Freshly baked Champions Online screens expose environments
by Kyle Horner 
Feb 10th 2009 at 11:00AM
Filed under: Screenshots, New titles, News items, Champions Online
Coming from a technical standpoint, these new screens are certainly pushing more visual power than in previous looks at the game. But what really makes them pop is the art direction and, more specifically, the color palette combined with a good dosage of visual fidelity. It's still an incomplete concoction of four-color inspired yet modern visuals, but so long as progress like this continues to occur, a visual concern is highly unlikely on our part.
We would be remiss for not mentioning that the cityscape screenshot is probably overall the most impressive, though. It's a hopeful sign that Cryptic will be able to paint some awe-worthy vistas within their new superhero world.
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Iokthemonkey said on 11:24AM 2-10-2009
I was quite excited about Champions but then I saw that latest video and now I'm re-assessing my opinion of it... :(
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Johnny_Velocity said on 12:02PM 2-10-2009
Really? I had the opposite reaction. The HD version of the video especially looks awesome.
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Box said on 1:13PM 2-10-2009
The cartoony graphics looks damn sweet I have to say. While I do not, due to my pretty nice computer, discourage realistic graphics I think that cartoony ones that are clean and smooth, but less requiring, is very much sufficient. As long as the environment looks good that is. And the pictures of Champions Online does look nice.
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