Champions Online


It doesn’t always make itself easy to like, and it’ll die on the vine unless it gets more areas to quest in and endgame content pretty damn soon, but it’s a fun break from the normal MMORPG template, and even with its problems, worth checking out.


Available on: PC, Xbox 360
Genre: Role Playing
Release date: September 01, 2009
Published by: 2K Games 
Developed by: Cryptic Studios 
Multiplayer Modes:
Online
? player MMO

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Champions Online
Need a hero? Just wave a quest icon and they'll all come running
Sep 09, 2009
Champions Online – hands-on
Superhero comic books are brought to life in this MMORPG, and the people are counting on YOU
May 13, 2009
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…  some character you created in a videogame. And that’s all you need to do to get started in the upcoming massively multiplayer, cel-shaded superhero RPG Champions Online, which we played last week during a visit to developer Cryptic Studios. » Read Full Champions Online preview
Champions Online
This year, MMOs are holding out for a hero…
Jan 28, 2009
What superpower would you have? Us? We’d probably have to plump for invisibility because you can’t kill what you can’t see, and someone has to watch over Veronika Zemanova as she goes through the dangerous process of trying on lingerie. And, as luck would have it, in the forthcoming MMO, Champions Online, you’ll be able to live out these superpower-wielding dreams without the fear of arrest. » Read Full Champions Online preview
Champions Online
It looks like a comic, it plays like a comic, but brother, it ain't no comic
Aug 07, 2008
For Cryptic Studios, men in tights are serious business. Cryptic established itself as a force for good in the MMO world with City of Heroes and its sidekick standalone expansion, City of Villains, but in hindsight, those games seem like mere proof-of-concept for Champions Online, Cryptic’s next superhero MMO opus. » Read Full Champions Online preview
ESRB Rating
Champions Online is rated:
Teen
Blood, Fantasy Violence, Suggestive Themes
PEGI Rating
Champions Online is rated:
Rating Pending