City of Heroes Interview

Panini Comics has conducted an interview with Cryptic Studios’ Michael Lewis, Jack Emmert, and Sean Michael Fish about their upcoming superhero MMORPG, City of Heroes. Check it out:

Q: Will we see a discernable comic style to the in-game atmosphere, with dialogue appearing in speech bubbles etc…, or will it be a “standard” 3D engine style? Did any specific comic artists styles in influence the development of CoH’s graphics, character models and environments?

Michael Lewis (CEO, Cryptic): You will definitely see a game with comic styling. For instance, when you chat, it does appear both in a chat window and in a speech bubble. Players can turn off the speech bubble, but that is an option.

Jack Emmert: The visual feel of the game is drawn from several sources, including comic books. We all agreed that our heroes and villains should be modern resembling those that you might encounter in today’s comics rather than ones you’d see in the ’40s or ’60s.