Champions Online

Champions Online is an adventure game developed by Cryptic Studios and released in 2009. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer. There are 709 achievements to unlock.

Champions Online holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for 2.5GHz Single Core or 1.8GHz Dual Core, 2GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon X700 or HD / Intel Graphics with Dual Core. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Champions Online launched on 1 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.