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

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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

• Our recommended age: 12 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000O39QYO
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: March 26, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,033 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

Product Description
When City Of Heroes first launched, the world of superheroes and supervillains came to life in stunning multiplayer action. The battle continues as you travel nack to Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. Do you help Paragon City defend itself against deadly threats, or help Lord Recluse bring the city to its knees? The choice is yours, in City Of Heroes: Good Versus Evil Edition. Exclusive two-sided poster featuring Paragon City and Rogue Isles maps Twelve character slots per server (four additional character slots) First month of FREE play included Exclusive in-game bonus items - Jump Jet Prestige Power, VIP Card Teleport Power, new Hero and Villain Costumes Also includes City of Heroes comic books, Prima Issue 7 Strategy Guide update pack, movies, game trailers, screenshots, and more

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Mary E. Wheeler "ran kailie" (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars best Superhero game (and MMO) i've played, May 29, 2007

By	Conor Ford - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

this box contains both of Cryptic Studios award winning titles, City of Heroes and City of Villians. allthough they are essentially counterparts of each other, you needed to buy each game seperatly, as well as pay a seperate subscription fee for them. now with this Good VS Evil pack both games are installed and one subscription fee of 15 dollars a month is payed for both games

i had my doubts but once i got the game going i was shocked by how good it was, and how dull and boring it made my previous time in World of Warcraft seem

1: I am Myself and Noones gonna tell me otherwise!
the character creation tools in this game is a toy/game in on itself. not only is it the best i've ever seen in an MMO, the only games that i can think of that does better is the Elder Scrolls series. you start off by choosing Heroes or Villians, and than 5 class options. each class offers different powers and roles, and there are unique ones that the other faction doesnt have, like a Mastermind for villians who can summon ninjas, mercenaries, or robots. from there you pick one of 5 options from where your character gets their powers from : Magic, Science, Technology, Mutation, or Natural. this adds for a little bit of extra Role-playing but it also gives an extra Super-Power. you than pick a Major and Minor Superpowers pool, which adds more uniqueness in that two players of the same class will likely have very different superpowers. after that you can pick Male/Female/Huge body forms, and than shift the shape and proportions of the character. after that is done, you give the character thier "tights" though there are more options than i care to count. wanna make a superhero-businessman? go for it. how about a purple-alien black belt-military commando? no sweat. as you increase in level other options open up, such as capes at level 20.

2.Welcome to Paragon.
the areas in Pargon City (Heroes) and the ROgue Isles (Villians) are seperated into clearly zoned areas, and when you change from zone to zone there is a minor loading moment. this is both a plus and a minus in that one the lag is allmost nill (thats the good thing), but if you have to go back and forth from area to area, it can get really irritating. Missions are done in small instanced areas, and scales depending on the ammount of people in your group. i aprecciate this alot becausee it takes you out of the overall enviornment and other players cannot disturb you.

3.have i been here before?
one thing that i did notice, and the only thing that i can say that bad about this game, is that the environments within the game can get very repitive, especially when on the mission maps, but considering that this is supposed to be a close-knit urban city (or a prison-island if your a villian), that bears some realism that much of the areas look like one another

4. look at me!!
one of the things about the game that i really enjoyed was the Badge system. when you make certain achievements, like you reach a certian level or kill a certain ammount of enemies of a certain allegiance, it gives you a badge, which can also be used as a Title under your characters title. it adds some personalization to be sure, but for the elitists among us it also adds bragging rights.

there is much more to go over the game, but all in all the game is a very good buy. the first month is free, so what do you have to lose? also, if you enjoy it and you want some friends to join in, there are two free 14 day trials to give out.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun MMO for any type of Online Gamer, January 21, 2008

By	J. Elliott "Brad" (Reading, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

COH/COV is just a simple fun MMO. It is not complicated, there isnt a ton of things you need to learn to play effectively.
Many players that were around for the start of City of Heroes will say how City of Villains is horrible and how it ruined this and that. Remember, that is their opinion. I too played CoH before CoV but for me, it just added more to do. It added PvP but you are not forced to PvP...you can avoid it all together. You arent forced to team, but you will have more fun and level faster. It has one of the best character look customization of any games out there. There are plenty of classes to satisfy people that love alts. There is no "Ninja looting" all loot is random and appears on your character instantly, all money is split up. Most missions you do are instanced. They have added a bit of Raid type events so that large groups can do things together.

Overall - it is a great casual game...one that you can pick up and have fun with a few months between other games you may play. It probably won't suck you in and hold you for years at a time...but you will probably come back to it a few times. Great to play with your children too if you have a gaming family. One monthly subscription lets you play on either side or both!