Guns, cyborgs and cowboys in eight new Champions Online screens

by Kyle Horner Jun 16th 2009 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Screenshots, New titles, News items, Champions Online

Eight brand-spanking-new screens for Champions Online have been released into the wild in order to sate your appetite. So what do you say dear readers, is your appetite diminished? Yeah we didn't think it really would be, but that's no biggie. That September launch is only a couple months away and we've got our imaginations to keep us occupied.

Just knowing that soon we'll be able to pound in the faces of robot cowboys -- and do it in style -- is a little heartening. There's also the screenshot above to consider. Do you want to rock some classic Electro mask action, or would you prefer dual-weilding guns? They're both options, you know. We're not entirely sure at this point, maybe we could dual weild guns that shoot lightning. Yeah, let's go with that one.

Gallery: Champions Online Main Gallery

Tags: atari, champions, champions-online, cryptic, cryptic-studios, screens, screenshot, screenshots, september

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

d said on 5:55PM 6-16-2009

Nice graphics. Hope the action goes through smoothly.

Brian! said on 6:29PM 6-16-2009

Champions - coming later to a store near you.

Wjowski said on 7:17PM 6-16-2009

Better late than early.

MrGutts said on 7:02AM 6-17-2009

"CoH2 - coming later to a store near you."

fixed it for you.. :)

aurickle said on 6:58PM 6-16-2009

You know, I'm still not in love with CO's art style. To me, the environments in a lot of those screens looked like CoX with a cell shader slapped on. In none of them did the characters actually look like they were a part of their surroundings. The characters end up looking more like sophisticated sprites floating in front of the scene, scaled to seem to fit. It just doesn't work.

I'm hoping that I'm wrong and that the game looks a lot better once you're in it. Cryptic's decision to go with something that resembles a more hand-drawn look was gutsy. I just feel so far that it wrecks the immersion. And that, for an MMO, is a real show-stopper because the idea of an MMO is to be a part of the world that your character inhabits.

Thraay said on 8:23PM 6-16-2009

The hand-drawn outline look can easily turned on and off via a option in the options menu. As has been stated by the dev's many times.

Robertson said on 6:44AM 6-17-2009

I love the look of it

and HOVERBOARDS please, hoverboards

Aganazer said on 9:21AM 6-17-2009

I saw a hoverdisk in the screen shots released on IGN, so I guess it won't break any NDA to say that Champions has them as a travel power.

BadPanda said on 10:02AM 6-17-2009

Ok am I the only person that has noticed how huge the hand guns look there massive nearly as big as them Old Republic light sabers.

But its cool that dual wielding pistols will be an allowed powers set. Its some thing that think they have needed in CoH for a very long time. Also I wonder if they will have a vehicle travel power in champions I would love to have a motor bike or ride a robot horse ect.