Starting an online game in Champions of Norrath is as simple as creating your character, whose stats and appearance can be extensively customized to suit his or her class, and then connecting to Sony Online Entertainment's game servers. After this, you can create a public or private game with a predetermined number of players (from two to four), and then you simply just wait for others to hop into your game. Once the desired players have joined, you're off and running. Thankfully, Champions of Norrath doesn't mire the multiplayer experience with the more intrusive story elements, such as a lengthy intro, that you'll find in the single-player game. Once we got connected, it was a scant couple of minutes before we were cooperatively bashing in the skulls of a raiding goblin party. Teamwork is truly a beautiful thing.