Firstly, the character generator is a marvel. Admittedly, it’s an expected marvel. The City of Heroes one remains a wonder of the world, and this is a continuation of everything we’ve previously seen. So while elements we’ve previously talked to the team about, like the ability to choose the physical stance of your character, are new, they’re logical extensions of what’s come before, rather than a fresh start. Less total reinvention of the concept, more renovation. Which is, I suspect, fine. The key attribute of the system is how it allows you to meaningfully personalise the mood of your adventures, rather than playing another identical orc. Knowing that I could blow hours on this alone, and also knowing that we weren’t meant to take screenshots so I couldn’t amuse our readers by making a gallery of grabs mocking my team-mates, I made a thinly veiled version of Marvel’s top-godly psycho Ares - because you can’t copyright greek gods, right? - and set forth into the world to fight crime and similar.
- koboldkiller <2009-05-12 13:05:44>
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