Tera

With its Unreal-engine powered graphics and focus on true action combat over the stilted dice rolls, Tera isn’t necessarily a typical MMO. At E3, the folks at developer En Masse unveiled another new feature that may further separate it from its competition: politics. On top of its relatively streamlined approach to monster bashing (we very quickly found that Tera will probably play much better with using its controller support than a mouse and keyboard setup), Tera will also be introducing a political system to its proceedings based not only on chats, guilds and forum presence, but also on real influence from other players in the game world... » Read Full Tera preview

It's tough finding a good-looking MMORPG these days. Most developers cut back on the visuals to ensure that their game can run on a variety of systems without bogging down the servers, and too often the result is that they look like something out of 2006. By contrast, Tera is one fine looking game, and an intriguing action MMO to boot... » Read Full Tera preview