City of Heroes grows again

By Robert Purchese Published 3 October, 2007

Issue 11 shows face.

NCsoft has revealed the 11th expansion for massively-multiplayer online game City of Heroes.

It's all about a bunch of really old aliens from the Ouroboros organisation who have time travelling powers you can use. This means you can "flashback" to historical moments in Paragon City's past, reliving major battles or doing quests you never had time for because you had to eat or go to the toilet.

But there are also new things to do, both for beginners and lifers.

There are two new power sets for Brute, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker classes. Dual Blades lets you use a combo system to swish various weapons about in both hands. Willpower is for resisting and defending against attacks, and even allows you to regenerate your health.

On top of this are purple invention sets, or "very rare" crafted items to the likes of you. Taunt, Debuff and Buff powers have their own crafted sets now, too.

City of Heroes appeared in Europe on 4th February 2005 - just a handful of days before World of Warcraft.

But rather than allowing itself to be squashed under the success of Blizzard's creation, Cryptic Studios has continued to grow CoH by adding playable baddies in the City of Villains expansion and numerous other updates.

Cryptic Studios is also currently working on a 360 and PC MMO for Microsoft called Marvel Universe Online - based around characters from the same comic book licence City of Heroes was criticised for copying many moons ago.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Olemak #1 4 years ago

    Sweet. Dual blades sounds good.

    I'll be heading back to Paragon City, then - if only I had more time for games!

  • spimmy #2 4 years ago

    sounds ALOT like the caverns of time in wow

  • M83J01P97 #3 4 years ago

    Yeah... bit of a too obvious copy there isn't it...

  • AOFanboi #4 4 years ago

    It's really irrelevant that CoH appeared around the same time as WoW since it caters to a completely different audience. It appeals to superhero-oriented gamers who want a more basic but good-looking MMO. They have found a niche, and their competitor in that area - the Marvel and DC MMOs - never seem to actually finish.

    So, congrats to CoX players with another free expansion in the never-ending line.

  • Markusdragon #5 4 years ago

    Well, I''d probably better head back into paragon, as this sounds amazing as ever.

  • MBar #6 4 years ago

    I always said I'd go back when there were more Tanker Primaries.

    Oh, lookie here.

    /edit: Jesus, it's obviously too early in the morning to expect proper spelling and grammar from my brain ...
    Edited by 1 at 04/10/07 @ 09:08