Customer Reviews for City of Villains Collector's Edition

City of Villains Collector's Edition
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Video Game Reviews of City of Villains Collector's Edition

Customer Review: NCSoft's latest financial results say it all.
Summary: 1 Stars

NCSoft recently published their financial report for the first quarter of 2006. Revenue for City of Heroes/Villains is down 58% in the last three month period. Keep in mind that many people sign up for 6 or 12 months at a time so this only reflects the people who's accounts have expired in that time. Also keep in mind that this is a 58% decline after including any new players who signed up during that period.

They have so thoroughly ruined the game that most of the people who still have accounts are not playing them (choosing just to let them expire rather than play). They are offering incentives just to try and get people to log on once a week! (Check out the City of Heroes web site for more info).

While other online games (like World of Warcraft) are growing through word of mouth, City of Heroes/Villains is hemorrhaging users en mass. The reason is simple, in order to slow leveling in the game they have made the game a tedious bore to play. You no long feel like a super hero/villain.

Now you could trust the people giving this game a positive review keeping in mind they have a vested interest in getting people into the game to play with, or you could trust the nearly 60% of the players who quit the game in the last 3 months. You have only to go to their own site to see the incentives they are offering just to get people to log on. Fun games don't have to offer incentives to get people to play, people WANT to play.

Avoid this one like the plague folks.

For more info on their latest quarter search for:
"NCsoft Announces 2006 First Quarter Financial Results"

Customer Review: Its good to be bad!
Summary: 5 Stars

Easy to get into and play. does require a little more PC power to run than City of Heroes does. Overall a great game to get into. Great new content.

Customer Review: CoV is fun, if all you're looking for is mindless stomping
Summary: 4 Stars

First of all, you can play all the way to max level without taking part in PVP. Im not sure who the dude is that complained about the new zones only being PVP, but they are not. only specific zones are pvp, and they are the ones the heroes get to enter also. (maybe he was talking from a hero standpoint?) whatever the case, there is absolutely nothing forcing you to take part in pvp. There are no quests that force you to go there, no items from there you have to have, absolutely no reason to go there, unless you want to pvp. I actually wish CoV would have had MORE pvp, but I suppose what they do have is ok.

As for the rest, in city of heroes, when you punch a guy so hard he flies through the air, lands on his face, and then disappears.. guess what buddy, you didn't just "Defeat" him. the game may say that, but you just knocked that dude into the river. sorry to burst your fuzzy bunny bubble.

Both games are just two sides of the same coin, and they are very very similar in almost all respects. if you like CoH, you will like CoV, unless you have moral issues with playing a "villain," in which case, please pick up City of Heroes so I have somebody else to stomp in PvP.

I've been playing for months now and have had no problems with anything on the technical side. It seems rock solid to me, though the beta was rough in parts. The graphics are fantastic, if you have the power to turn on all the cool features and you aren't playing on a laptop, which requires a whole lot more technical experience to get to function like a desktop. I am in the Dungeons and Dragons online beta, and I would put the graphics in CoV up against that any time.

Customer Review: WANNA BE REALLY BAD?
Summary: 4 Stars

The city of Villains is a stand alone sequel of my favorite game City of Heroes. To be honest I was expecting much more as COH player from the new game and I don't blame all these people who criticize it but there is something that we should take seriously under consideration and this that it is a stand alone game and that is how we must see it. I noticed that all the new players who never played COH just loved this game and this shows that my personal complain as an old player of the old game and my expectations should not be as criterion to judge the City of Villains.
If you see it from this side COV is a very special game. All the heroes you can create are big fun and so unique. I would not advise non experienced players to try the player versus player mode and in general I believe that such options should be avoided from those who create such smart new age games. If you have spend hundreds of hours building your hero around Atlas City I am sure you will not be very impressed with this title but if you did not I strongly recommend you to buy and play this game it is something exceptional.
P.S. check for dr.Kickass allways available to join you for a mish lol