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Score 8.4
Developer: Cryptic Studios
Publisher: NCsoft
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"City of Heroes lets you create your own unique superhero who starts off strong and grows much stronger as he or she keeps taking down Paragon City's ruthless criminal element. The game is attractive and accessible and features big, fast-paced battles. Above all, it succeeds at bucking most of the [MMORPG] genre's bad trends, and this is an amazing accomplishment. Yet, City of Heroes is so streamlined that it actually feels rather stripped-down in some respects; admittedly, there's really not much more to the game beyond battling lots and lots of packs of computer-controlled bad guys. So it might not have what it takes to keep you glued to your PC for the next five years (especially not at $15 a month after the first 30 days), but for a while, it sure is fun."

Watch the video review of City of Heroes It's been years since a massively multiplayer role-playing game scored as highly on GameSpot as City of Heroes has. The genre has been mired in a long funk of me-too titles--games that fail to live up to their prerelease promises or games that simply don't function properly upon release. City of Heroes breaks through the MMORPG malaise with a fresh premise, fast-paced combat, and an incomparably robust character-creation system. Rather than start you off as a weak peasant who has trouble defeating rats, as in most MMO games, City of Heroes lets you create a powerful comic book-style superhero--right from the start--that's ready to battle evildoers. The fighting is much more compelling than in most other games of this type because of large-scale skirmishes and the over-the-top superhero powers you and your party will be employing against villains. The flexible character-creation system also allows you to create near-carbon copies of your favorite comic book heroes, or you can come up with unique creations of your own.

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