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00:11The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game
00:15Set in the real world where every myth, every legend, every fairy tale, every conspiracy theory
00:20Everything is true
00:25No designer could ask for more to draw upon
00:28The missions, the locations, the monsters
00:30This world, our world, is the greatest resource of all
00:38Everything is true
00:39Everything
00:40There were 11 days missing
00:42You know, there's a city on the moon
00:44The earth is hollow
00:45And Pandora's box is opening up
00:47There is a monster under your bed
00:50No designer
01:10With the story in the Secret World, we want to give meaning and context to every player action
01:14From crafting, to monster slaying, to missions, to ranking up a new secret society
01:21The story is about giving a context and a meaning to everything
01:25We're trying to engage players on an intellectual level
01:28We're asking people to not just click the mouse over and over again
01:31We're asking them to think about what they do, to solve puzzles
01:34Come on
01:35Dead guys followed by very much alive guys in black suits and black vans
01:39Connect the dots
01:41The most exciting thing about the story in the Secret World is how it's told
01:44It's not just through cinematics or dialogue
01:47It's embedded into the world
01:48You have to look for it, you have to search for it
01:50The story is exploration, the story is discovery
01:56Jeez, you never saw anything like this in the cop shows
02:00Well, maybe on cable, not the network ones
02:03Every single character in the Secret World is fully voiced and motion captured
02:07And this is important for us because that's how we can make them individuals
02:11And it's extremely important for us that the characters feel like more than mission partners
02:17She's a real beaut, ain't she?
02:20All dressed up with nowhere to go
02:21And she's getting restless
02:23Hush now, baby girl
02:25Hush now
02:27We'll get you sorted, I promise
02:28In the Secret World we have multiple mission types
02:32Sabotage missions
02:33Which are about stealth gameplay
02:35Infiltrating enemy fortresses
02:37Destroying things
02:38But doing it in sneaky ways
02:40Action missions
02:41Which are about going gung-ho
02:43Running in, guns blazing, killing things, destroying things, blowing shit up
02:46Investigation missions
02:48Where we ask players to engage with the world beyond the secret world
02:52We ask them to look for clues within the game world
02:55But also to go outside of the game world and search for things online
02:59Story missions
03:00Story missions are all about the player and their secret society
03:04It's about finding out what has gone wrong in the world
03:06It's about understanding why the world is the way that it is
03:09I'm having another vision
03:10They come and go like headaches
03:12I can't really control them
03:15Quick, before it passes
03:20So in the Secret World we have three secret societies
03:23The Dragon, the Templars and the Illuminati
03:25And all of these guys are battling for control over ancient and legendary relics
03:29Scattered all over the world
03:31They engage in something called the Secret War
03:33And players are recruited to take part in this Secret War
03:36And also to battle the Rising Darkness
03:38I'm very pleased you can follow directions on the back of a card
03:41It is the basis for us getting along famously
03:44Of course, with an establishment like this
03:47We're practically in the yellow pages under Crusaders
03:50The role of the secret societies in the secret world
03:53Is to be the colossal forces
03:56Which push and pull against the player
04:00The Illuminati
04:01I'm with the Illuminati
04:03I don't have a badge or anything like that
04:05I'm what you might call a hobbyist member
04:08The most important story in the secret world is your story
04:12And your story begins with joining a secret society
04:15Learning all about their philosophies
04:17And advancing through the ranks of the secret society
04:19And learning more about their conspiracies
04:21About these ancient secrets
04:22Here's the dangers that have been protected for thousands of years
04:27No!
