The Secret World: The TLDR review

After weeks of playing the beta and now the release of Funcom’s The Secret World, here’s the short version of all those posts condensed into a nice, handy pocket review you can take with you anywhere.

Good:

• Dark, ominous atmosphere set in a modern environment.
• A nice variety of quests, including some good puzzle quests.
• The skill system is open, giving players lots of latitude for building their characters.

Bad:

• The worse character designer in pay-to-play MMOs.
• Combat is dull. Auditory and visual effects are blase. Combat animations are boring.
• It is a very buggy world, to the point the bugs directly affect gameplay (e.g. Some quests are bugged.).
• The game lacks convenience features, such as a group finder.
• There’s little direction for new players, so it’s easy to get lost and maybe frustrated.

Final verdict:

Avoid. Unless you really need a dark, urban horror fix, just avoid this one.