10.25.05
City of Villains (Beta)
After leaving everything on all night, it’s finally ready to play, and so I’ve spent the last hour or so happily figuring out my somewhat rusty City of Heroes techniques. Yep, it’s pretty much the same (so far). You don’t have those faithful citizens cowering in terror or thanking you for saving their lives however, and the background is aptly lacking in colour. And of course, instead of beating up the thugs, you get to batter giant snakes and (possibly well-meaning) officials and guards.
Obviously this is just a first impression (of a Beta to boot), but I feel that there needs to be something fundamentally different to Heroes for it to be a success in its own right. I’ll play it some more of course, and I hope that I won’t tire of its simplicity too soon to go back to (inevitably) Warcraft Online.