Guns, cyborgs and cowboys in eight new Champions Online screens

Nice graphics. Hope the action goes through smoothly.

Champions - coming later to a store near you.

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.

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.

I love the look of it


and HOVERBOARDS please, hoverboards

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.

but travel power only would be a disappointment...I want them implemented in combat :(