Metareview: City of Villains

by Conrad Quilty-Harper { Nov 17th 2005 at 10:00AM }

According to the synopsis on the City of Villains homepage, this game is more than just an antithesis of its prequel, City of Heroes. Villains uses a bewildering array of shady characters, "dark" powers and hellish environments to try and immerse the player in an epic battle of good versus evil. So did the developers manage to make their evil MMORPG appeal to reviewers across the web? The general consensus appears to be a conclusive "yes". Read after the jump to find out why.

Eurogamer (90/100) immediately starts discussing the placement of the game in the top 50 U.K. games this year. Quote of choice: %uFFFDCity of Villains is an exquisitely constructed expansion pack for anyone who liked City of Heroes%uFFFD
ActionTrip (87/100) points out one important gameplay change over its prequel. %uFFFDThe Supergroup system received an overhaul. In addition to the SG receiving a new costume scheme, each SG can create a Base, where members can hang out, plan schemes, and%uFFFDsteal stuff from other SGs.%uFFFD
Boomtown (90/100) talks about the decent graphics in CoV. Which may help ease any withdrawl symptoms FPS to MMO converts may have. %uFFFDAlthough the game obviously doesn%uFFFDt match the latest FPS games, City of Villains is definitely one of the finest looking MMOs on the market.%uFFFD
Rewiredmind%uFFFDs (90/100) brief review highlights one of the game%uFFFDs better features. %uFFFD if you already have City of Heroes, the monthly fee will also cover you for City of Villains.%uFFFD
Gamespy (90/100) points out that %uFFFDHaving the whole package makes the City of%uFFFD games what they were always meant to be %uFFFD one of the best massively multiplayer online games available today.%uFFFD

In summary, CoV appears to offer a strong overall theme of %uFFFDevil%uFFFD (with some interesting gameplay ideas to go with it), decent graphics and the prequel included in the price. If you%uFFFDre a MMO fan, you probably don%uFFFDt need any more encouragement to go and pick up this game.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

brandon @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM

I played city of heroes when it first came out for about a month. It was okay, not great but not bad. I find myself loving city of villains much much more. Why? Because after all this time, the game is perfectly balanced. They introduced base building, and now you can teleport zones. New powers have been introduced. The archetypes for the villains are different than those the heroes have. The missions and their stories have been improved. How fun is it to rob a bank, to take someone down a peg, to steal a cape, to go up against a hero in an arch-nemesis fashion? This is good stuff made even better, and I am loving it.