By John Walker on February 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pm.
Following on from this morning’s demonstration of Star Trek Online’s character creator, there’s finally more footage of Champions Online. Since Kieron brought you the definitive coverage of the game so far last July, it’s been pretty quiet. However, a very brief glimpse appeared at New York Comic Con, and it’s below.
Called the “Police Brutality” trailer, it briefly depicts some melee combat between two strikingly different characters. And not a lot else. And I swear I’ve seen that fountain in another game. But still, it’s good to see this game moving for once – more please.
And of course you should compare and contrast with the DC Universe footage.
09/02/2009 at 23:23 PHeMoX says:
Those videos look good, has a bit of a Freedom Force vibe to it. Nice!
09/02/2009 at 23:40 An Innocuous Coin says:
I feel oddly underwhelmed, somehow. It just looks like a somewhat prettier City of Heroes to me, and that game is still going strong.
10/02/2009 at 00:32 SanguineLobster says:
It does seem to have some strange animation issues, well, we’ll see what happens as it goes on.
10/02/2009 at 00:53 PaulMorel says:
hmmm, what to say about that combat. It looks like a cross between turn-based and button mashing … it kind of looks KOTOR-ish … but I don’t know. The video certainly doesn’t make me any more excited.
But I think that I have committed to being a launch-day buyer on this one anyway. If it’s just a tiny bit better than CoH, then it will be a good game.
10/02/2009 at 02:34 Foca Mais says:
Was that Juggernaut against a female Daredevil ? Cool !
10/02/2009 at 05:07 thefanciestofpants says:
That was cool and all, but need moar.
Like, how bout a couple of hours of someone playing with the character creation?
10/02/2009 at 06:51 Anthony Damiani says:
Could have used more physics– felt weird to see them wailing on each-other and not being knocked back at all.
10/02/2009 at 08:05 Catastrophe says:
Is that not a reskinned video of the Starwars MMO you shown us a few days back?
Distinct lack of knockback/lightsaber damage.
10/02/2009 at 09:19 Bobsy says:
Mph. Agreed that the animations aren’t altogether convincing. I guess blocking was being employed in that fight, but you couldn’t really tell for sure. Still, it’s nice to see something from it.
10/02/2009 at 12:22 TooNu says:
That fountain is in City of Heros, they are everywhere but mainly found inside of Atlas park behind the central goverment building. There is also one in Steel city if my memory serves me right, it is found at the giant statue.
I rarely buy or play a game based on graphics luckily for me, I pity the people that go with that sort of theory. Graphics make the game, bollocks.
If the gameplay is good and something you want, then you will love the game. I can not wait to play this game for example.
10/02/2009 at 14:10 Hmm-hmm. says:
Not that impressive, really. I wonder if they’re pulling their punches or not.
10/02/2009 at 14:11 Hmm-hmm. says:
..they being Cryptic, of course.
10/02/2009 at 17:35 Tei says:
Very short video, I will make a short comment:
[Is the..]
10/02/2009 at 17:50 BeamSplashX says:
POLICEMAN: We need a champion!
(enter QUEEN)
QUEEN: Weeeeeeee are the Champiooooons!
10/02/2009 at 18:15 Theoban says:
Looks a bit…and I’ll probably get slaughtered…but the combat looks a little WoW-esque. Run up to something, hit it for a while. Neither of them seem to react much (apart from the initial ‘smack little creature away’ move)
Am I expecting too much from an MMO? Maybe. But surely a Super-Hero MMO should be, well, super. And heroic.
11/02/2009 at 01:36 Arathain says:
If it’s like City of Heroes, then melee players are mostly protected against getting knocked about, whereas squishier characters and mobs get knocked down, up and back by suitable abilities. Nice looking animations, just as I would expect.