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Funcom’s Secret World Skills Progression Video

Funcom has released a new developer diary video for ‘The Secret World’, the company’s upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online game. Let Lead Designer Martin Bruusgaard and Lead Content Designer Joel Bylos enlighten you on how to develop your own unique character through an imaginative and strong new role-playing system without classes and levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=H1MeETdH9NM

I’ve got to say that this is one of the most innovative systems for an MMO that I’ve seen. It will keep players from getting bored at having to always be the healer or the tank or the ranged DPS guy through 75 levels of play. I think they are really onto something.

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John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.