Champions Online

If you can think it you can make it. From trench coat wearing eagles to bikini wearing hammer fisters, it can all be done in Champions online. As I sit here I contemplate my next creation. So as you can guess I was very impressed by the scope of the character creation in this game. I have spent hours creating random characters and I can still be surprised by finding a new tab or slider and seeing how it can change my characters appearance. As for the game itself I have only been to the desert and Canada areas outside of the starter zone. Superhero game?? Canada?? Really?? I find that the leveling process is surprisingly fast. I was able to create 3 level 10 super heroes in one night. The level cap to this game is 40 so I am thinking that if i can finally stick to one character a majority of my time leveling will be that dreaded 35 to 40.

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Game play is a lot of fun in this game due to the fact that there is really no downtime. Having abilities that build your "lets call it mana" really keeps the pace of the game high and entertaining. Having played the starter area I really enjoyed the group quests which are very similar to Warhammer online's group quests. Abilities wise I am just starting to figure out the way that the stats in the game work. Instead of the usual agility or stamina you would find in games like WOW you are thrown similar stats such as constitution, dexterity and ego. The game really struggles at explaining these stats to you so for a while my character was using all the wrong stats for his abilities. Overall now I am more than a few hours in and I am really enjoying it. I can definitely see the comparison to City of Heroes which I also packed a bunch of hours into back in the day before realizing I was always doing the same thing over and over again. I am willing to give Champions Online the two months of play before the fall games extravaganza begins and hopefully they will be able to fix some of the bugs that can make this super hero game into a fantastic hero game.

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