IGN writes: "The first thing I have to say about playing Champions Online with the Xbox360 controller is the sheer ease and intuitiveness of game play. I am primarily a PC gamer and although I do love my PSP/DS, I am not a console gamer of any great skill. My six-year-old nephew drags me around in LEGO Star Wars on the Xbox 360 and sighs when I double-jump, miss the ledge yet again and my character dies another horrible death. So I approached this hands-on preview of Champions Online at their Media Day with a little trepidation if not mild panic. How many different buttons do I have to mash to fire off that special attack?
I really should have been reassured by my knowledge of Jack Emmert, Chief Creative Office of Cryptic Studios. Jack is a long-time tabletop gamer and comic book aficionado, not a huge computer MMOG game player. He is the creator of the sidekick system, a concept that has been adopted by many MMOGs following City of Heroes. Also known as a Mentor or Apprenticeship system, it basically allows players of diverse levels to play together by raising and/or lowering their levels while grouped together, often with added bonuses to both players."
Cryptic Studios announced with a press release that more of its veteran developers have returned to the studio following tenures elsewhere.
The MMO studio says it’s “unifying legacy expertise with fresh perspectives”
Cryptic Studios appears to be the latest Embracer-owned company to be impacted by layoffs.
