So I was supposed to hold off on revealing this until tomorrow, but thanks to the folks over at Cryptic Studios I'm able to provide you with this tasty morsel of superheroic news. Today, 2k Games announced their role as the international publisher for Cryptic's upcoming superhero MMO for the Xbox 360 and PC, Champions Online.
Champions Online marks the first MMO published by 2k Games, and while naturally the respective executives are crowing over how happy they are to be working together, it's not simply lip service. Champions Online's Xbox 360 release stands to help expand MMO gameplay to an audience that either can't or won't play on a PC and aren't that into Final Fantasy XI. Unfortunately we'll have to wait until Spring 2009 to see whether Champions Online can leap the wide gap between PC and console players, or if the Xbox 360 proves to be its kryptonite.
[Via a very confused CVG]
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4:44 PM on 07.10.2008
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As for me making fun of it like that, ahh.. I can. I played CoH for about a year in til WoW was released.. then I was sucked away like a moth to the flame.
Reasons why I'm skeptical:
1: Jack 'Statesman' Emerett(Sp?) is the designer... who mentioned in the interview that he wants to NOT make the same mistakes he made in CoH/CoV... but has the same ideas in mind.
2: Its a superhero based MMO - With the possiblity of a expansion, no doubt, so people can play villains too.
3: Its City of Heroes, but with the option of making you OWN super powers. :P
I mean.. fer crying out loud. How is it NOT CoH, thats what I wanna know aside from the graphics and idea. :)
...Not that I'm not gonna buy it.. I loved CoH/CoV. ;P
I'd play it, but on 360.