Chella Ramanan writes:
"With more high fantasty MMOs in the market than you can shake a very big stick at, there's definitely room for a development team to step away from the elves and try something different. When it comes to the super hero thing, nobody does it better than Cryptic Studios, the original creators of 'City of Heroes' and 'Villains. The team is currently in the thick of trying to get 'Champions Online' to a server near us and we caught up with them to find out just how excited we should be."
Cryptic Studios appears to be the latest Embracer-owned company to be impacted by layoffs.
Champions Online is based on the popular pen-and-paper Champions RPG, giving players the power of total customization of their hero experience while they explore a vast universe of richly detailed 3D environments.
The brand-new Witch Archetype brings ranged Support through the use of Curses to harm and spells to heal in Champions Online.
This is going to be a very good game. Cryptic has one Super-Hero MMO under it's belt, I'm very happy they've ditched the Marvel license.
I dont want any more "same old" experiences - I think Cryptic is much better off with Champions Online, which has vastly more opportunity to tell new stories.
It looks great up till now, I wish them luck.