The greatest game ever made. And remember, this confession comes from people who have railed against the very creature that is MMOs. Furthermore, this is the most addicting game we've ever played. Period.
A bit like last year's "PlanetSide" in the sense that it isn't afraid to offer fewer things to do while making sure that you have more fun doing them. [Aug 2004, p.66]
Glad to be back to my favorite MMO of all time.
Has all the familiar bits and bobs of an MMO but puts a unique spin on everything.
-Costume creator while aging is still incredibly powerful.
-One of the most flexible systems of empowering your character in an MMO
-Tones of player made missions and bases.
-An incredibly powerful but equally clunky base (housing) editor.
-A market centric economy where nearly everything can be bought with minimal to no RNG. Meaning grinding is minimal only for currency so you can just play to earn what you want.
TLDR: Amazing game that aged amazingly well. Thank you to Homecoming for bringing the game back to me.
Man, I can't believe the best superhero game up to date was made in the early 2000s. When COH came out it was amazing and with each update, we got more and more features, by the time going rogue came out players were able to do things they could never do in any other game change factions in a unique quest chain which can get a hero to a villain and back based of your choice of missions. Your hero build could be totally unique selection of skill sets and don't let me get started on the hero editor which lets players build the hero they want it could have been a unique new hero or representation of an existing one. The other huge feature in the game was the custom scenario generation and the COH community did not disappoint some of the missions made by players were masterpieces that will remain lost. The story in the game and quests were fun and about average but we all know that is not the true appeal of MMOs, when it comes to MMOs it is all about the people you share your online experience with and the COH community is the nicest most openhearted community I've seen in a game, which was an exception for an MMO since most MMO communities tend to be very toxic and uninviting. The homecoming server did show some hope for COH fans but that will be over soon since NCsoft failed for a trademark application for COH2020 unless a miracle happens in court all privet servers will be gone once again.
The overall quality of the game cannot be denied, and if you're a comic book fan, or like MMORPG's, or both, you owe it to yourself to see what City of Heroes is all about.
Even if you only play CoH for the duration of the first free month, it's well worth the purchase. Chances are you'll be sticking around, though. [July 2004, p.75]
One of the few games of its type you can actually play for an hour, take on one of its missions, and have a meaningful unit of experience. Staight in. Straight out. Gamer satisfied. [Sept 2004, p.105]
The versatile character-creation system will, at the very least, allow you to end up with something reasonably close to what you had in mind. The problem is that your looks pretty much have no bearing on how your character will play.
The ultimate example of contrast between a great and enlightened developer and an avaricious, oblivious producer. For years City of Heroes pushed free updates of quality and maintained more than a modest amount of subscriptions. Unlike contemporaries, the game was much easier to pick up due to more intuitive gearing and much, MUCH faster gameplay than had ever been seen by the likes of Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, or Anarchy Online. The character customization was also orders of magnitude more complex than anything seen before. It was truly an evolution of the genre, and there was genuine artistic effort put into it. Then one day some suits that had never played the game in their lives (or any game perhaps) closed out the development studio for reasons that could be described as lunacy at best and malice at worst, unemploying tens or hundreds of people, rendering this product I spent over $100 on unplayable, and displacing a community of thousands of fans who will probably never play another MMORPG again, much less a soulless WoW-ripoff grindfest like an NCSoft title. Do not buy NCSOFT.
with a powerful character creator and a wealth of well written (if slightly repetitive) content, City of Heroes truly is a hidden gem of the MMO Genre.
Big thumbs up to one of the best MMOs nobody every played.
This game includes a lot of features you wish you saw more in games, such as dynamic and settable difficulty, dynamic missions, a crapton of PvE and PvP arena and zones, time traveling pve missions, custom missions designing, heavily upgradable guild bases & associated raids and artifact control, real-time permanent order based auctions... also.. well, you get it.
All this in a well made superheroes city environment, neat in-depth costumes customizations, a load of different superpowers, and generally somewhat good music!
No really. This game is great. The only very big problem is that there's so few people playing it that three quarters of the features are unused, such as pvp arenas, and often the pvp zones... Hopefully you can still find people for some heroic coop action.
The greatest and most addictive game ever. If you've ever wanted to be part of a hero comic book, if you've ever wanted to fight for truth and justice, or if you've always wanted to be part of a team that is unique and yet the same, then City of Heroes is for you. And if it isn't buy it anyway and give it a try.
So far this game ****... although i'm sure itll be worth the wait... it has taken me six hours to get it started.
first the installation... it crashes every 10 mins, i had to pray to keep it going the whole way through.
then i had to update the updater (:P) and that took about 4 hours in itsself. after all of that i'm relieved and click the 'play' button, and a popup appears telling me to update my drivers or the game wont play... so now one day of my month of free gameplay is wasted!
SummaryCity of Heroes is a super-powered hero based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The game is set in Paragon City, a modern day metropolis full of super powered villains, alien invaders, and underground monsters. Players take on the roles of Paragon City's super-powered defenders. Create your own hero by choosing your powers a...