Since its launch, Champions Online has also seen Blood Moon, a Halloween-themed attack of zombies that also introduced a range of angelic healing powers; and Attack of the Misfit Toys, a Christmas affair with evil Teddy Bears. Which sounded great and did add a change of pace to the usual fare, but have both since been removed although will presumably be resurrected at the appropriate times of Despite the novelty, they quickly fell into the same pattern of all-out attack as any other option in the-game.
And it's here that it becomes very plain to see just how limiting the underlying framework that makes up Champions Online really is, and how little Cryptic seem to either be willing or able to change that. The basic gameplay mechanics, which to many observers were clearly flawed from an MMO perspective, simply don't seem to be going to change any time in the near future. This should also be a worrying warning shot across the bows for everyone eagerly waiting for Star Trek Online and who, having witnessed the beta, have been flooding the forums there with comments along the lines of "Well it's just beta.
There'll be plenty of time to alter things once it goes live. If the history of Champions Online is anything to go by, once the game's basic template is in place, the only things that change are the stats. Sometimes, as the many empty superhero tights that now litter the crime-filled streets of Millennium City will attest to, that simply isn't enough. With none of the major issues addressed and no sign of any majorscale changes on the horizon, Champions Online has settled into a rut and looks like staying there.
The game is distinctly a less heroic a proposition than it promised to be. I feel much safer now that Bea Arthur's Ghost is here! But it's a fine example of the sort of attention to the small details that the team at Cryptic Studios has paid with its second blast at the superhero MMO genre.
Whether it's NPCs praising your prowess as you fly past, mission text and elements filled with humorous references to modern pop culture including nearly the entire cast of Lost , letting players send Twitter messages and updates from within the game, or the ability to choose the colour of your energy bolts and whether they fire from your head, palm or tits, Cryptic have not so much gone to town by filling Champions Online with any idea it can think of, as taken a degree in advanced town planning, built every road themselves, and then shagged every fertile woman they could find to populate the locale.
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