The Secret World
The Secret World is a massively-multiplayer online world with a unique modern-day setting and unparalleled storytelling. Imagine if every myth, conspiracy theory and urban legend was true--a world where you…
The Secret World is an adventure developed by Funcom, released 3 July 2012 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.
What The Secret World is
The Secret World is an adventure game developed by Funcom and released in 2012. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on DreamWorld.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game with a dark urban fantasy theme, in which players play characters defending the world from occult threats.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
The Secret World holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.6 GHZ Intel Core 2 DUO or equivalent AMD CPU, At least 2GB RAM for Windows XP / 3GB Ram for Windows Vista and Windows 7 and nVidia 8800 series 512 VRAM or better/Radeon HD3850 512MB or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Secret World launched on 3 July 2012, within three weeks of Persona 4 Golden, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky and Pokémon Black Version 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 4 Golden, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky, Pokémon Black Version 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Secret World yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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