I'll be picking up this one. I played the first game online with two others guys for 9 hours straight the first day I got the game. Then another 5 hours online 2 days later to finally beat the game. Awesome times
I still have my character save from the first Champions game to carry over to the sequel, WHOO!
Not really all that odd. They got raked over the coals for the last one being a little too quickly rushed out the door, so I'd hope they'd want to make sure they got everything right this time out before doing too much trumpeting of the game's merits.