I first saw the Agency at Sony Gamers Day last year. I had the chance to speak with Producer - Sherry Floyd and saw the first glimpses of the game. Even at it’s first outing, The Agency had me intrigued and yearning for more. Check out the newly released fact sheet on this upcoming Sony MMO
The AgencyTM Fact Sheet
Title: The AgencyTM
Scheduled Release Date: TBD
Genre: Online Action Shooter
Platform: PLAYSTATION®3 and PC
Rating: RP® (May Contain Content inappropriate for Children. Visit www.esrb.org
for rating information)
Developer: Sony Online Entertainment, LLC.
Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment, LLC.
Suggest Retail Price: TBD
The Agency is a fast-paced, action shooter set in an online persistent world—a modern setting of bullets, bomb blasts, and betrayal. Live the life of an elite agent in a world of super spies and rugged mercenaries, who use both the highest technology and the lowest tactics to accomplish their goals. Featuring cooperative and competitive play, The Agency is designed to provide instant action and long-term strategy for all fans of espionage, intrigue, and explosive gameplay on the PLAYSTATION 3 and PC.
• Live the Life of an Elite Agent: The Agency offers many unique missions with varied end-goals requiring combat, stealth, and style. With gameplay ranging from sneaky assassinations to all out assaults, from vehicle challenges to casinos loaded with mini-games, there’s something for every aspiring agent.
• Build Your Own Agency: As players advance through the ranks of their faction, they’ll also begin building their own Agencies. Players will increase their power even further by creating Joint Agencies with others.
• Mercenary or Spy, the Choice is Yours: Collect the right weaponry, gadgets, vehicles, gear, attire and aliases to gain access to numerous locales and influence over the people within them.
• Put Operatives to work: Operatives are collectible non-player characters who provide the goods players desire and the services to keep them alive. Operatives let players concentrate on the mission at hand and increase their own effectiveness. Operatives work 24/7, and they can keep their Agents up-to-date even while offline, through email and text messages.
• Fun Now, No Waiting: At any point, PS3 or PC players can jump right into the action they want. Veterans and new players alike can take on other players in head-to-head combat, the shooting range, or the card tables. And of course, there is a rich story packed with exciting missions, too. Shooter fans and online gamers alike will get to jump into this online persistent world on their platform of choice and frag, or build characters to their heart’s content.
About Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless markets. Known for its blockbuster franchises and hit titles including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, Untold LegendsTM, and PlanetSide®, as well as for developing Star Wars GalaxiesTM, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and the creation of active player communities while introducing new genres on various entertainment platforms. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, with additional development studios in Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, Denver, CO, and Taiwan, SOE has an array of cutting-edge games in development.
SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest and PlanetSide are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. Untold Legends and Legends of Norrath are trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I SOOO CAN’t WAIT FOR THIS ^_^ and I went to there party a fw months back after the convention that was here in seattle.
^_^ YAY
August 21st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
looks like its gonna be sweet but i wonder what the pricing structure will be like. Im not sure if I would buy this or DC universe online cause that looks amazing too.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Ohhh sounds cool!
August 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I thought when I first saw “Operatives” that someone had finally come up with my idea for a massively multiplayer game element- Why doesn’t one of these games have a class that serves as the quest providers?
A player needs to craft something, but needs hundreds or thousands of units of different materials, and therefore can assign “fetch me X units” quests to other players. I’ve always wanted to see that in a game.
Still, cool that the NPCs keep you up-to-date even offline. Neat touch!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I so want this game. The trailer is a trip and I loved it.
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 am
seems interesting but I’m MMO’d out, I hope it’s not quite an MMO (or at least is something you can pick up and play w/o being the time sink of most MMOs)