It would seem that another superhero MMORPG - not the first nor the last. It would seem that the game is made by the secondary and generally questionable in terms of mass market licenses. It seemed, Champions can hardly anything surprising. It turned out, he can. And in the first place ... deep.
This has not been anywhere, and in other games, probably would have looked out of place. Here among the skyscrapers running and flying Eldar of Warhammer 40,000, Scorpio and another half a roster Mortal Kombat, Neo, Rorschach, Ghost Rider, Catwoman, Blade, Gollum (sic!), and even some popular anime characters. You would think that in this madhouse of someone missing? Well, then create it! Champions Online reveals just crazy opportunity to give the characters personality. If the City of Heroes for your avatar can be done similar to the famous superheroes, the Champions Online came close to that to allow them to create twins. Generally, "old-timers» Champions like chide beginners, because almost every fifth invented their hero is like the Iron Man. The reason is not that all make it easier. They belong to it - people's love.
 | |  | Ward the author of these lines - a cross between Iron Man and kibernindzya of Metal Gear Solid. With the abilities of the first, but armed with a laser sword as the main tool in the fight against evil. Do not fall in love with his character it is impossible - because it looks exactly as it should look like a superhero dream | | Destruction of criminals with a lamppost looks incredibly impressive, but the dry figures forced to abandon this method of fighting - the usual ability to inflict significantly more damage |
In this image of a character or non-binding - it might be a cyborg with a rocket launcher on his shoulder and fly on the ice, but only to fight with his fists. Worn items will not affect the appearance, they only give bonuses to performance. Speaking of characteristics. ... They also are adjustable. You choose your hero focus on two of the eight parameters - and now they will be responsible for the damage your character damage. For example, selecting as a focus for his ward superlovkost you with its growth will not only get a higher chance of critical hit, but also increase to attack power.
Same thing with the abilities. Divided into six categories in 1922 a branch of skills - from manipulating the elements and the divine forces to high-tech gadgets, supernatural mental abilities, and martial arts. You do not need to be restricted to one type of force, or even one area in which you want to specialize - choose any skill, even from opposite schools - for example, a couple of spells from an arsenal of black magic and a prayer to the divine healing.Appearance, or rather the color of the superpowers also configurable - suddenly you to complete the image did not have enough black protective aura or flight in the poisonous, acid-green flames?
If you get tired of the current image, or superpowers, or something else, you can always for a very reasonable fee to part with the old kit and get a new one, so that got me super powers and looks at least every week.
 | |  | Folk fun at Champions Online: Make a copy of a famous character and put a screenshot on the forum. Meet Major Jackson Briggs from Mortal Kombat | | Set of cells in the lower right corner - it's equipped items and inventory. Than the weight wrong superheroes? As usual - an artificial muscle, a charm papers and alien artifacts |
Authors Champions Online tried to create a world living under the laws of the comic book, and in general they have succeeded. Here, your character - really a superhero. Famous, popular and popularly beloved, despite the third level in the screen of statistics. Passers-by, ordinary residents of Millennium City, klyanchat autographs and swear that fanateyut it from you, thanks for saving the world every day, asking for help and they behave as ordinary townsfolk of comics. No offensive assignments, like "kill ten rats in the basement," in Champions Online you will not get. Your Quests - is "to stop the alien invasion" (incidentally, the first task), or, at worst, get ten people from the dam in a burning house. " Storyboard fights too right now on the cover of "The Adventures of Superman: the hero can pick up almost any object, whether it's rock, shop or car and toss it into the enemy. Formally, the battle comes to the same point-and-click, but it is reminiscent of the Age of Conan - at least, to press the buttons here have skills no less. Moreover, most long-range attacks, a hero in a position to perform the move, so that in battle there is a sense constantly moving, especially if the opponent prefers melee.
The main advantage of the game - customization, so is it any wonder that the developers did not miss an opportunity to once again demonstrate this? Got himself a hero? Ok, the level of such things at the thirtieth offers him a personal arhivraga! Think of the appearance and name, give it super powers, and define in one of three categories negodyayskih: evil genius, a maniac or a savage. Nemesis (it was called so they made themselves antagonists) will build the countless intrigues, send his henchmen and do all sorts of mischief, which you will be prevented by performing special quests and going through dungeons. Well, after the arch-enemy will be behind bars, you will be prompted to invent the next - in fact for such a hero of one of the enemy, even "super" enough.
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Perky - is a way of accounting for your achievements, which motivates the same time to new achievements. Killed hundreds of agents VIPER? Get a perk. Caused 10,000 of damage to players in the arena? Here is another one. Themselves perks do not give bonuses, but they can be used as "currency", buying equipment from NPC.However, thus obtained ammunition is not much better than produced by conventional methods.
 | |  | I do not advise taking superbeg as travel-force - the terrain is mostly rugged. Flight much more comfortable! | | Arena, as well as other PvP-modes in Champions Online, have little practical value and exist mainly for entertainment. However, for participating in PvP you can get new perks |
Superheroes in modern online When you finally get comfortable in this world, you realize that you are surrounded by familiar to MMORPG environment - the game is filled with the usual legwork on quests, encounters with traders so clashes with mobs. Because the tasks are carried out fairly quickly (Champions Online in general can not be called a complicated game), even in the later stages do not have the feeling that topcheshsya on the spot. Although generally a rush to pump no particular reason - the diversity of content available initially in what you are waiting for the same villains, only with higher rates. Even the PvP in Champions Online - an optional thing which requires nothing and to nothing obliges. Do you want to - go to the arena, do not want to - go about their business further.
