City of Heroes Game Reviews

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City of Heroes

Rankings:

All-time

of 34,649

518

of 7839

115

Online MMO or MMORP

of 244

2004

of 503

Massive Multiplayer

of 180

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each game.

Overall Critic Score:3.4984

City of Heroes Critic Reviews

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GameSpy

Let's see, crazy costumes? Check. Ridiculously destructive superpowers? Check. Snarling supervillain groups? Check. Helpless civilians and highly-placed contacts requiring your services? Check. Henchmen to be mowed down by the dozens? Check check check...read the complete City of Heroes review at GameSpy

GamePro

Level Up?for Justice! Like most other MMOs, City of Heroes is most fun when played with friends. Just going around and seeing all the superheroes people have come up with is awesome, but going into Perez Park with a team of six people is a wonder to behol...read the complete City of Heroes review at GamePro

GameSpot

City of Heroes is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game...but don't hold that against it. If you've tried one of these types of games lately, then you know they can be clunky, hard to get into, slow-paced, and prohibitively time-consuming....read the complete City of Heroes review at GameSpot

GameZone

Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games are as difficult to get into as it is to say. Developers have continually focused on overly complicating features of gameplay to increase the already open-endedness of RPGs. That is what makes...read the complete City of Heroes review at GameZone

IGN

City of Heroes was released to store shelves and I can firmly say that I still really like this game. That isn't to say that it doesn't need some improvements in certain areas, but what Cryptic has created here is nothing less than one of the most...read the complete City of Heroes review at IGN

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Stuff

the upside, you can finally identify with your girlfriend’s frivolous addiction to shoes. Tantalizing tidbits: You can create millions of variations on the basic character class and maintain a stable of up to eight different characters. But once you ...read the complete City of Heroes review at Stuff