Windows

City of Heroes

Description

City of Heroes is the first Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) that lets you step into the pages of a comic book. Set in the 3D world of Paragon City, USA, you become a Super Hero spending your days fighting evil doers, assisting other heroes, forming Super Groups (complete with their very own Team costume), and mentoring Sidekicks. You are able to choose your Origin story and your Archetype, or style of play. There are hundreds of powers for a player to choose from, including learning to fly like Superman or run like the Flash. This is a online game and requires both internet access and a monthly fee.

Alternate Titles

• "英雄城市" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Yingxiong Chengshi" -- Chinese title
• "CoH" -- Informal abbreviation
• "City of Heroes: Deluxe Edition" -- European title
• "City of Hero" -- Korean title

Part of the Following Groups

• City of Heroes / Villains series
• Games made into books
• Games made into comics
• Physics Engine: PhysX
• Technology: amBX

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The Press Says

GamePro (US)	Jun 03, 2004	4.5 out of 5	90
GameSpy	May 30, 2004		90
Armchair Empire, The	Jun 15, 2004	8.9 out of 10	89
GameZone	May 10, 2004	8.4 out of 10	84
Play.tm	Jun 28, 2007	83 out of 100	83
ESC Magazine	May 11, 2004	8 out of 10	80
videogamer.com	Nov 24, 2004	8 out of 10	80
Factornews	Mar 07, 2005	7 out of 10	70
Joystick (French)	Jun, 2004	7 out of 10	70
JeuxVideoPC.com	Jul 10, 2006	11 out of 20	55

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Trivia

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

• 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

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