Grab your spandex, prepare your costume and launch into explosive battles in Champions Online. Champions Online is currently the dominant force in the superhero MMORPG Game genre, dwarfing competition from the likes of DC Universe Online and Super Hero Squad Online. Champions Online offers players a level of depth with character customization that they won’t experience in any other online title, combined with explosive combat scenarios, in-depth PvE options and large-scale PvP events, making Champions Online the first stop for any spandex wearing wannabe hero.
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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.
Considering the genre's explosive popularity, why aren't superhero MMOs hugely successful? Shannon gets to the bottom of the matter.
Why aren't there more super hero games? You would think it would be a no brainer with all the material right there for the picking.
And yet we have really only had less than a handful become popular.
