Right, science time. Imagine the characters of Left 4 Dead within an MMO: normal, heavily-armed people in extraordinary circumstances, surrounded by NPCs with intelligently scripted and well-acted voices and whose pretty ladies don't have up-front areas that come with a jiggle function.
Your next step is to remove the sprint abilities of the zombies and tie them into the Norse myth of undead mariners that was covered in Sylvester McCoy-era Doctor Who adventure The Curse of Fenric. Next: mix in two tablespoonfuls of Alan Wake, alongside a pinch of John Carpenter's The Fog. What you've just laboriously produced in your mind's eye is (with some help from H.P. Lovecraft) Kingsmouth: one of the early locations in The Secret World – a game that's fast becoming one of the more fascinating prospects around in modern MMOs.
While the MMORPG market isn't as saturated as it used to be, it still houses far too many games to list. You could spend days looking for a game worth playing, so here are a few MMORPGs you can play right now.
Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil has begun work on a Secret World TV series set in the MMO's conspiracy-laden supernatural universe.
The TSW Legacy Transfer system will let veteran players of TSW shuffle their membership status and other in-game items over to Secret World Legends.
