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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.

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.

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.

A life of crime is very addictive...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

While not perfect [what game is...?] City of Villains is an extremely fun game with tons of options, and you will probably quickly discover that you're a hopeless addict. In no other MMORPG that I am aware of can you engage in such antisocial activites as robbing banks, stealing rare artifacts from museums, beating up those who would challenge you for criminal supremacy, destroying public property, and kidnapping - those are just a few examples - which makes it all the more fun. Great stress-relief!
Also, you will look at *NO* dragons, no Hobbits, no elves and just remarkably little "middle-earth" type content in general, which is a huge plus in my opinion. There is one main magic-themed enemy group, but they can be avoided a great deal of the time if desired.
Teams are nice but usually not necessary, which can be a big plus.

Those are some of the pros; my main con is that CoV is an extremely graphics-intensive game that will tax older computers severely, and they seem intent on increasing that severity with each subsequent issue. If your computer can handle it, come on over to the Rogue Isles and join us in tearing up everything in sight, reigning in terror and trashing public property; you'll quickly discover it actually feels pretty good to be soooo downright bad.

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.

One year later & the game is going strong!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game if you want to play mmorpg without all the mid-evil stuff... lets face it every mmorpg game out there is stuck in the past!

This game is easy to play & understand. Its one of the few online mmorpg games set in modern times, & allows FULL costumization of your character.

People complaining about the time it takes to make a character are missing half the fun of the game, you'll find dressing your "toon" one of the highlights of the game. As you progress in the game you gain more costume options

Capes
Auras
extras costume slots (you can currently have 5 differnt looks)
Wings (after 15 months of paid/played game time)
etc....

lots of new content added every 6 months or so.

this is a game worth trying if you are still thinking about do so :)

I highly recomend it!

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...

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Love the game for a casual gamer its addicting and very customizable suggest it over wow check it out ^_^

Nice but....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

City of Villians is a fun game. You get to be a villian and fight heroes in a vst big land. There's lots of quests and a tutrial to help you. The only downside is u need to pay each month or 3,etc depending how much u payed. If u get a copy, u might get one month free but u have to activate it first.

It can be good to be bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"City of Heroes" is a good, fun online expierience... and "City of Villains", when combined with "CoH" tops that level of fun off. I have both so this review is only really relevent if you have both games as they play really well off of each other.
Let me start with the basics: character design. It is the same as CoH, yet there are more sinister costume pieces and as you progress further in level you uncover more interesting pieces like a larger variety of capes and such. Of course, with the new Veterans rewards comming out... capes will probably be replaced by the most anticipated wings. Still, the costume design is arguably my favorite feature of the game.
The hunting and missions are all rather decent although they are pretty much of the same vein as CoH... but the new Mayhem missions have a bit of excitement to them because you can destroy the surroundings to "alter" the area. You kidnap people... which actually equates to rescuing them but a small technicality like that equates to nothing big at all. The team ups can be pretty rewarding. Another fun aspect is that when a victim is destroyed, they fall like a real person would... as in dead weight.
The bad aspects of the game... the biggest being issues with lagging game play. If you spend too much time on, the game tends to get a little choppy and freezes. Also, the server for CoV tends to loose connection allot so that contributes to some frusteration.
Still, little things like that don't really detract all that much from the appeal of being a badder than bad guy. It is fun, creative, and sometimes... a little too adictive.

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