Even they can’t make it sound awesome

WAR Europe did a career spotlight on the Shadow Warrior class yesterday.  Apparently, even they couldn’t get enough glowing, positive quotes to fill up their article. It becomes very clear about half-way through the read that the class has a lot of problems and needs help. If GOA can’t make a class sound good in what is supposed to be a promotional piece of propaganda, what hope do we as players have actually playing it.

I’ll leave you with this quote, and my translation in red:

“For this reason, they carefully wait for the right moment to attack their victim with great precision. A Shadow Warrior’s tactic is to wait for the right moment and then strike like a guerrilla warrior.”

“Kill steal.”

Becoming a Hero

A couple of videos were posted on the Champions boards today. They give us glimpses of tutorial zone you go through, somewhat similar to that in City of games, only more expansive. Throughout the first video, the narrator uses the word “iconic” a lot, like a whole lot, it got a tad annoying. Still the videos were very cool, and gave a real good look at some of the game play. The opening concept is that Millenium City has been attacked by alien bugs, and they focused on the Champions first, so there is a need for a hero. In comes you the player to fill that role.

They also introduced what they call “The Powerhouse”, think of it as a training simulator for your potential powers. Essentially, you zone in, buy a power and get to play with it against dummies. The video shows some really amazing things with a might based power and one travel power. The might character at one point is walking around picking up massively heavy objects and tossing them at enemies, and hints to the existence of an F-16 that you can do this with somewhere. Raise your  hand if you want to throw a multi-million dollar war-machine at a pack of Viper agents!