New Champions Online preview hints at villains
by Kyle Horner 
Apr 25th 2008 at 9:00PM
Filed under: New titles, Previews, News items, Champions Online
The guys over at 1up.com have a great two page preview/interview covering Champions Online. The preview itself covers quite a bit, including Cryptic's time with the Marvel MMO, customization in Champions Online, combat, the Xbox 360 version and of course some hints at what we may see for villains. Overall the preview expands on a lot of these subjects, with quotes for Jack Emmert giving away a detail or two here and there.The big tease about the villains has really piqued our curiosity, as Emmert says, "But it's something we're thinking about in Champions: Is the gameplay experience the same for a hero and a villain? But that's part of our top-secret plan we're not talking about."
A lot of people on the official forums have been clamoring for some kind of villain gameplay and Cryptic has previously shown they pay attention to the community. We would love to see the villain side play dramatically different from the hero side of Champions Online. The big question left to Cryptic is exactly how villains will be a different experience from heroes?
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Lemmo said on 3:30PM 4-27-2008
This absolutely needs to be addressed. I think everyone's going to be watching to see if Jack's team is going to make the same mistakes twice, considering how much he's talking about having learned from the past. And one of the biggest gripes about City of Heroes was the lack of villains, and when City of Villains came around, the biggest gripe was how they were just dark clad hero-clones.
I figure they're on the right track, though.
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