City of Heroes Review

GamesFirst! has tossed up a review of City of Heroes, giving the superhero MMORPG an overall score of 4/5. Their conclusion to follow:

Overall I think that this is a wonderful game that plays into most people’s inner fantasy of being a superhero. It is an easy game to grasp and fun to play. I really appreciate the fact that you do not have to sacrifice your personal or professional life to accomplish anything in the game. It is fun to play for 20 minutes or 15 hours. I could see some people becoming disenchanted with the beat ëem up aspect of the game, as it could become repetitive, but I think the overall joy the game brings to a player is refreshing and will overshadow the repetitiveness. NCSOFT is very fast with updates. There are almost always new areas to explore and new game tweaks to smooth out trouble spots. Perhaps the best news is the expansion pack that will be available commercially soon – City of Villains. This will allow players to create super villains to battle all the do-gooders who are currently running around beating up the undesirables in the world. This should also add PvP capability to the game – something that is lacking currently. I think this is a fun and fresh interpretation of the MMORPG genre and I hope it inspires other developers to reinvent future ideas for these games.