On a whim I purchased Global Agenda because it sounded like something I might like. It goes like this: 3rd person shooter + mmo = win? After playing it the last couple of nights I think it has just a ton of potential.
The first thing that struck me is that the game has a ton of upgrades and modifiers for your character. Each of the three classes also has 3 distinct skill trees so it seems like there will be a large variety of play styles that can be effective. I spec’d as a turret building engineer for example but there were plenty of droid and balance spec guys running around wrecking shit too.
One thing I noticed is that the game takes the best elements of other big games such as TF2, WoW, with a little splash of tribes thrown in for good measure. Another aspect that was interesting was that I even though I died a lot I never seemed to go down in one hit. Hopefully this will serve to make the game less of a twitchy shooter and emphasize tactics more. It’s been a while since I played a game with durable characters, it feels pretty good here.
Global Agenda’s killer feature though seems to be the PvE, which I didn’t even know it had before playing. Turns out it’s a ton of fun to take down bosses with a team. I had a complete blast playing my role and laying down turrets, walls, and healing stations while shooting the hell out of some robots. One thing that also has me horribly curious is a mode called “double agent” where you do PvE with a 6 man team in which 2 of the players are secretly working for the enemy. I didn’t get a chance to try it but that sounds nuts.
I’m also a fan of the pricing model, with the base game you can play all of the competitive and cooperative stuff free forever, and then there is an optional subscription that enables you to play in a persistent, large scale territory battle mode. Reminds me a bit of PlantSide from the sounds of it. I’m just glad that I get the meat of the game for free with my purchase and can opt in for more, this should be the model for more MMOs.
This is all pretty early though since I’ve only played a couple times, but so far I’m all in for the full release next week.
