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Cryptic Studios from California announced a new MMORPG yesterday: City of Heroes. You can read all about it in this press release:
Cryptic Studios Announces Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, “City of Heroes”
Comic-Book Style Adventure Filled with Superheroes and Fearsome Villains to Release in Summer of 2002
San Jose, CA – September 26, 2001 – Cryptic Studios proudly announces “City of Heroes,” a massively multiplayer online world home to an entire universe of super-powered, comic book style adventure. When the game releases next summer, thousands of players can take on the roles of superheroes, fight villains, and help create the story in a stunning, 3D graphical world, courtesy of the San Jose-based developer.
Super Powered Action and Adventure
City of Heroes is the first superhero themed online RPG and will offer a host of exciting and compelling gameplay features. Players create their own heroes, choosing from hundreds of different powers, skills, abilities, and items and design their own unique costumes. Then they can band together with other players to fight evil, build their own secret headquarters and strive to become the premiere hero group in the city.
Gamers will confront super villains, aliens, madmen, monsters, criminals, and other fearsome foes. They can take on personalized missions and rid the city of dozens of different evil organizations and hundreds of individual enemies. With success players acquire power, wealth, and fame and come to bask in the spotlight and rake in the rewards as their powers and fame grow with each successful mission and every defeated foe.
City of Heroes takes place amongst the skyscrapers, slums, sewers and streets of Paragon City, a sprawling online metropolis that offers unlimited adventure and countless surprises. Players become an integral part of many and varied different ongoing story arcs as the villain groups menace Paragon City and react to player victories and defeats.
“With City of Heroes we’re bringing a new and exciting genre to online gaming: the world of superheroes,” says lead designer Richard Dakan. “We’ve designed this game to not only capture the excitement of comic book heroes but to offer a unique gaming experience. With this game you can literally ‘become your own hero.’ Players can not only design their very own superheroes from the ground up, but they can have a direct impact on what happens to the city they live in.”
Cryptic Studios plans to release City of Heroes in the summer of 2002. For a gameplay movie, screenshots, and additional game information check out the City of Heroes Web site at www.CityofHeroes.com.
As usual, you can find more info about this game (links, later on a collection of newsbits and articles) in our "at a glance" section. |
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City of Heroes announced
