Product Description
City
of Heroes Going Rogue officially opens the mirror universe of Praetoria
and adds the Rogue and Vigilante game alignments, enabling you to
explore the shades of gray that lie between Heroes and Villains. For the
first time in any super-powered MMOG, your moral choices affect your
gameplay experience and determine your character’s ultimate destiny.
Hero characters can become Villains and vice versa, allowing Heroes to
cross over to the Rogue Isles and Villains to experience Paragon City.
Product Details
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Rank: #4350 in Video Games
- Brand: NCsoft
- Model:
FG-XP-COHGR-083
- Released on: 2010-08-17
- ESRB Rating:
Teen
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Windows XP, Mac
OS X
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Dimensions: .40 pounds
Features
- Explore
the new alternate universe of Praetoria
- Change alignment from
Hero to Villain or Villain to Hero
- Choose from exciting new
power sets
- new Praetorian-themed costume pieces
- Experience
new additions to the Mission Architect system
Editorial
Reviews
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Product Description
What forges character? What shines at the
heart of a Hero or hides in the mind of a Villain? City of Heroes Going
Rogue adds the Rogue and Vigilante game alignments, enabling you to
explore the shades of gray that lie between Heroes and Villains. For the
first time in any super-powered MMOG, your character's moral choices
affect gameplay experience and determine your character's ultimate
destiny.
Choose from exciting new power
sets!View larger. |
Change
alignment from Hero to Villain or Villain to Hero! View larger. |
A new alternate universe,
Praetoria. View larger. |
Pick
from numerous new Praetorian-themed costume pieces. View larger. |
Synopsis
City
of Heroes Going Rogue, the first City of Heroes expansion since the
launch of City of Villains, opens the mirror universe of Praetoria,
whose bright utopian faÇade hides dark secrets. As you investigate this
brave new world, searching for the truth behind Emperor Cole and his
Praetorian guard, brutal foes and fierce allies emerge, turning this
illusory paradise into an urban battlefield.Features:
- Explore
the new alternate universe of Praetoria with content spanning multiple
new zones, new missions that reveal hidden secrets, and new villain
groups to battle. Praetoria was built from the ground up to support
Ultra Mode graphics that create a heightened level of detail in
lighting, reflections, shadows, and water effects.
- Change
alignment from Hero to Villain or Villain to Hero based on your moral
decisions. Heroes can now cross over to the Rogue Isles, and Villains
can experience Paragon City for the first time.
- Start as a
Praetorian and decide to follow the Loyalists or join the Resistance.
Evolve into a Hero or a Villain based on your moral choices.
- Choose
from exciting new power sets, including Dual Pistols and Demon
Summoning.
- Pick from numerous new Praetorian-themed costume
pieces.
- Collect new badges, experience new additions to the
Mission Architect system, enjoy additional free character slots, and
more.
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Customer Reviews
A Well-Done "Super-Expansion" with a Couple of Hints
for the Frustrated
As I always say, I am not an
avid "gamer," but I have been playing CoH/CoV for years, on and off.
"Going Rogue" is, as one reviewer already pointed out, a "super
expansion" that allows the player to be more or less morally ambivalent
up to level twenty when you must choose your character's "good" or
"evil" destiny. This means more story arcs, new foes, and a refreshing
update far more pleasureable to the casual player than the "Architect"
edition, although that is not a negative comment on "Architect." I did
run into some problems though, and I am going to discuss those and their
basic "fixes."
1) This game has gotten huge. This means that
before you purchase it, you MUST make sure your PC meets minimum
requirements, although I would recommend much more if you want the game
to run smoothly. I am not sure "minimum requirements" listed on the box
will cut it anymore.
2) If you install and encounter terrible
"lagging," the simple solution is to play in "safe mode." This will
reduce graphics to their minimum, but the game is so well designed, I
cannot see any meaningful difference between "safe" and "normal" mode,
with perhaps the exception of a shade more sharpness and brightness. To
get to "safe mode" is easy. When the game starts, log in. After the
updater screen finishes, you "accept" and this takes you to the next
small box scren before you actually begin playing. At the bottom right,
there is a little white box marked "safe mode." Click it, and you should
have no problems. If you do, the log in screen has a button that will
take you to the NCSoft community website. It is full of helpful posts
written by polite and patient folks and has a great and simple search
function.
3) For a new player, let me also say this. NCSoft has
superior customer service, and their rates to play have not risen
significantly at all over the years. I have never been less than 100
percent happy with the courtesy, competence, and patience of their
staff.
So, if you are looking for a MMORPG, I cannot recommend
this line highly enough. And if it gets old, leave it on your computer
and come back to it in a few weeks or a couple of months. It always
seems to be fresh again.
Recommended!
Going Rogue Going Great
I had stopped playing City of
Heroes for awhile and decided to come back to it when Going Rogue came
out. I have to say I am very impressed with the Preatorian alternate
world angle. I also have enjoyed the new duel weilding pistol hero. Now I
can go gunfu on the badguys. The moral choices angle give the whole
quest system an interesting flavor and I really like where it is going. I
have not really found anything to complain about for the expansion and
would recommend it to friends.
I'd
rather be a superhero
Unlike most games where it is
all about colleting stuff and fighting other players, City of Heroes
allows you to bring out your inner super hero. The new going rogue
expansion allows you to change your character's perspective. Are you
superman, the shining hero, or are you Batman, the dark knight? With
this expansion you can custom tune your characters to be a good, or evil
as you wish.
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