Although the game is instanced, most of the time players spend in the open, common to all characters locations. These locations are huge, so even at the fifth level you will get a so-called "force displacement» (travel-power) - learn to fly, super-fast run or make giant leaps. The ability of many to choose from there what. Well, that travel-force set up and improved, I think, as you should have guessed.
 | |  | One of the coolest travel-force - swinging, it is also "bungee", aka "a la Spider-Man" | | On one of my missions Iron Kibernindzya fought shoulder to shoulder with a copy of Dante from Devil May Cry 2. In my opinion, that's fine |
Heroism on schedule Open the mission (open missions), the idea and method of implementation of which moved from the public quests in Warhammer Online, designed to diversify the player experience by offering them something in addition to instances and group raids and crafting. All the characters that are close to the "epicenter of the event, receive a general assignment, which jointly seek to fulfill. For example, you pass near the prison, and then bam! - Siren: the prisoners trying to escape! The task of all bystanders heroes - to catch fifty prisoners, and then deal with the bosses. A few minutes after the open of the mission timer is reset and the carousel zavertitsya back - howl sirens again flee the prisoners, and other characters that have not yet tried an adventure, too, can come and take part in it.
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Before you rush into battle, read the Guides! In Champions Online bunch of non-obvious nuances - from inventory, abilities, statistics, manufacturing items, etc. Game in general can hardly be called friendly to the beginner - the first time, it is shocking the number of little things that work "a little bit, but not so much", as in other online games.
Handbook in Russian is on the forums site Goha.ru in the section on Champions Online. There you can meet a few Russian-speaking players. Nothing can be done - it seems that fans of comics in the Western style we have less than, say, animeshnikov.
But overcomes evil Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Champions Online has several weaknesses, even if we compare it with the City of Heroes. Flexible configuration capabilities could not be reflected on the balance sheet - some combination of skills are too strong, while others - obviously losing. Balance of power between the branches calibrated well, we can not say that a man pumped abilities associated with archery, get an advantage over a player who chose a branch of the ice. But in Champions Online is not needed to balance the branches, and the combination of skills with each other - because the archer can get himself another and a shotgun, telekinesis and aura healings - and go into the ring to stack piles of other superheroes. But this balancing - it's not a single day or even months.
While the quests and missions in the game much more than you need to maximize the fortieth level, lack of content still there. In addition, mediocre by today's standards of graphics in the style cel-shading would look awful in just a couple of years - that's why MMO games, as the product durable, usually made with a certain "margin of beauty", trying to get ahead of its time. Developers from Cryptic Studios have ignored this rule are satisfied that the thing now looks better than City of Heroes. But there are even more serious problem. In Shampions Online is only one server, and it is unlikely in the near future will open a second meaning - the specificity of play dooms it to a niche. People who do not work wow-impulse, like "Wow, my hero is able to teleport to a tee as Nightcrawler from X-Men!», Will never be able to assess Shampions Online appreciated. And these people - the majority.
We thank Alexei Pavlov for his help in preparing the article.
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Cryptic Studios - mother, father and nurse of all the superhero MMORPG. In 2003, under the patronage of NCsoft, the company is developing City of Heroes. Soon, Marvel Comics files suit - in CoH, you can create characters like the hero of her comics! Proceedings in the court leads to an unexpected result - Marvel refuses to claims and sign up with Cryptic contract to develop Marvel Universe Online. At the same time making a new game and keep the same old themes Cryptic Studios is not a virtue, so the end of 2007 Cryptic sold the rights to City of Heroes its publisher, NCsoft, switched to the development of future projects.
However, in 2008, Microsoft Game Studios, publisher of Marvel Universe Online, announced the termination of the project because of its lack of competitiveness. Guide Cryptic Studios hastily seeking another superhero license, and finds her at the Hero Games - they publish a desktop role-playing game Champions, unpopular among fans of comic books. Since Marvel Universe Online has become Champions Online, but setting the exterior character and especially the individual elements of a wardrobe reminiscent of the past project.
However, the story has not ended. Ironically, the current child of Cryptic Studios is calculated on the same target audience as the City of Heroes, their first game, so have to compete mainly just with her. The matter is compounded by the fact that fans of superhero MMO bit and most of them are already playing in City of Heroes. Understand it and Cryptic Studios. Six months ago, CoH There are funny people. Sending private messages, they began to invite players to participate in closed beta testing of Champions Online. Misdirected Cossacks in the first place searched for heads of clans and other large communities, offering them a group invitation to the closed beta. Messy? " Unfair? Manager Marketing & Communications Cryptic Sulich Ivan (Ivan Sulic) does not think so - he is confident that, calling people in the beta Champions Online, the studio staff did not violate the law and did not commit immoral. But, just in case, promised that the more they do so will not.
It is terrible to imagine what shocks await the already vzbalamuchennoe swamp superhero MMORPG, when will DC Universe Online about Superman, Batman and Justice League.
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