City of Heroes
City of Heroes is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) based on Super Heroes and Villains in a city called “Paragon”. The game was created by Cryptic Studios and published by Ncsoft company. The game is about making a Super Hero who defends the city and its surrounding areas from evil doers day and night, which has always been exciting in public, from the comics to the television and now the internet. The game was soon followed by an expansion “City of Villains” which now is merged with game as a whole. The expansion brought the expansion of creating Super Villains and becoming the bad guys in the age old epic of the Good VS Evil saga.
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From the start of any RPG game, players need to create their character for the game. The character creation in this game is as unique as the game itself as there are not many or any game like it. First, players have to choose from five Origins of where or what they were and are. Origins is mostly just story fill-in but they do limit the choices of Enhancements you can use. They also change the Villians you bump into and the types of enemies you face. City of Heroes tries to tie your story line in with your game play.
Then there are five Archetypes to choose from which will be explained further later, Players get to choose a set of primary and secondary powers,they have to make an avatar
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and a costume for their Hero or Villain, lastly and uniquely players will create an individual battle cry and can make a background story for their character for the extras.
The gameplay is made of two things Archetypes and Origins, Origins are the type of enhancements that are limited to each origin to advance on and to be able to use them, Origins can be said to be powers that have different effects for different types of Villains and opposite faction. The five origins are Technology, Natural, Magic, Science and Mutation. Archetypes are classes in the game that effect the powers of the character of the players and the players style of gameplay, there are also five archetypes in which there are Controllers, Defenders, Scrappers and Tankers. In addition to archetypes there are also ‘Epic Archetypes’ which are more challenging and are for advanced players, they can be unlocked after reaching the required level.
Currently there are two Epics for Heroes and two for Villains, The Hero Epic Archetype is know
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as ‘Kheldians’ in which the two main types are ‘Peacebringers’ and ‘Warshades’ who don’t get along so much, ‘Peacebringers’ and ‘Warshades’ are basically enemy to each other but both are actively working for the good but there are a certain faction called “Nictus” who are ‘Warshades’ that don’t want to do good but rather evil, For the Villains the Epics archetypes are known as ‘VEATs’ The two main types are “Blood Widow” and “Wolf Spider”.
Now the game world is basically like all the MMORPGs are about, In this game you can play free style and keep the butt’s of evil villains and NPCs (also evil) that you find or you can make your own small team like those from comics “X-men” or “Justice league” and take down big quests and epic Villains and monsters, The main goal is to protect the city or cause havoc in the city (for Villains), Random phenomenons occur in the game randomly, there are moments when a big Villain based organization is attacking the city or the a giant monster is destroying building wrecking havoc its all up to the heroes to save the city.
The game graphics are not so bad nor so good but they present the elements of imagination those of comic books consistence to bring in the environment from the eyes of Super Hero or
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Villain, the game has a Badge system that allows players to have badges as a sign of performing actions that are not easy to do, Sort of Achievement system that allows players to have a competition between them. Other then goodies inside the game, there are goodies outside of game as well, Players can buy Boosters packs, powers and special limited costumes for a better experience of their enjoyment, Furthermore unlike other games the player’s Character isn’t deleted even after in activity the game grantees a players character would not be deleted even after 4 years of in activity.
The rest left for the players to explorer them selves, The game is unique to its class, it stands a 4 star out of 5.
