Champions Online preview MMO

Champions Online preview

Champions Online brings superheroes back to the PC, with the new MMO that allows you to thoroughly customise your hero, and your nemesis. Champions Online has a suitably graphic art style, and we've been playing the beta and are pretty pleased. For the full information on Champions Online, read our playtest preview in this issue of MMOZine, which also has an exclusive interview with developer Bill Roper.
Click here to read our Champions Online preview now! Champions Online preview Cryptic Studios' Bill Roper may have been at the company for less than a year, but his association with the world of Champions goes back a lot further. As the Executive Producer and Design Director – and ordained minister and folk singer! – explained during a whistle-stop visit to London: "Champions Online is based on a paper and pencil RPG that was actually released in 1981. I was 16 years old at the time and actually had a first edition copy and played it so have some old-school bragging rights, having been around the Champions universe for a long time." In fact, the story goes that Roper's efforts to get involved in the beta test led to him being offered a job at Cryptic, the MMO world's superhero specialists. Champions Online continues the theme established by City Of Heroes/Villains, and according to Roper: "One of the biggest things that we get from the superhero genre is the fact that players want to be iconic; they want to have a specific look and they want to be someone in the world that other players see and recognise. Click here to continue reading our Champions Online preview now!