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Champions Online

Oh, superhero MMOs, how I adore you all. I spent a ton of hours playing City of Heroes and I only really stopped because I got tired of what was offered gameplay-wise. Now, with Champions Online, Cryptic is promising a lot more stuff -- aside from pummeling villains -- to keep players busy. You'll see a crafting system, a PvP system and even something called the Omega System for solo players that Cryptic has only hinted and teased us about.

So lets make a check list. Designing my own superheroes? Check. Designing their powers? Check. Designing their very own Arch-Nemesis? Whoa, check. This time around, Cryptic is aiming to blow their old character creation out of the sky and early examples seem to prove that they're on the path to doing that. We're talking taking any item on your character, changing its color and even the type of material it's made out from. This isn't even getting into custom powers or the Nemesis system yet.

Beyond the customization insanity, we're looking at an entire universe for Cryptic to pull ideas from. No more will we be reigned into a single city or even a single planet. The change makes a lot of sense too, considering comicbooks venture into space and other dimensions more frequently than Wolverine has had his own merchandise.

29/08/08