City of Heroes Beta Impressions

Gamers With Jobs have put together a preview of City of Heroes, based upon some hands-on experience with the ongoing beta test. Check it out:

When I entered City of Heroes for the first time, one of the things that quickly grabbed my attention was the scale–the towering statues, the twenty story buildings, the looming forcefield walls that stop masses of gibbering aliens from overflowing the city and turning the civilians into lunchmeat. The second thing that grabbed me were the civilians themselves there are tons of them, they’re everywhere, and they move around like real civilians would. The only thing that breaks the touch of realism is that civilians will ignore bad guys unless they’re the ones directly being assaulted. Purse snatcher fighting with a woman on the sidewalk? Civilians just pass on by, unconcerned. I just shrugged it off and assumed Paragonians are like New Yorkers.