Watch CES footage of The Agency

by Andrew Yoon { Jan 7th 2008 at 4:45PM }

It's been a long time since we last heard from SOE about their upcoming PS3/PC MMO action game, The Agency. There's a lot of potential in this online initiative. Watch the SOE presentation from the CES show in Las Vegas, and tell us what you think. It appears the game isn't delivering on every level, but the concept has us excited.

[Via NeoGAF]

Tags: ces-2008, mmo, soe, the-agency

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Trev @ Jan 7th 2008 4:55PM

I would be lying if I said it looked good now, but for something with months (at least) of development left I'd say it has promise.

brianjcarroll @ Jan 7th 2008 5:03PM

the idea seems really cool and fun, but the graphics and sound kinda blow. Let's hope they clean em up a bit, cuz right now it looks like CS beta 3.0

drdre74 @ Jan 7th 2008 5:01PM

the animation on the A.I. was really bad. They look like stick figures. Game just looks stiff to me. As of right now not something I'd want to buy.

Organic_Shadow @ Jan 7th 2008 5:14PM

Umm, these are old videos BTW. Saw them on PS3Forums before CES even started...

Dru @ Jan 7th 2008 5:20PM

It says it's footage from CES (probably from today) and the host repeats over and over that this is live. I don't think this is something old.

DarkPanic @ Jan 7th 2008 9:09PM

Umm.. it was RECORDED live.. as in.. it wasn't a pre-rendered simulation.

This is the same video I saw in Vegas at Sony's FanFaire in August, but there was another segment or two of gameplay.

The video is surely at least 5 months old, and even then it was stated that it was on a very very early version of the game engine, and would be visually improved. They stressed that this was just to illustrate some of the gameplay elements.

finelicker @ Jan 7th 2008 5:19PM

Makes me laugh when the guy says, "what you're seeing here is actual gameplay"

Really ?!?, I thought it was CG (sarcasm)

Seriously, it looks like ass.

sicklesdawg @ Jan 7th 2008 5:24PM

Tt has promise...As for the graphics KEEP IN MIND its also a pc game for the masses unlike Crytek.

RagingStormX @ Jan 7th 2008 5:26PM

LMFAO @ #5......I am glad that I am not the only one who thinks it looks like hot garbarge. I think I am gonna have to go ahead and say no to this.....yeahhh......NO!

RagingStormX @ Jan 7th 2008 5:27PM

@ #6 I mean.. lol, my bad!

PSPDog @ Jan 7th 2008 5:29PM

At the end of the video, he said it is due out next year, so there's plenty of time to clean up the graphics.

Organic_Shadow @ Jan 7th 2008 5:29PM

If you guys would have actually read the posts on NeoGAF you would see that a lot of these people have seen the footage a long time ago.

As in E307. THIS IS NOT FROM CES. I SAW IT 2 DAYS AGO, AND WAS LABELED OLD AT THAT TIME.

ConorBuckley @ Jan 7th 2008 6:25PM

The graphics are bad but they will have loads of time to fix that efore release. It is a great idea for a game and I hope it works.

Popfrogs @ Jan 7th 2008 7:10PM

Yep, indeed this is old footage from last year, probably last year's E3 or even before that. Aznsniper: one shot, one miss.

Dehshizknight @ Jan 7th 2008 7:56PM

This game looks really cool and shows some potential so I would buy it but not if there is a subscription fee on this since there are much better MMO's coming out for PS3 (like the NCSoft IP's).

Joe @ Jan 7th 2008 8:59PM

This game really needs a make over. I hate the way it looks. To think this runs on the Unreal Engine. That engine really is great but these devs are not doing it justice. I hope this game has a beta. So people can tell the devs what needs work.

xrich @ Jan 7th 2008 9:23PM

why did they show the game in this crappy condition? i know its still in development but, c'mon, it looks like crap. i've seen better graphics in xbox1 shooters. my interest has gone from curious to no way...

Overgauss @ Jan 8th 2008 12:00AM

I was hoping this would be our warhawk-type mmo but the environments look too scripted and rail-like.

I must needs see video of PVP action then we can talk.