City of Heroes (PC)

When City of Heroes hit the downtown streets of the underground roleplaying scene in 2005 it made many masked heads turn. It was an interesting concept to release a dedicated MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) based around super heroes set in a comic book world. Would it fail to live up to its super power expectations, though? There was a mad rush of RPG fans going crazy when this game was about to get released - we could hear their screams from the deepest darkest dungeons of Lineage II - yet when they finally got their paws on it, the game was greeted with mixed feelings. The best part about City of Heroes for me, was to ability to ...  Read the complete review

CoH is a very original game, you choose and customise your super hero from scratch using a vast array of weird and wonderful parts like tails, stretchy arms or robot legs. There is a respectable number of different character types from lightning healer to fire mage type characters. The game is aimed at the casual audience that only has 45 minutes to play and provides an excellent grouping system to help you find existing groups from the second you log on. It is also possible to play the game alone although you won't find half as much fun. The community is very mature and polite, its easy to find a group and get help with something and you don't regularly feel ...  Read the complete review