See first trailers, screens from Champions Online

Will it be cross platform playable? Cause that would be cool... I have a bud I know will be getting this for PC but I'd prefer getting it for the 360...

I like the ced-shading. It looks pretty okay. I'll be interested in getting more details as they come out.

The logo reminds me of eternal champions.

I doubt they want that comparison.

so... generic...

There's something about MMO games on consoles that just doesn't sit well with me. In current popular MMO games, one of the largest draws is that you have thousands of players to interact with, and most of the time, you've got to be able to communicate with them via text entered with your keyboard. Voice chat takes up too much bandwidth to be used in a large world with hundreds, or even thousands of players... and it can serve to destroy the suspension of disbelief. So how do you play a game like this without a keyboard?

I hope they make it more interesting than City of Heroes. I liked CoH a lot at first but it became incredibly boring very quickly.

Looks nearly identical to City of Heroes to me, aside from the more comic look and feel, which is done very well in my opinion. I don't know, I think it could be a nice diversion from other MMO games that all have such a similar feel and I did like City of Heroes at one point.

I'll keep an eye open, especially for the 360.

What the... I already played this! It was called City of Heroes/Villains.

Well it does look exactly the same, which means I'll play it for a while.

If I were to play that game, I'd be a Power Ranger.

Man. This game looks pretty amazing.

I'm definitely excited for it. I always wanted to play CoH but don't have a gaming worthy computer. The main reasons I prefer consoles is you never have to worry about having the gear to play a game. If it's for your system you can play it. So Champions Online on 360 is right up my alley.

Even though it is similar to CoH it'll at least play differently with its more action oriented battle system.

I think the key thing to remember about this game is the ways it will differ from CoH/CoV. The main website for the game even slams CoH in an indirect way for being boring.

In CoH, battle is like most other MMO's where you click and wait for your hits to happen. This game promises to be more Exteel-esque; that is to say you will have to actually move around, click to attack, no more waiting for cool down timers to attack, and so on.

Time will tell if it makes the difference. My self, I'm excited about it as I love the way Exteel (and DDO, for that matter) handles combat, however it's definitely not the only thing they need to improve from CoH.

CoH's big deficit in my opinion is the repetitiveness of it's environments. City blocks all look the same, there are only like 3 different cave style dungeons and so on. The character creation tools are superb though. WoW has the opposite problem: absolutely stunning art direction for the environments, lots and lots of variety, but a paucity of options for the look of your character's skin and build. Brawny mages just don't feel right!

Both games suffer from the supers outnumbering the civilians 10-1, although imagine this is more a computing power issue.

CoV addresses this to some extent as far as I can tell, though I have only visited a few of the Rogue Isles so far...

Tabletop is a term you use to refer to a boardgame. Champions is a pen and paper rpg. I hate to be this big of a nerd, but there is a difference.

Everyone who is unsure of the reason for this game, see my comments above about the Champions RPG system, and check out this wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_%28role-playing_game%29#Description

This game is more than 20 years old. The rules system is EXTREMELY well-tested and the character creation system is about as customizable as you can imagine. You can craft literally any sort of comics character you want, I played this game for about 4-5 years weekly in middle school and high school and I never saw someone come up with a character concept or power that could not be replicated in the rules system.

IF (and that's a big if) they have managed to take that level of customizability and balance, and bring it to a MMO... this will be an amazing game.

Seriously, though it's not very well known outside of pen and paper RPG circles, this is a masterpiece game system and Cryptic made a very good decision trying to use it as the basis for their new game. We shall see if they did it justice.

Um... I've been hyped!

What is this tingling feeling? Am I excited over an MMO?! BUSHWA! Anyhow it has pricked my curiosity but as stated before, I'll wait to get more details to see if its a must-buy, and if they do implement the much revered Champions character creator system PERFECTLY...then they just got a buy.

wait, so is this a (console)multiplatform game, or is this a 360 (console) exclusive? Because GI only has it listed for the Pc and the 360.

The official Champions site also only says 360 and PC, NOT PS3?