Champions recruits beta testers from COH Comments by Oli Welsh

I'd have thought any CoH players interested would've joined the CO forums and applied for the beta anyway. I know in my time with it, it was mostly CoH players.

Does seem a bit low though.

Just goes to show there are only so many MMO players to go around and these are desperate times.

Cryptic being unprofessional like this? WHo would've thought it. Not cool at all, esp in game messaging.

Well, tbh it is the best place to find beta players for your new superhero game. Not actually illegal, just a bit harsh.

Though at first I just giggled a little and thought, well, it isn't the worst thing in the world.

But the more I think about it the more I think it's a pretty sucky move by Cryptic. It's unprofessional to the core and really not good PR.

Truth to be told, a friend of mine is interested in this one. Myself, being coh player and having my reservations for mmo's meant for pc and console at once, I wasn't really that interested. Still, yesterday I did some search on champions online footage.

Here's my impressions.
It's stylized, and very action oriented. As a matter of fact, it seemed like copy of freedom force, a decent (if a bit old now) superhero singleplayer game. Only without physics engine making fights a bit dull (how many times can you watch one and the same animation before it goes stale?) and with overdone power animations, looking more like something from korean grinder crossed with fourth july firework show.
They didn't show or mention how is the story (a game element I'm interested in) going to play into general experience, or how many of those are going to be there. I can only guess based on history of city of heroes, which at first offered little other than endless fighting of baddies on the streets.
All in all, it feels like console action game that might have been released couple years back (when in game physics wasn't in games that often).

PS. Champions online footage I saw comes from gametrailers.

small beer.

Oh. My. God.

This might well be the event that future historians will be convinced started World War III. The silent cybershot that made a rivalry and cold war between MMO companies go into ballistic mode, killing the interwebz and its users one by one.