Champions: Return to Arms Preview

Game Over Online has published a short preview of Sony’s upcoming action RPG sequel, Champions: Return to Arms. An excerpt to follow:

While you don’t need to have played the first game to enjoy Return To Arms, players who’ve spent time facing down the dangers of Norrath will be able to import their characters from their saved games. So if you’ve nurtured a character from the original title, you’ll able to literally unleash level 50 characters on the forces of darkness from the start. The game does allow for further leveling up of these powerful heroes, so by the end of Return To Arms, you should be able to crush anything in your path. If you’d rather take a new warrior into battle, you’ll have the option to take any one of the ten returning characters from the first title or one of the two newer classes, the Vah Shir Berserker and the Iksar Shaman. The Vah Shir, a catlike race of bipedal warriors, use much more brute force than subtlety, running into the midst of combat without regard for their personal safety. Many of their powers revolve around hand-to-hand combat and strengthening attacks. The Iksar Shaman, on the other hand, is primarily a ranged combatant. Not particularly strong at hand-to-hand combat, it uses a lot of natural attacks such as insects or poison darts to defeat its opponents.