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Nice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

City of Villains is way more graphic intensive than City of Heroes, trust me, I know. I've suffered with lag in CoV until I got a new computer, and lag is gone. It is a great game, but i prefer CoH more because it is more populated, and you need to team more in CoH to level. CoV is focused more on damage (i.e. the inherent powers boost up the damage of every arch-type in CoV). in CoH, the inherent powers are usually about teams, well some of them anyhow. I do enjoy playing CoV because I believe it has better powers, but I only bought it so I could use some special features only available to CoH&CoV owners.

Great down time game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought City of Heroes when it first came out, played it for about 6 months and then moved on to something else. I always liked the game, and felt that I would come back to it. Well, I did! I bought the City of Villains expansion pack and re-activated my account. I have been playing now for about 4 months, and I am enjoying the game a lot.

This game for me is mainly my down time game. I play a couple other MMO games and when I burn out on them I fire up COV/COH and play for a few hours. The game provides me with enough change in game play and style, that it is always entertaining.

Great MMORPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this game for two months and it's fantastic. You have a completely customizeable character and several island to go back and forth. The game's missions are a bit repetitive and the story requires persistance i.e. you have to play many hours to move up levels (moving up levels keeps you competitive) but overall the graphics and characters are great. If you like comics check out my website: www.[...].net.

Lots of fun, though may begin to feel bland.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

City of Heroes and City of Villians are an odd mix of genius-level innovation and yet potentially crippling flaws. Both games capture countless elements of comic book mythos in brilliant style, and create expansive, beautiful worlds in which to experience them. The graphics are stunning, though the engine is a little lacking (making the game somewhat lagging at times, even for powerful computers). The game employs PhysX technology, which, for those with AGEIA cards, is a fantastic plus. However, the game is mostly level grind, and aside from unlocking new powers, things tend to feel very repetitive after a few weeks of playing. Character death is punished by a loss of experience, which is both insulting and discouraging (if you die, the game basically "negates" the last hour or two of work you'd been doing). Player-vs-Player combat is lacking, as well, with movements feeling sporadic or jerky (due to powers such as super-speed and sprint), and characters are always rapidly circling each other or flying past the screen in bizarre ways. If you enjoy the super-hero genre, there is presently no game that tops City of Villians/Heros. However, I still say that it only deserves 3 stars.

im not sure to get this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

is this fun at all i hear its fun but is it worth $15 a month???? i want to know

City of Villians

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

NC Soft the company that runs the game is a bunch of idiots.I bought the game and used the free trial peroid to check it out .
I decided I liked it so I paid for three months of game time.
After that I never could log on , after several weeks of e-mails with the company I gave up , there idiots asking me questions like are my cap locks off. I'll never buy antoher NC soft product again.

Doesnt Work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: October 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game disappointed me. I downloaded it and finally set up my account and then I created a really awesome character which took me an hour and a half to look through all the details. [horns,masks,suits,claws,powers,origins etc.] and then I pressed enter the rogue isles and the bottom half of my screen just freezes and the light effects make the top all blurry so I try a couple more times and I never got it to work. I contacted the tech support for the site and they just want me to run a diagnostic test and i dont know what the heck that is so I still havent become a villain...

this game is bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 29
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

in WOW you can level up get armor and stuff like that, but in this game you only get powerthingies and your gudged by your looks and power thingies. i would strongly recomend to play WoW
instead of CoV

good!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Have you ever wanted to play a villain? Than this game is for you!! City of Villains (CoV) is essentially an expansion of NC Soft's previous hit game, City of Heroes (CoH). But the it can stand alone and be played without purchasing the first game.

Absolutely horrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 26
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Cheating: The administrators of the game cheat for certain players and are don't enforce their own in-game rules unless more than 5 people complain.

Gameplay: The game is designed so that it takes forever to level, literally weeks for one level after level 20 (max is 50).

Performance: The game itself is highly intrusive, uses incredible amounts of memory, cpu, hard-disk space (4+gigs) and has many known issues with most graphics cards.

Harassment: There is a lot of solicitation for joining various supergroups, a lot of unwanted invitations. Many people run around asking you for sex on this game if you play a female character.

FEES: There is virtually NO technical support. It costs $15 per month to play this game, even after you buy it. Most people know this, but I do know one person who bought this game without realizing that.

Bottom line: World of Warcraft is MUCH better. Heck, Warcraft III/TFT is better than this.

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