When it comes to MMORPGs, I'm that guy. You know the one; you're all having a good time discussing your latest raids and loot pickups from the land of Azeroth and I'm sitting there cursing another World of Warcraft conversation for ruining my Friday night. Yeah, I'm the guy that just loathes every MMO under the sun. Or well, the dimly-lit computer room in the wee hours of the night, anyway.
But I loved City of Heroes. I played it through the beta test and quite a bit after it went live, until my wrist started to hurt. I played it kind of a lot.
With another superhero MMO on the way from Cryptic Studios, I was quite excited, as you can guess. I wondered, is it going to be more City of Heroes, is it a totally different game? With the closed beta over and the release just a few days out, I have some answers for you.
I think this might've been the game Cryptic was trying to make all along. There's a clear lineage from City of Heroes, but Champions Online is bigger and better in just about every way. From character reaction to environments, just about everything has more options, more color, and more life.
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