City of Heroes and City of Vilians: Good vs. Evil Edition

by NCsoft

Product Features

• Explore your good and evil sides playing as both heroes and villains
• Includes both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles
• Robust character creation tool enables players to create totally unique heroes and villains, each with their own background stories
• Design your fortress of evil - Construct massive strongholds and home bases
• Comes with all content updates including Issue 7 - Destiny Manifest

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000O39QYO
• Item Weight: 9 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: March 26, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,032 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Protect Paragon City as a crime fighting super hero or help Lord Recluse bring it to its knees. Also included the recent massive expansion Issue 7: Destiny Manifest introduces mayhem missions dynamic P-V-P zones and much more. The total experience is finally here in one product for one low price!Features: Includes all new exclusive in-game bonus items! Explore your good and evil sides playing as both heroes and villains. Includes both massive world environments Paragon City and The Rogue Isles. Robust character customization tool enables players to create totally unique heroes and villains each with their own background stories. Design your fortress of evil - Construct massive strongholds and home bases. Now use twelve character slots total per server. Includes Issue 7: Destiny Manifest expansion. First month of play included.Format: WIN XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: T - Teen UPC: 875646000345 Manufacturer No: FG-XP-COXST-034

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Vs. Evil Play Both for One Price, June 6, 2007

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Mary E. Wheeler "ran kailie" (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: City of Heroes and City of Vilians: Good vs. Evil Edition (DVD-ROM)

The submitter below me is wrong, you only need to pay a single subscription fee to play both City of Heroes and City of Villains, all you need to do is set up your account and add the code for the second game to the current game once you've set up the first. Two awesome games, one 15 dollar subscription fee. NCSoft support is awesome for helping customers sort this out.

I'm not really a fan of MMOs but I have to say I've been continually impressed with the City of franchise providing innovative and fun play, interesting character archetypes, and probably the best character builder in any game. I'm also impressed with their continued dedication to free game updates instead of paid box updates for new content.

With the addition of Inventions in April, 2007 you really begin to feel like a super hero or a devious villain, able to craft new enhancements to make your powers more robust and awesome. Veterans awards also make me feel appreciated as a customer for my continued play of the game by rewarding me a new costume piece, or item for every 3 months of play. (I'm at 18 now ^_^).

If you're looking for a fun game, low on gore violence (I consider it to be PG-13), that teaches good lessons for kids (especially in city of heroes), and lets you play out a childhood dream of being a good guy or a bad guy, this is definitely it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding replay value, June 3, 2009

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Grandpa Boris (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: City of Heroes and City of Vilians: Good vs. Evil Edition (DVD-ROM)

CoH/CoV are two games in one. It's a 3rd person "over the shoulder" view 3D game (1st person view is possible, but clumsy).

The two gaming worlds, the "heroes" and the "villains", are mostly separate, but intersect in a handful of "PvP" (player vs. player) and cooperative zone, where heroes and villains can battle it out or cooperate fighting a greater common threat.

First, the negative aspects of the game:
- story lines are shallow,
- graphics and visuals are getting old: the game was published in 2004 and while it has been gradually updated and improved, the engine's age is showing
- insufficient high level content. this is compensate by the appeal of creating and playing new characters of radically different builds

The positive aspects of the game:
- a large number of "archetypes" ("professions" for the lack of better description) to play, different ones on the heroes and villains sides
- each archetype has a choice of a large number of power sets (abilities).
- every power set combination creates a different game experience.
- every power/ability can be "tuned" (through purchased or constructed or found enhancements) to emphasize different aspects of the power/ability.
- depending on the choice of initial and subsequent "contacts", who assign "missions" to be completed in various story arcs and unrelated random missions, different story lines can be explored.

All this makes for a good variety and good replayability.

Another very positive aspect of the game is the visual and audio effects accompanying the use of different powers. Every power's animation sequence looks different. The audio effects are well timed. And the target reaction animation adds realism to the game. When an opponent gets knocked down, the body motion physics and animation are calculated on the spot. So the combat doesn't look like the same motion over and over and the opponent's reaction to the attack is more viscerally satisfying than only seeing a string of numbers whiff up into the air.

Yet another aspect of the game that sets it far apart from other MMORGPs is the highly customizable look players can get from very beginning. Multiple costumes become available for every character, allowing interesting role-playing for those who are into it. In other popular MMORPGs players in the same class tend to look alike. All level 35 night elf hunters in World of Warcraft look more or less the same. The slight tweaks to their armor or color of their pants or hair braiding are insignificant. In CoH/CoV costumes range from human to animal to robotic android to demonic to angelic to an average office worker to a medieval knight and so on, mixed which ever way the player wants to mix them, with highly customizable faces, sizes, masks, color patterns, wing designs (for those who want wings), capes, horns, beards, glasses, chains, auras, etc.

The over-all look and feel of the game is realistic and gritty. NPC "chatter", both by enemy factions and by "innocent civilians", creates an interesting ambiance.

CoH/CoV (or CoX as it's sometimes referred to) occupies a previously empty niche in the MMO games: the super-powered heroes and villains of the American-style comic books. And it's highly enjoyable.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2nd go around., June 19, 2007

By 

JaK "JAK of all trades." (Bay Area) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: City of Heroes and City of Vilians: Good vs. Evil Edition (DVD-ROM)

I originally purchased this game and started playing this game during beta, in 2004. through the first year in 2005. Due to Financial budget, plus school and work, I had to stop. At first i didn't really miss it. Only the past few months or so. After the Great Character customization in Obivion. Playing on XBL, I really missed the world of Paragon. So with my situation improved. i repurchased the dualpack. The only difference now instead of playing on a desktop, i am playing on a laptop. With the finger pad in the middle. its a complete change to my trackball. Still the game is fun. the grouping is great. and I am pleasantly surprised at the additions, bases. Recipes, Salvages, the Entire COV is great. I wish both COV and COH were combined. Maybe they are? But still great game.
I did try to use my 360 controller. but found a) the right analog stick inoperable, and after downloading a program to remap. I prefered keyboard and mouse, so now i picked up a trackball, as my old pc and trackball are packed away. Still i would prefer it on a pc. But traveling to COH/COV on my laptop is enjoyable. and definatly do not regret rebuying the game. I even recreated my same hero, with additions to and origin story to the 2 yr hiatus. from 2005 to 2007...
See you all in Paragon