City of Heroes/ Villains is a MMPORPG.
It is about super-heroes in a big city called "Paragon City" and super-villains, who live in a district called "Rouge Isles".
I collect comics and graphic novels since many years, so this game was the perfect choise for me.
At the beginning you choose a class for your character, there are the typical classes like close combat fighter and distant shooter. Then you choose the origins of your character's super-powers, i.e. sience, mutation, magic, training or technology. After you get your first super-powers, the real fun starts: creating you appearence!
There are so many combinations that you won't find one outfit twice. You can choose between almost everything: monster heads and robot claws, cigars and bionic eyes, zombie hands and insect wings, capes and shades and masks of course!
The gaming is based on action. Most of the missions are "Kill this guy" or "Destroy that maschine".
The character development is about getting more super-powers and equip them with so-called improvements, i.e. damage +20%. There are no character points like in other MMORPGs like strength or intelligence. It's all about choosing the right power sets and right improvements. I really like the game because of it's simplicity.
The game is based on team play. Leveling up your character on your own is almost impossible, depending on the profession you chose for your char. Some of them make you a sole team play character, like healer or illusionist.
It's more fun to play in a team anyway, meaning more opponents and more action!
In espacially created "warzones" it is even possible to have Player-versus-Player fights. There heroes and villains meet each other on the battlefield.
The support from NCsoft is really good. They update the game on a regular bases. The updates are called "Issues". Right now we play Issue number 10. With every issue NCsoft brings us a new event. At the moment Paragon City and Rouge Isles are under attack of alien invaders.
Check out the City of Heroes / City of Villians homepages and maybe we will meet at the streets of Paragon City!
