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I've Loved Every Minute of This Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I originally bought City of Heroes about 3 years ago. I have played off and on as my financial circumstances have allowed, but I have loved every minute I have spent playing this game.

My favorite feature of this game is the character design. There are so many options that you can truly make your character your own. To make a great thing even better, the game developers are currently working on making the characters even more customizable. You choose from male, female, and large male, you choose your archetype and origin (mutant, technology, science, magic, etc) and then you choose your power set. Next you choose your colors and design your character from head to foot. The possibilities are virtually endless.

I recently got a laptop computer and have loved playing on it just as much as I did playing on my old PC which I sold some time ago.

City of Villians is like discovering City of Heroes all over again. One thing that I have really enjoyed about CoV is how it has added cutscenes to various missions. This makes it seem like you are that much more involved in the game. My only wish is that they could do the same for the CoH missions.

The only game I have on my computer these days.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've owned this game for almost 4 years... I think. I took about a year off and just came back to it after my roomate started playing on my account and soon my girlfriend got hooked too. This is a great MMO and has the best online community I've been a part of. The challenge level really picks up in the mid-20's, but this has been relieved a bit lately with the XP smoothing they've applied to the game. You really should try this one if you're getting bored with your current MMO or just starting out in the MMO world.

Still The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After many years and many game updates, this is still one of the best MMOs out there. For anyone who has never played it, I highly recommend it.

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Worth the money, very creative and cool game- so much to do on it. Great game!

User Neutral

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The prospect of this game enticed me the moment I heard about it, but I had jumped on the World of Warcraft train by the time I was even interested in picking it up, and I put it off for a good long while. Besides - City of Heroes sounded fun, but why be a pompous good guy?

City of Villains was what I was waiting for.

So, having picked it up and played around, I've come to find that the game is... fun, but not very deep. The character creation is fun, and the cities are neat, too, but the UI is very cumbersome and difficult for me to adjust to.

As a gamer on a laptop, I don't like having to reassign hotkeys to almost every inch of my keyboard just to be able to function. The chat features are still very confusing for me, and I still prefer to talk to people I know in-game through out-of-game measures, be it IM or phone or something else.

In short, it's entertaining, but you do need a group for a lot of things, and without being able to effectively talk to people near you, and with a lack of a lot of brains to really communicate with, it falls short of the mark of awesome that it could be.

Falls Short

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: August 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well......have you ever seen a preview for a movie that has an extremely good plot and you can't wait to see it. You finally see it and the director falls short of delivering what could have been the best movie you have ever seen. You want to like it, but just when you are about to, it falls short. That describes this game. The premise is fantastic but is basically a 3D version of Mario Brothers. It is very linear/scripted, you can't interact with your environments and it is lacking any real appeal other than the idea of having a super hero character. If the environments were more "Grand Theft Auto" this game would have hit a home run. If it was free online play it might be a good way to waste a couple of hours but @ $15 a month, it's not worth it.

City of Fun/City of nofun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok heres the deal. If you like comic books and comic book super heroes then you will probably like this game....for a while. The character creation is unmatched by any game I have ever seen. Every person I know that plays it and many that have never actually played the game enjoyed the creation process that often can take several hours out of your day. There are thousands of possibilities in creating your super heroes look which is exciting but daunting.

As for game play...I started playing CoH years ago because I wanted to fly. Its that simple. I loved the idea of going flying over the top of the city, swooping down, beating up bad guys and flying away again.

This is still the main reason I play. I love to fly.

Graphics wise, it is not bad, its not too tough on computers, its got some fun factor to it for the first 20 levels. After 20 levels it seems to become very repetative to the point of boredom. You will get tired of the same city zones and defeating the same types of villians and then you get a new city and its fun for 3-4 levels and then it becomes boring again and then you get to a new city and its great.

The story archs are often long drawn out reads that mean nothing.

In my opinion there is no greater fun than flying, except when an alien invasion occurs and you and 50 other heroes from around the world that you do not know are in the streets defending the city. It is an awesome battle and a really neat scene.

Grouping is easy, no matter which of my 20 characters I play I always have group invites.

The "missions" you do are ok.

The zones/dungeons you do your missions in are cool until you have done it them the millionth time.

Overall I reccomend it.

My Experience With Dial-Up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First, just let me say that I'm playing this game just fine with my Dial-Up ISP, and I'm having tons of fun with it. But if you are contemplating buying this game and you have Dial-Up, you should be prepared for a few things: First, you are in for a MASSIVE MOTHER of a Download!! It took me 4 DAYS to download all of this stuff (and I'm not including the Manuel here, that was seperate). One reviewer suggested starting before leaving for work, and let it download while you're there. Well, I did that for a day and a half and I still wasn't done. I stopped the download, but found that I could pick up where I left off, so I spent the next few days downloading the game while I was home and did other things on the computer while it did its thing in the background (my computer seemed OK with this, but it did seem a bit,...um,...'dizzy' for awhile after that first day and a half). The download speed varied considerably from start to finish.

