Our play session ended with a crawl through two of the game’s dungeons, taking us through the bowels of Egypt’s pyramids, and then onto Hell. This search led us to an Edgar Allen Poe that was tied to cryptography, and one of my brilliant team members was able to reverse that cryptography to come up with the password! This sent all four of us to Google, using the game’s built-in browser to comb Wikipedia and other sites for clues. One such mission had my team and I trying to hack a computer with only a few hints pulled off a dead body for a password. Some of the missions, like the combat-free investigations, are so unconventional that I think some MMO players are going to find themselves wearing their thinking caps for the first time. It’s also a good example of how TSW isn’t afraid to take a break from standard MMO combat for a bit. This is just one of the game’s many examples of how Funcom’s team enjoys sending players on a bit of hunt. Kicking the door down didn’t work we eventually learned that we needed to take down cultists so that we could use their clothing to sneak in. We eventually encountered a suspicious villager that we tailed, stealth style, to later find that she and others entered a secret door in the mountains. Unlike other MMOs, where you would devise an attack plan and go in with guns-a-blazing, we were sent on wild chases around the city looking for leads. We set out to find out a bit more about the angry cultists that were sneaking about the area’s main city and surrounding homes. In Egypt I joined a group with three others to take on some of the area’s many missions together. I cannot stress enough how enjoyable the story segments of TSW are. Again, they’ve made it to where NPC dialogue is a treat and not a chore.
He may be rotting a bit, with some of his body oozing through his otherwise sharp suit, but he’s surprisingly up on secret society happenings for a three-thousand year old corpse. For example, my first interaction there was with a fast-talking mummy in a three-piece suit and hat, talking on a cell phone.
I felt a bit better about myself after hearing that this section of the game comes up after some 60 hours of play.įor as difficult as it was, there is a lot of fun to be had in the Scorched Desert. I thought I would be able to hang with the big boys with my prior experience, but was quickly put in my place by the stiff challenge and 3-4 skull (TSW’s 1-5 enemy difficulty rating system) baddies. In fact, the NPCs are crafted so well that I found myself exhausting dialogue trees.Īfter making it to HQ and through the first training mission, I set off to sunny Egypt, to an area called the Scorched Desert, where I was far too busy fighting off crazed cultists and monster scorpions to enjoy the scenery. I think it’s safe to say that you’ve never seen MMO NPCs this entertaining. My contact turned out to be a crazed conspiracy theorist that dropped a constant stream of one-liners and pop culture references, mentioning D&D groups, Pac-Man, ramen, the Death Star and pop-up porn ads in the same breath. Last time I was a Templar runnng around in stuffy old London, but this time I played as an Illuminati new recruit, and I started out by poking around a crappy New York laundromat to find my contact to lead me to the Illuminati headquarters. The start of a day-long play session began much like my last one, where my character saw his start in one of the game’s three factions - The Illuminati, The Templars and The Dragons.
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