The game is well made and a lot of fun, but there are MANY things that make me dislike it, which is sad as it's being done by Cryptic Studios after the fall of City of Heroes. I was a player on those servers and I felt betrayed by NCSoft and I once tried this game, but it wasn't the same and now coming back to it...it's still not the same.

My major gripes with the game are as follows:

- Story Arcs are uninteresting and I feel no depth when playing them. The beginning was interesting where you fight a simulated past where Aliens invaded and the heroes fought them off, but back in the city none of the other stories hit a cord with me at all. Fighting the purple gang can get very boring as they are simple mafia thug rip-offs like The Family from CoH.

- VERY limited power uses till later levels. When you start you end up with 3 powers you use over and over which works well when playing with a controller, however it means you're very limited in your abilities as you use weak attacks to build up stamina for better, bigger attacks, but you are still limited to only a few attacks.

- UI is pretty ugly IMO. The chat window is quite small and I often find people DON'T seem to use it. One irritating thing is when pressing F12 for a screen shot you highlight all the UIs to stretch and alter if you wish so you at-least have a option to modify it somehow.

- The paywall is disgusting. Where as with City of Heroes you can combine all kinds of powers to make your own hero, in this one if you go free you get a group of Archetypes to choose from (most locked away behind a paywall as well), but if you want to mix and match to make your own unique hero you either subscribe or buy a free-form slot which costs as much as a brand new game! Not only that, but the free-form only gives you access to the powers you have already unlocked so if you have not unlocked any other archetypes then that's even MORE money to go though.

Pros:

- I enjoy the animation style. It's a lot of fun at times and the travel powers work quite well too and you get them earlier on than CoH which helps a lot when going around the city.

- Costume customisation is one of the few things they did right that they took from City of Heroes and is almost limitless in it's customisation. Plus, if you unlock things like capes and so on, you can use on a new character which I like that they did this as a global unlock.

It's an ok game and if you want to play a super hero MMO, you could do worse. It doesn't fall into the trap of DC Online where you are more imitating a famous super hero than actually becoming one yourself. If you're like me and really miss CoH then I can't recognise this as it will only scratch the barest of that itch as the restrictions and uninteresting story-lines will get you bummed out. I'd instead suggest you wait for City of Titans or many other creations that are on their way.

Here is the titan's website for those who might be interested: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php

I played this game for 1000+ hours somehow and i can't bear to hate it, but over the years they just turned it into a virtual park for the 50~ whales who still play it (no hate from me cuz i bought the 200$ lifetime sub + tip) to just endlessly spend money in and never get any new content, ever. The game is probably only still online because it shares the servers with their other games.
How dead it is aside, it's one of the best MMOs for customization, second probably only to the City of Heroes private servers who might be adding in custom content, i'm not up to date on any of this.
And the gameplay, it was so incredibly fun to make new characters, come up with their backstory, make them look the part, and then spend 2.5 days flying and running around the city, doing every quest you can find to hit the max level (40) before moving onto the next alt.
Normally you can just pick from power archetypes, fire DPS, ice tank, etc. If you shell out the big bucks you unlock freeform aka you can pick skills from every single powerset and even pick the colors for the visual effects.
When i quit playing originally circa 2014 it was because they purposefully made it harder to get some decent mid-tier gear for alts, to force people to spend more on the gear lootboxes they came up with.
Then a few years later, i think 2020, i came back with my girlfriend for a bit to play around with freeform and the core game was still fun, but if you wanna go beyond making lil alts that don't perform the best in big boy content, you'd have to pay 2 win pretty hard.
Anyhow i have good memories of this game and i'd easily spend more 1000 hours in it if we could go back in time.
As it is i don't recommend it at all, go find a decent City of Heroes private server.

Ainda que eu tenha uma relação de amor e ódio com o Champions Online pelas tantas horas perdidas abandonando-o e sempre voltando por causa da sua customização tão ampla e variada para a criação do seu próprio super-herói. É realmente triste e lamentável o como sua jogabilidade peca em todos os quesitos, sendo basicamente aquele mesmo sistema de Quests onde é só ficar apertando os demais dígitos para o personagem atacar daquela maneira totalmente artificial, entediante e dura, e além disso, nem ao menos tem uma trama decente que de fato siga pelo menos o que a gente espera que é uma linha do tempo que te prenda para chegar ao tal "nível máximo" do jogo como é no seu rival do gênero: DC Universe Online. E como isso incomoda para mim pois o Champions Online sempre teve um potencial enorme que só da sua customização já me faz sempre ter vontade de revisita-lo só para criar o meu próprio super-herói de novo, mas como todo o conceito principal de qualquer jogo ser bom e jogável é a sua gameplay, não há como afirmar isso aqui e consequentemente recomendá-lo apesar de claramente eu ter um certo carinho por esse jogo.