Secondly, there are a few smaller downloads after that first HUGE one, but they go considerably quicker.

Thirdly, I find that I frequently lose connection to the 'Mapserver' when playing the game, which pauses all the action. Sometimes it reconnects itself, but after a few times per session, it'll throw you out of the game entirely. When this happens, you'll need to reconnect with your ISP, then reconnect to the game. I'm guessing that this is because of the slow Dial-Up. If you play in 'safe mode' you'll be fine and never have this problem, but you'll take a decent sized hit to the graphics in this mode.

If you are thinking of buying this game (I have the Coh/CoV 'all in one'), I suggest downloading the Manuel now (it's free from the CoH Website), then buy the game. This way you can learn how to play so you're ready to go when it (finally) all gets there.

2nd go around.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I originally purchased this game and started playing this game during beta, in 2004. through the first year in 2005. Due to Financial budget, plus school and work, I had to stop. At first i didn't really miss it. Only the past few months or so. After the Great Character customization in Obivion. Playing on XBL, I really missed the world of Paragon. So with my situation improved. i repurchased the dualpack. The only difference now instead of playing on a desktop, i am playing on a laptop. With the finger pad in the middle. its a complete change to my trackball. Still the game is fun. the grouping is great. and I am pleasantly surprised at the additions, bases. Recipes, Salvages, the Entire COV is great. I wish both COV and COH were combined. Maybe they are? But still great game.
I did try to use my 360 controller. but found a) the right analog stick inoperable, and after downloading a program to remap. I prefered keyboard and mouse, so now i picked up a trackball, as my old pc and trackball are packed away. Still i would prefer it on a pc. But traveling to COH/COV on my laptop is enjoyable. and definatly do not regret rebuying the game. I even recreated my same hero, with additions to and origin story to the 2 yr hiatus. from 2005 to 2007...
See you all in Paragon

City of Heroes is a great buy!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I received the City of Heroes/City of Villains as a gift from some friends so that I could play with them. Unlike most peoples reviews I want to let you know what the game offers you, so you can then decide if you want to play it. I have never played any type of role playing/mmo over the computer before, but I LOVE this game. I have been playing now for 3 months and yes it is different from any other game out there, so it does take a few days/weeks to get used to all the commands and different styles of playing. The best part of this game is that it is PG-13, yes there is violence, but no gore or meanness, it is just good versus bad, so all my friends now play, and so do our kids (over 13 that is). The bad guys are very fictional, (computer animated for CoH), some include: zombies, nazi's, aliens, robots, and drug-dealing gang-members. The City of Heroes is fun, entertaining, and interactive. It gives you and your friends/family the ability to play together through teams and "super groups", it teaches the value of a team play and good strategies, but you can also play completely on your own or in PUGs.
The downside to the game is you pay every month, but it is simply [...], and you don't have to pay for updates! The good side of a month to month game is that when you don't have time to play, you just don't pay that month, there is no contracts or pressure to continuing play. Another possible downside, depending on your personal schedule, is the amount of time needed to get anywhere in the game. You need to gain experience and influence (money in the game) and you do this by spending hours playing: doing missions, task-forces, coalitions, raids, gathering badges, selling and buying enhancements, salvage, recipes, etc. But, this game will never bore you. There is lots of different zones, radio missions, contact missions, special zone missions, and tons of "temporary powers". There is two hero vs. villain zones and a free-for-all PvP zone. There are alien invasions and "story arcs" in which have special bad guys, like elite bosses and arch-villains. Super Groups have a Super Base's that you collectively create and use. The best of all, is you can create and play so many different types of heroes or villains! There are 5 basic types, but there is a near endless possibilities for primary/secondary/pool power combinations and you get new choices for powers, called epic powers, once your character reaches a high enough level. You can have 12 different characters on the same server and you get to make a whole new type of character, warshade/peacebringer, once you get one of your characters to level 50.
The veteran rewards, temporary powers, free respect's, free costume changes, and the rewards for completing stories are wonderful bonuses. NCSoft has great customer relations and there is tutorials through out the game to help you learn. There are also sites that help great deal as well, paragonwiki.com and youtube.com both have good information and videos. With the amount of information out there about the game, you should know whether or not you will like this game, however, I personally think the good vs. evil package can not be beat. Two games for the price of one, with a free month and only [...] a month to play both games. I hope you enjoy!

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