I had the chance to check out Cryptic Studios' upcoming City of Villains, the sister game to last year's City of Heroes. It brings to the game large-scale PvP, tons more character creation goodness, and, best of all, base creation. Check out the preview!

City of Heroes, an MMO casting the player as a superhero out to cleanse Paragon City of evil, is probably best known for its incredibly deep and open-ended character creation system, which offers a startling breadth of body styles, costumes, colors, powers, gameplay styles, and so on. With this level of customizability, it's no surprise that one of the most frequent questions Cryptic has received since that game's launch is "Can I be a villain?" The option to pursue supervillainy was something the studio wanted to include from the beginning, but they also wanted to ensure they had enough content and features for a satisfying experience, and so it was planned for its own game.