We've known for some time that Ice Slide was going to be a travel power, but now we've got our very first look at it with the most recent release of screenshots from Cryptic Studios for Champions Online. And what a screen it is, what with an ice-armored shark-man in a surf pose as he, well, surfs on ice!
The image really makes you start to wonder what sorts of characters are going to be possible in just a short couple of months away when the game is finally released.
There's also an image of the elusive Foxbat, and while we've been denied a look at his in-game face, those sneaky Cryptic developers have given us a really cool distortion effect to gawp over. Just imagine it now: a shark-man trained in deadly martial arts. It's enough to make you want to cry with joy, really.
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Posted: Apr 24th 2009 7:24PM (Unverified) said
Can someone please explain why we need another super hero MMO?
Posted: Apr 24th 2009 7:40PM engrey said
Can someone explain why we have a market oversatureated with fantasy MMOs and soon to be Space MMOs?
And another super hero MMO since we have so many out right now *coughCity of Heroescough*, you know what they say, variety is the spice of life.
And another super hero MMO since we have so many out right now *coughCity of Heroescough*, you know what they say, variety is the spice of life.
Posted: Apr 24th 2009 7:58PM Keen and Graev said
What you should be asking is why we need a remake.
Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:01AM (Unverified) said
How would you go about making a superhero MMO without it having similarities with City of Heroes?
-CoX has no gear, CO does.
-CoX has classes, CO does not.
-CoX is limited to one city, CO is not.
-CoX has no swinging travel power, CO does! :P
You might aswell be asking why Blizzard needed to remake Everquest.
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-CoX has no gear, CO does.
-CoX has classes, CO does not.
-CoX is limited to one city, CO is not.
-CoX has no swinging travel power, CO does! :P
You might aswell be asking why Blizzard needed to remake Everquest.
Posted: Apr 26th 2009 12:51AM (Unverified) said
City of Heroes being limited to one city is a convenient falsehood perpetuated by CO defenders looking to grief their competition, thanks to the name of the game.
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Posted: Apr 24th 2009 7:59PM Minofan said
That ice slide is a thing of beauty. *drool*
Together with the inclusion of a Mist Form ability it is pretty hard to resist the lure of chill... except that Pyro's fire-form creation-things went and got in to!
I may wind up with a very strange elemental superhero at this rate.
Together with the inclusion of a Mist Form ability it is pretty hard to resist the lure of chill... except that Pyro's fire-form creation-things went and got in to!
I may wind up with a very strange elemental superhero at this rate.
Posted: Apr 25th 2009 9:56AM (Unverified) said
Really, a thing of beauty? I just see a guy floating with a chunk of ice attached to his feet and trailing particle effects that neither line up with the chunk of ice nor mesh well with it.









