Champions Online Preview

Massively.com is offering a preview - kinda - of Champions Online. Rather, it's an extraction of useful info from the Game Informer magazine preview.
Wait, that's not all -- you'll also get to pick your movement animation as well. Are you some kind of were-beast? Well now you can walk on all fours, like the crazed creature you've always wanted to become. Or perhaps you're more the robotic type, well fear not as your machine-man will clank its way across the screen appropriately. Heck, even sorcerers supreme (of the non-strange variety, of course) can float just above the ground in a fittingly wise and all-powerful manner.

Feeling like that wasn't enough, Cryptic is also giving players the chance to create their secret identity at the start of their careers. You can maintain said identity, but eventually the opportunity will arise for your secret to be let loose. Should you decide to take this path, missions will change drastically -- which is a bit vague but has us quite curious.

Behold! We're still not done, superheroes have weakness and strengths, right? Should you choose to be nigh invulnerable, some kind of weakness is required -- you could pick fire, ice or something else entirely as yours, if you like. This is probably an example as to how power-balancing will work -- a weakness for a very useful power.