Though the game is supposed to be a MMORPG it is more of a "Beat the living daylights out of mobs". But it works!
User Rating: 9.5 | City of Heroes PC
Though City of Heroes is published as an RPG it is more of a massive online mobgrinding game. The odd part is that it actually works. My initial fears sbusided as i came to the character generator screen. An amazing amount of work has been put into creating enough bits to make every character truly unique. The amount of littel customizations available is even expanded regularly as patches are added to the game. The characters are divided into broad classes that pretty much describes what they are good at ie, the tanker is a mighty fine tank, the blaster is quite the good person at balsting people away at range an so on. This makes for a very intuitive character generatoin and is very helpful for the later parts of the game when you want to assemble a team, as it is very easy to see who you should contact and thus minimizes the amount of time spent trying to find teammates and leaving more time for the essential: defeating villains and henchmen. Though it is possible to run around alone and grind random mobs it is really in team missions that the game comes to its right. The missions are diverse and all follow an overall plotline, though most players I know just skip this and completes the mission. Personally I think this is a shame as Cryptic Studios really has done quite an amount of work to give the missions the appropriate feel that you would expect from a superhero cartoon. The community of the game is generally friendly and good humored. One of the best examples that spring to mind is a group wating to do one of the prolonged missions called "Taskforce missions". As people cannot join the team one the mission is underway it is vitally important that all participants are able to stay connected during the entire mission, As the already found members began to grow bored during the wait one of them initiated a game of tag. This quickly caught up people throughout the entire zone and within minutes all was forgot of gaining levels.
All in all the game is absolutely awesome if you are looking to release your inner hero, and it doesn't make it worse if your inner child tags along. Though the game isnn't deeper that other MMO's out there, it is definitely one of the most enjoyable because of the good humored nature of it all 
