Well, the voice-overs on these preview clips are still wincingly cheesy (at least to my ears), BUT the powers do look great.

I also noticed that the pseudo-cel-shaded "heavy black outline" around everything is not really present in this footage.

Perhaps Massively's speculation that the "effect" might be an optional user-choice toggle will prove true?

I hope so -- for whatever reason, I can't really handle looking at that "cel-shading" effect for more than fifteen minutes or so before my eyeballs rebel.

Giving me the option to turn the cel-outline effect off pretty much guarantees I'll stay with Champions Online past the free month with purchase.