MMORPG Reviews: Part 3 – City Of Heroes

For those of you who enjoy comics and superheroes and the such, this is actually a relatively fun game. It’s been a while since I played it so many of what found to be unenjoyable may have actually been fixed, because I played it when it first came out.  The idea of the game is simply to create your own Superhero and play as him. He/she is put in a Metropolitan area where he encounters gangs and evil-doers.

The best part of the game was easily the character creation. Spending endless minutes just finding and creating the perfect costume for your mighty hero. And of course any good superhero needs a good name. Once you have a look and a name you get to pick a story line. Is your hero a mutant, result of artificial super power, or a result of an accident. This is basically added to appeal to all us nerds who know the difference between say X-men, Iron-Man, and say Spider-man. Next is selecting powers and movement ability. Is your guy a tank, then give him armor spells and typical attack stuff. Is a a mage type, give him distant blasts and radial damage stuff. And of course movement because come on, what super hero just walks everywhere. You can pick between super-speed, flight, super jump, and teleportation.

My first goal was to create Ice-man. I dont remember his name, but I think it was something stupid like Frost or Ice Blade. He could fly, shoot ice shards, create ice armor and an ice sword, and I believe freeze. He was cool and fun to play for a little bit, but I quickly just wanted to create another character. 10 or so characters later, Q-tip, Lizarda, Spike, Syfer, and so forth were created making my own little stupid, but funny superhero team. I stuck with Syfer, a green nightcrawler with mental powers who was quite fun to play.

However each quest, I found I was fighting basically the same enemies over and over and over again. What was missing ? Villians! Arch-rivals! Nemesis! whatever you wanna call them. However word quickly got around that an expansion / new game type thing was being added, City of Villians. Basically it was suppose to add the other side of the comic book world. Same type of the, but evil people. Basically adding a gigantic PvP possibly, similar to World of Warcraft’s Horde to Alliance. But it took forever to come out. I don’t think it actually came out until like a year or two after City of Heroes came out, and by then most people had lost interest. I know my gang of friends and I lost interest within a month or two.

Nowadays, City of Villians is out and a see it every now and then with City of Heroes so I do not know how it compares to its early version, but hopefully its gotten better. I haven’t bothered to pick it up and try and because I got my fill of it, and I’ve kinda lost interest.

“Remember with great ideas, comes great expectations… ” (I don’t know if anyone actually said this, but if not I just said it so Me)

cout << T Evans