The Agency trailer introduces all the major players

by Nick Doerr { May 16th 2008 at 9:30AM }

We haven't had a chance to really see The Agency in motion, especially with a typical espionage/spy musical score in the background. This world premiere from X-Play shows off the main characters in the game from both the U.N.I.T.E. and ParaGON factions. There's a short clip of actual gameplay footage and it looks a bit like Uncharted went to the mall to buy some tuxedos and have a shootout against enemies other than pirates. Still, the game will have to show us more before we can truly judge its worth, but this is a good start for the PS3's first real MMO.

Tags: soe, sony-online-entertainment, the-agency

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

leiwei @ May 16th 2008 10:01AM

video looks great but gameplay doesn't seem to match the swiftness of the characters bouncing around in the vid. Love the boobs though. ;-)

Paragon for sure, but it seems more like Unite has the cool spy-like characters.

Brodie-san @ May 16th 2008 10:19AM

Anyone else think Cassie looks a lot like Hana from Fear Effect?

Now THERE is a game that I would love to see on the PS3.

koehler83 @ May 16th 2008 10:28AM

I don't know what SOE thinks their pulling with this, but it's certainly not pulling me in..

I've tried and tried to understand just what the hell this is, but it just keeps going right over my head. It barely looks like this game would be any good as a single player. Where the hell does the multiplayer come in, let alone the massively multiplayer....?

I'm so uninterested in this that its infuriating that Sony had the balls to claim MMOs would be some kind of selling point to the system.

Watcher @ May 16th 2008 10:54AM

"All major players" Does that mean we won't be able to customize the design of our characters? It wouldn't feel much like a MMO if I had to pick the look and feel of my character from a staple selection. Everyone would end up looking exactly the same way in no time flat. I'm hoping this was meant to address classes, not character design.

Nerdkiller @ May 16th 2008 11:28AM

My worry is though, is that seeing that this is an MMO, it might have a pay to play subscription service.

Oh, and when the game is released, expect most of the players who control the skimpy female characters to be fat, sweaty men. (no offence to anyone who plays as a woman in other MMO's).

wisconsinista @ May 16th 2008 1:24PM

I've seen most of this in other trailers. The only new bit was the individual characters standing there with their name behind them. I was pumped for the game, but this illustrates how little they've done since the winter. This will become a Killzone2/Home -hyped and delayed until I no longer care.

outlawgeneration @ May 16th 2008 2:04PM

lol... Wilhelm scream...

Cleric @ May 16th 2008 2:14PM

I think this looks just my cup of tea... Looking frorward to getting a daily fix!!
Think it might help my latent want to be 'James Bond' thing...

Lavane @ May 16th 2008 7:41PM

They need to release more info about what the heck this game actually is.

I mean the only thing I know about this game is that you play as a spy of some sorts and so do all the other players, which sort of takes the cool out of being a spy, does it not? I mean how cool would James Bond have been if there were no civilians - just other agents everywhere?

This could be great, and I'm still curious! but without more info it's just another mediocre shooter.