Bioware has blown the lid off of coverage of Star Wars: The Old Republic and MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh takes a look at the Imperial Agent and has taken some great in-game screenshots to show the class off. Read on and then weigh in with your thoughts in the comments.

Ah Bioware, where would we be without story? That’s the first thing I want to say. The opening movie of Star Wars: The Old Republic pretty much kicked ass. I have had the opportunity over the past couple years, to play quite a bit of the starting story of both Imperial and Empire at various media events and each time, I’ve not wanted to stop. I love the story aspect of MMOs (those which have it) and will putz around to smell the roses or in this case, kill a sniveling excuse for a human or two. I decided for my time with the press beta on SWTOR to play the Imperial Agent because that was a faction/class combination I had not played before. I was an assassin, an operative – the secret weapon of the Empire! Uhh… that might be pushing it. I was a total noob at how this class worked. But it would prove to be fun.

Read more of Carolyn Koh's Star Wars: The Old Republic - Imperial Agent Preview.

Trooper first, Agent next. Thanks for the write-up; now I'm sure the Agent will be my first alt.

Wow, those spoilers were something, I just took the fool out immediately for delaying my progress. The Agent story is great fun,  now to just get back to playing the game next weekend :)

Agent was my final alt... I wish I'd mained him. DEFINITELY going to be maining him on release.

The IA has without a single doubt the best storyline in the entire game. Even if you dont like to play ranged DPS toons aka paper cannons you should give the IA a try based on the storyline alone. That is how good the storyline is for this class.

Wot, a whole article and no Kaliyo?!

I am disappointed, she's a real love or hate companion, and I adored her. Stopped playing my IA at level 25 last build to keep it for launch (I keep rolling IAs and making myself stop playing them), as aSpartan said above, the storyline completely rocks.

But it's also worth mentioning that you can muck about in your skill trees and be less squishy up close as an operative, with a lot of rogue-like abilities: stealth, grenade, stabbity, shoot, stabbity moar - tons of fun!

If I play the game...this class would be my main character. I played till level 11 and stopped. The class and I just click.

(I  say if..... because 24/7 persistent faction conflict is why I would play...and I haven't gotten enough information on that subject yet)

Was a little disappointed with this write up probably the weakest of the class previews, guessing the author was desperately trying to avoid spoilers and went the other way making it quite an ambigous preview.

I didn't get flagged for beta until Monday.  It was a huge download. The article was due Thursday. I have a day job where I usually work  8 - 6. It was a completely new build and new class for me, and servers went down Thursday morning. Soo... partly trying to avoid spoilers, partly - I just did not have much time with the game before I had to write it.

Originally posted by Eranu

Was a little disappointed with this write up probably the weakest of the class previews, guessing the author was desperately trying to avoid spoilers and went the other way making it quite an ambigous preview.

 

The imperial agent storyline was pretty good. Definitely, the class is looking like my first alt.