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Based on the promotional video, the people are trapped in the game by being sucked into it? That's a bit more like .hack//Sign than Sword Art Online. Dampens my enthusiasm a little... I had high hopes for .hack//Sign but the game pretense dissipated fairly quickly and it ultimately felt like a weak fantasy anime instead. Since the game wasn't a virtual reality game it also became somewhat confusing to figure out what all of the characters were seeing and experiencing relative to what was being shown on-screen. Sword Art Online maintained the gaming aspects very well by maintaining health bars and the use of menus throughout, even for things like changing clothes; the pretense of virtual reality gamers trapped in their headsets also made quite an impression. It seemed a bit more "realistic."
All the same, between Sword Art Online and Accel World my interest in series based around a premise involving virtual reality hasn't diminished. I'm looking forward to it.
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