City of Villains

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $4.75

Features:

• Massively multiplayer online role-playing game allows players to experience sinister game play from the other side of the mask
• Advance from low level thugs to eventually fulfill their destiny as legendary arch-criminals
• Design and build your own hide-out, lair, or fortresses of evil
• A huge variety of villain missions include heists, kidnappings, infiltrations
• Note: This game requires an Internet connection and charges a monthly subscription fee

Accessories:
Logitech Freedom 2.4 GHz Cordless Joystick	GameComPro1 PC Gaming Headset	Razer RZV-1000 USB Viper Optical Gaming Mouse	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Great MMORPG [Posted on 2007-01-23]
I've been playing this game for two months and it's fantastic. You have a completely customizeable character and several island to go back and forth. The game's missions are a bit repetitive and the story requires persistance i.e. you have to play many hours to move up levels (moving up levels keeps you competitive) but overall the graphics and characters are great. If you like comics check out my website: www.[...].net.

A life of crime is very addictive...  [Posted on 2007-03-23]
While not perfect [what game is...?] City of Villains is an extremely fun game with tons of options, and you will probably quickly discover that you're a hopeless addict. In no other MMORPG that I am aware of can you engage in such antisocial activites as robbing banks, stealing rare artifacts from museums, beating up those who would challenge you for criminal supremacy, destroying public property, and kidnapping - those are just a few examples - which makes it all the more fun. Great stress-relief!
Also, you will look at *NO* dragons, no Hobbits, no elves and just remarkably little "middle-earth" type content in general, which is a huge plus in my opinion. There is one main magic-themed enemy group, but they can be avoided a great deal of the time if desired.
Teams are nice but usually not necessary, which can be a big plus.

Those are some of the pros; my main con is that CoV is an extremely graphics-intensive game that will tax older computers severely, and they seem intent on increasing that severity with each subsequent issue. If your computer can handle it, come on over to the Rogue Isles and join us in tearing up everything in sight, reigning in terror and trashing public property; you'll quickly discover it actually feels pretty good to be soooo downright bad.

Nice [Posted on 2007-04-23]
City of Villains is way more graphic intensive than City of Heroes, trust me, I know. I've suffered with lag in CoV until I got a new computer, and lag is gone. It is a great game, but i prefer CoH more because it is more populated, and you need to team more in CoH to level. CoV is focused more on damage (i.e. the inherent powers boost up the damage of every arch-type in CoV). in CoH, the inherent powers are usually about teams, well some of them anyhow. I do enjoy playing CoV because I believe it has better powers, but I only bought it so I could use some special features only available to CoH&CoV owners.

Great down time game. [Posted on 2007-08-15]
I bought City of Heroes when it first came out, played it for about 6 months and then moved on to something else. I always liked the game, and felt that I would come back to it. Well, I did! I bought the City of Villains expansion pack and re-activated my account. I have been playing now for about 4 months, and I am enjoying the game a lot.

This game for me is mainly my down time game. I play a couple other MMO games and when I burn out on them I fire up COV/COH and play for a few hours. The game provides me with enough change in game play and style, that it is always entertaining.

Lots of fun, though may begin to feel bland.  [Posted on 2008-04-12]


City of Heroes and City of Villians are an odd mix of genius-level innovation and yet potentially crippling flaws. Both games capture countless elements of comic book mythos in brilliant style, and create expansive, beautiful worlds in which to experience them. The graphics are stunning, though the engine is a little lacking (making the game somewhat lagging at times, even for powerful computers). The game employs PhysX technology, which, for those with AGEIA cards, is a fantastic plus. However, the game is mostly level grind, and aside from unlocking new powers, things tend to feel very repetitive after a few weeks of playing. Character death is punished by a loss of experience, which is both insulting and discouraging (if you die, the game basically "negates" the last hour or two of work you'd been doing). Player-vs-Player combat is lacking, as well, with movements feeling sporadic or jerky (due to powers such as super-speed and sprint), and characters are always rapidly circling each other or flying past the screen in bizarre ways. If you enjoy the super-hero genre, there is presently no game that tops City of Villians/Heros. However, I still say that it only deserves 3 stars.

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