RiftAnyone else heard of this? I didn't see a topic about it using the search function, but I recently read about it in a Game Informer article (from a magazine my friend let me read) regarding the "future of dynamic content MMOs." Rift and Guild Wars 2 featured in it.
It's an MMORPG currently in closed beta that promises things changing as far as each experience being unique during levelling, exploration, etc. If Rifts from the elemental planes aren't closed, towns can be overtaken until players fight back, and they can grow in power to a point where it'll take large groups of people to fight back. Rift also seems to have a base class-secondary system, where you choose one of the four mains (Cleric, Mage, Rogue, Warrior) and then go from there (Nightblade, Assassin, Blade Dancer, and Ranger for Rogues, for example, with more classes 'coming soon'). It looks like they've got a form of either "dual speccing" or multiclassing; once you level you can choose from another one of the secondary professions. I don't know how any of this really works though.
There are two factions (represented, in a cliched way, by Red and Blue), the Defiant and the Guardians. I don't see much of a difference between the two, other than the starting classes you can choose (Defiant can easily acquire Nightblade, for example, while they wouldn't be able to get Assassin until you progress later in the game, and vice versa) and the race you start as (with three per faction, each with different racial abilities).