City of Heroes - Preview

This is a place where we can all be heroes. Set in a metropolis overrun by villains, City of Heroes brings the world of comic books and movies alive in the first PC MMORPG of its kind.

City of Heroes (denoted as COH from here out) is a MMORPG set in a comic book world called Paragon City. It is up to you, the player, to create a super hero and right the wrongs and injustices of the world. Let me tell you, creation is where some real fun lies.

When you first start COH, you log in, then choose your server. Right now, during beta, the servers are loaded for bear. It may be hard to get onto the crowded ones. After to log in, you either choose an already created hero, or create a brand new one. With all the options to choose from, you’ll fill up your eight characters slots pretty quickly!

A hero is made up of an origin and an archetype. There are five origins: Science, Mutation, Magic, Technology, and Natural. Originally, the origins were to play a bigger part in the game, controlling what powers a particular hero had access to from the beginning. However, this was changed to have origins control from which agency you get missions from and where you get enhancements from. More on that later.