User Rating: 9.3 | City of Heroes PC
It's an excellent game. It's easy enough to pick up and learn how to play. Coming from DAoC, AC1 and AC2 (and a few others) I found this game to be a refreshing change from the typical fantasy MMO. Character creation kicks butt! Combat is fun and the different powers makes it very unique. The negatives right now are time between updates, lack of major events, and the current balancing/tweaking of archetypes. With the amount of time I spent playing since it was released, I was always eagerly looking for updates (fixes, new things, events, etc.) but it seemed like forever. There were a couple of updates which messed things up. I'm not talking "end of the world" type of stuff, but they were the type of things that made you wonder what were the devs thinking. It's taken them some time to "correct" some of the problems. For Update 1, they hyped it's coming release too soon and teased us with the constant promise of "coming soon". When it finally came, it was a bit disappointing. Don't get me wrong, there were some good things in there, but between the questionable tweaks, the delay in Update 1 -- it was somewhat fustrating. Then there are the in-game events. They have the power to do these whenever they want. The devs have said it themselves. But there hasn't been any major events since the end of beta. Perhaps between DAoC and AC, I've been spoiled with frequent updates. :)