This game is fun and addictive. I’v put in 300 days of play time and plan to put in more after a 2 month break from it.

Lets start with the bad parts. The PVP isn’t that good, only a few instances to choose from. You need to have a good internet conection or you well have alot of lag/pushback and sever dissconnect problems. You have to do alot of grinding in order to Level up. Level cap is 40. Crafting is can be a pain if you want to change from one specialization to another. You have to start from zero skill points and work up again to the max skill level and they only let you have one crafting specialization. If you want to go back to your previous crafting skill you have to start all over again. The liftime subscription is a little heavy, $299. And last, ther are bugs, not realy big ones but after awhile they can get irritating.

Now on to the good parts of the game. -The hero creater is they most impressive part of the game. I’m not sure how many options there are for the costume creater because there is just so much to choose from. -The community is very helpfull, in-game and on the web forums. -You can PVP duel anyware at any time if you choose to. -The graphics may not be cutting edge but the Dev’s did that on purpuse. they wanted to make it feel more comice book like and did a good job at doing so. -You don’t even have to buy the game of the shelf, you can dowload it off the web site for free. -All though I chose to buy it to make it easier to download on to other computers if I need to. -You get to have more then one hero (You start from LvL Zero on all new heroes) and dozens of costume slots for them if you have the Cryptic Points to spend to get the extra slots. (If you run out of Cryptic Points you can buy more on the Champions web site). -It’s Free to Play for those who are not sure about it. You can play as long as you want, but there are some in game restrictions. Lastly, many superhero powers to chose from.

I played Champions Online for a total of 2 days, got to level 13, and realized that the game owners are extremely money hungry, example: you start with 1 bag, you unlock more bags, up to a total of 4, will cost you roughly $2 each, you can only make a total of 3 characters, 3rd being given from the item mall for free, for every 2 characters will cost you 1,120 Cryptic Points, roughly $11, Each extra piece of costume will cost you roughly $5 a piece, not to mention each “adventure pack” will cost you 460 Cryptic Points, and since it’s $5 for 500 points, you can do the math yourself. After noticing all that i didn’t even bother to look for more. I quit playing it the same day. Honestly it’s a good game, but not worth that much money by far. If you’re downloading it and are just looking for a game to play for free, this certainly isn’t the game for you, or me for that matter.