Champions Online
Champions Online is a video game that consists of 5 releases-
Champions Online: The Nemesis Encounter
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Quick Look: Champions Online
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Champions Save The World, Online
Champions Online is a superhero action-MMORPG for PC. It was developed by Cryptic Studios, the makers of City of Heroes.
Overview
Champions is a subscription based MMORPG, where the player explores a highly stylized comic book inspired super-hero themed world. Champions Online is based on the pen and paper game of the same name. Champions Online introduces new ways of customization in the character creator and beyond. Along with a robust costume creator, the player can choose the attitude of the hero through stances and moods.
Backflips!
Doctor Destroyer
At level 25, players can custom design their own nemesis in the same fashion as their own hero (creating an entirely new character with their own customizations to their costumes, powers as well as have their own unique back story. Your nemesis will appear throughout your own career, and by finishing the entire storyline you will be able to create other nemeses. Each villian comes with there own henchmen that will ambush the players hero in open world areas. The player has the ability to choose from several variation of henchmen.
Champions Online has a very open way of dealing with classes and archetypes in the game. When creating a character there are sets of themed powers called Frameworks. These powers such as Electricity, Fire, Supernatural, or Munitions provide all have special affects that work in tandem to create unique combat experiences. The player is not stuck with these powers though, and from very early on can pick from any of the other frameworks if they wish. The level of your hero is capped at level 40 currently.
Gameplay
Is that a plane? Is that a bird? Oh, you get the idea.
The game features an energy-building system, which is represented as a blue bar below the player's health. The maximum amount of energy a player may obtain is determined by their Endurance stat, whereas the amount of energy a player starts with in battle is determined by their Recovery stat (this is called Equilibrium). A player gains energy by either using their "Energy Builder" (a power that is chosen in the character creation process) or by various other methods (su ch as leveling up a power to make it return energy in certain circumstances). Energy is then spent on more powerful attacks.
An interesting side effect of having this kind of energy-building system is that, unlike City of Heroes/Villians, the travel powers are not directly dependent on your endurance to be activated or maintained. When a travel power, such as flight, is turned on, powers that are dependent on endurance increase in cost, but are still very much usable. This allows for a character to stay in flight during an entire battle or teleport to safety no matter how much energy they actually have.
Upon leveling up, a player is granted one of five things: A new power (which can be any power in the game, providing that the player has the necessary prerequisite), a travel power (one at level 5 and one at level 35), two "Perk Points" (which can be used to upgrade existing powers or add special abilities to them), a Super Stat (read below), or a Characteristic Focus (essentially stat boosts).
Super Stats are granted twice within a characters career. Each stat within the game grants different advantages, however, the two stats the character designates as Super Stats will henceforth be the only stats to grant a character a base damage bonus (I.E. if a character chooses Strength and Dexterity, then those two stats will be the ones that give a damage boost to any attack, as well as provide the normal bonuses that any character obtains for adding to that stat). Super Stats grant a greater bonus the more the character levels up.
Locations
Stronghold
- Millennium City - DC Comics have Metropolis and Champions Online has Millennium City. The player encounters the city in a state of chaos, rival gangs, invading alien and demonic forces and to top it all off a prison break!
- Canada - Far from a snowy wonderland, heroes have to contend with the undead, an endless army of clones, and an evil organization called VIPER
- Burning Sands Desert - An area packed with rampaging mutants, robots on revolt, a town of ghost cowboys, an even more dangerous prison break, and a giant creature named Grond that leaps around the whole zone wreaking havoc.
- Monster Island - The island of the terrible Dr. Moreau. As his name may suggest, he has created an army of superpowered animal human hybrids. A small group of them have refused his life of violence and brutality, and heroes are part of an aid mission to stop Dr. Moreau and his new partners in crime.
- Lemuria - An underwater world that has come under attack by a mysterious force!
Powers
Although Champions Online does not work on a rigid class based system the powers the player can choose from are divided into 22 power sets. These power sets are as follows: - Might
- Electricity
- Fire
- Force
- Ice
- Archery
- Gadgeteering
- Mutations
- Power Armour
- Dual Blades
- Fighting Claws
- Single Blades
- Martial Arts
- Telekinesis
- Telepathy
- Darkness
- Sorcery (Arcane, Ebon, Primal or Radiant)
- Supernatural
- Celestial (added as part of the Halloween'09 "Blood Moon" content Update)
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| Game Name | Champions Online |
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Sept. 1, 2009
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| Original US Release | Q2 2009 know the real date? |
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OFLC: PG
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ESRB: T
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PEGI: 12+
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