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Sony’s ‘The Agency’ Still One M Short of MMO
MTV Multiplayer — by John Constantine Sony Online Entertainment treated me to a short demo of their massively multiplayer online shooter “The Agency” today and while they’ve certainly made themselves a multiplayer online shooter, it’s unclear just how massive it’s going to be. Two members of the SOE team played through a story mission as members of the Unite spy faction, the classy sleuths to opposition Paragon’s big gun bruisers. The mission took them through a swanky world-powers’ meeting in the Swiss alps, infiltrating a party to retrieve some sensitive intel. Mission groups will be made up of three to four players filling out combat, stealth, and ...

E3 09: The Agency Developer Walkthrough
Rock, Paper, Shotgun — We’ve not been paying much attention to Sony Online Entertainment’s new MMO, spy-shooter The Agency, but since 2009 is clearly Year Of The Spy, we thought we’d best post up some of the E3 09 insight. In this case it’s a GameTrailer’s-acquired developer walkthrough, posted below. The game definitely has a whiff of City Of Heroes to it, in that the public areas are “City Of Spies”, but there’s nevertheless something quite refreshing about seeing someone playing real-time FPS (or TPS) combat in an MMO instance. It’s going to take some successful hands-on time with this to ...