I’ve been trying GameTrack’s premium tier for the past month and thought I should at least have one go at the review function… This isn’t actually substantial or useful in any way. You’re welcome.

SO you want me to review Champion’s Online, virtually unprompted, in 2024, eh?

Well, I loved and was very invested in Cryptic Studios at the time (see: [Star Trek Online](https://youtu.be/ghUJm9YWiVc ““Tutorial: Run Star Trek Online on OSX”"),) and Champions was already regarded – in a very misty-eyed, not very practical sense – reverently as very much their baby by the time I arrived in 2009.

I think it was 2011 or so that I decided to commit to Champions – despite how thoroughly uninteresting and unintelligible I found the whole idea of comic book superheroes. In contemporary language, yes it was absolutely super cringe, but I remember admiring how well-established (in a very practical sense) the identity of this title was compared to the product they were building on the same platform with identical tooling that was Star Trek Online at the time.