City of Villains review:4 stars (NCSoft Customer Support Lacking) - City of Villains over-all is a fun game. The new Arch-types (classes) are fun to experiment with. The story-lines are a little more intriguing than in City of Heroes, but only because the Villain stories are more prone to double-cross. And the optional Hero vs Villain PvP is quite a rush, if you're into that kind of thing.
An important issue to me is Customer Support, and NCSoft (who supports CoV and CoH, as well as Lineage and Guild Wars) doesn't seem too concerned. When you submit a petition in-game, you recieve an email asking for more information - not too handy while you're still playing the game. Several hours after you respond to the email (usually 2-3, but in my case yesterday it was 5!, and one I submitted in the first few days of release was 18!) you'll either get a GM in-game offer to assist you, or an email explaining that the game is functioning as intended.
Now, imagine if you will, reading a comic book. All of the action takes place in the first five pages. The next fifty pages is filled with the Hero (or Villain) doing absolutely nothing but searching for a nearly invisible item - no dialogue, no action, no nothing. Pretty dull, wouldn't you say? That is apparently how the game is "functioning as intended".
If you don't mind paying a subscription rate for that kind of service, then CoV is a pretty good game. Otherwise, you may want to look into something else.3 stars (CoH/CoV is dead) - ...WoW still reigns supreme. Myself, along with thousands of others have deserted CoH as soon as WoW came out. This game is dead and not coming back. Missions are repetitive, end game content sucks, grinding to lvl 50 is agonizing, the new debt still makes grinding bad, yadayada. Oh yea, I am also having video problems now since the new update came out. Another player was having the same problem and we both have high end computers.
This game blew me away at release. A few months later WoW comes out and owns this and every other MMORPG out there. I am never coming back to CoH/CoV again. Sorry Cryptic, but it's time to realize your once masterpiece of a game is fading away...4 stars (good!!) - Have you ever wanted to play a villain? Than this game is for you!! City of Villains (CoV) is essentially an expansion of NC Soft's previous hit game, City of Heroes (CoH). But the it can stand alone and be played without purchasing the first game. |
