Well, while the gameplay itself still looks desperately boring (I was in the beta and recent videos made it look no better) at least they’re doing some interesting things with the story line. Seems some mysterious assassin nailed Morpheus for good. More info in this interview on (ugh) MTV. (via Kotaku)

If you read the interview it’s kind of sad that their ongoing story takes player choice into account very little. Morpheus planted bunch of bombs and all the faction members were then tasked with defusing them. Tough luck if any of them supported Morpheus and didn’t want to defuse anything. Call me when groups of players can actually have a tangible influence on a MMO. There are numerous stories of players deciding they didn’t want an MMO story to head where the developers were forcing it, it’s a shame they got smacked down each time. So much for choice and influencing the story.