…)

    And if I read one page right, you can even have the dog.

    If there were a stand-alone console version, I would be so all over this…

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  3. I got into beta as well. My biggest gripe is that it doesn’t “feel” Mythos. There’s really no feeling of fighting something mysterious and other worldly. No sense of urgency or horror at all. The environments are massive and artistically well done with no game crushing bugs, other than some optimization issues, but the quests become repetitive and boring very fast. I really wanted to love this game and would like it to succeed but it’s just missing “something”.

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  4. I got in on the beta too, and was hooked. Do yourself a favor and pick it up! As a gamer, themes aside, this is one of the best MMO’s I’ve played in a while.

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  5. I played the beta over this past weekend, did a little review of it on my blog. He’s the final boss in the Polaris dungeon. Not thee “Chthulu,” they gave him another name, but could possibly be his cousin. And yes, there’s lots of Lovecraftian elements in the game–I’d say that was one of their sources of inspiration given how many references there were within the game, such as a street named “Lovecraft Lane.” 🙂

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