City of Heroes

1001 Video Games

City of Heroes appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Christopher Reeve memorial

As City of Heroes is centered around superheroes, some players have set up a living memorial at the Virtue server upon learning of the passing away of Christopher 'Superman' Reeve at October 10, 2004.

Comic

A subscription to the game also, as of 2005, gets you a subscription to a real, actual monthly comic book based on the game, and featuring prominent NPCs from the game as main characters. The game's comic book sometimes features actual players' characters.

Novels

On top of a collectible card game, numerous comic books and a pen-and-paper RPG, CDS published two novels set in the City of Heroes universe: The Web of Arachnos (2005), by Robert Weinberg; and The Freedom Phalanx (2006), by Robin D. Laws. (A third, The Rikti War, was written by Shane Hensley and due for 2006 publication, but never released.)

Rating

Cryptic Studios originally refused to release the game with anything harsher than an E rating. This, obviously, did not happen, as the game is rated T.

Role playing server

Though there is technically not an official Role Playing (RP) server, the Virtue server has been the "unofficial RP Server" since the game was originally launched.

Universe merge

In July 2008 NCsoft announced the complete merger of its City of Heroes and City of Villains titles into one game universe. Current subscribers who only had one of the titles received access to the features of both games, and new sales grant access to both.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2009 – Most Humorous Trailer of the Year
• Computer Games Magazine
  • March 2005 - #9 Game of the Year
• Computer Gaming World
  • March 2005 (Issue #249) – MMORPG of the Year
  • March 2005 (Issue #249) – Best Character Creation of the Year
• GameSpy
  • 2004 – #8 PC Game of the Year
  • 2004 – Best Use of Spandex of the Year (PC) (for its character creation system)
  • 2011 – #5 Top Superhero PC Game (together with City of Villains)

Information also contributed by Afterburner, PCGamer77, Pseudo_Intellectual, Weston Wedding and Zack Green