Are you a Hero? Playing City of Hero’s
City of Heroes allows you to put on virtual spandex and battle it out against those that harm innocent citizens. With a first rate character creation system, you can make real that superhero you drew in your spiral notebooks in school. Personally, I’ve always wanted a giant robot that uses a machine gun. He was the first character I created when I started up City of Heroes and I never got tired of patrolling the streets like I was a bigger version of RoboCop.
However, it’s the other players that really make this world come alive. While hopping from rooftop to rooftop, like I always wanted to do, it is normal to come across a hero that you’ve never seen before battling it out with a gang of Clockwork robots or breaking up an evil magic ritual. Should their fight turn badly, it feels like a true comic book moment to leap into the fray with your personalized catchphrase to help even the odds.
While there are set missions that give you more story, I’ve always preferred to make my own narrative in this game. All it takes is imagination, and access to a giant robot wielding a machine gun.