City of Heroes Update 2008

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Features

* Create Your Own Hero: Choose from hundreds of different
powers and design your own unique costume.
* Fight Evil! Confront super villains, aliens, madmen, criminals, and
other fearsome foes. Take on personalized missions and rid the
city of several different evil organizations and hundreds of
individual enemies.
* Form Your Own Super-group of Heroes: Band together with other
players to fight evil and become the premiere hero group in
the city!
* Explore the City: Explore the skyscrapers, slums, sewers and
streets of Paragon City, a sprawling online metropolis that offers
unlimited adventures and countless surprises.
* Live the Story: Become an integral part of more than thirty
different ongoing story arcs as the villain groups menace Paragon
City and react to player victories and defeats.
* First month of play included*

IMPORTANT – Players can play both City of Heroes® and City of Villains® for a single subscription fee (approximately $15 per month)!

*Valid Credit Card or Game Time Card required to activate included time.


NCsoft Expands City of Heroes with Issue 11

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 29, 2007—NCsoft® Corp, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced the release of City of Heroes® “Issue: 11: A Stitch in Time,” a free expansion for current subscribers, which provides players new content including the ability for heroes and villains to travel back in time to participate in world-altering missions as well as a weapon customization tool, two new power sets and enhancements to the inventions system.

The City of Heroes title, of which NCsoft recently took sole ownership, has brought 11 free major content expansions to the game and a stand-alone retail expansion with the 2005 release of City of Villains®. Issue 11 offers new ways for players to tackle the comic-book styled adventures in Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™ while adding new depth and features.

The headline feature of Issue 11 is the ability to “flashback” in time to participate in exciting events from the history of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. Heroes and villains can also use this feature to play or replay hundreds of missions from earlier in the game. Players will be able to set mission parameters to earn special badges and participants’ levels will be set appropriately to ensure that the challenge of each story-arc remains constant.

“Flashback” is an innovation that gives players the opportunity to participate in huge story-lines and opens up missions they enjoyed previously,” said Matt Miller, NCsoft’s lead designer for City of Heroes and City of Villains. “This gives the game greater depth and many more challenges.”

Issue 11 also adds two new power sets, Dual Blades and Willpower. Both of these new power sets are available to the melee Archetypes: Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers. Willpower, a new defensive set, offers a strong mix of resistance, defense and regeneration powers, allowing characters to shake off pain and continue battling.

The Dual Blades set allows Heroes and Villains hold blunt or bladed weapons in each hand to deliver devastating attacks using the new ‘combo’ combat system.

Dual Blades are also featured in the new weapons customization tool added to the game’s lauded costume creator. With Issue 11, players who use an assault rifle, bow, broadswords, claws, villain claws, dual blades, a katana, a ninja blade, a mace, pulse rifle or dual pistols can change their weapons the same way they change their costume pieces. Through the weapons customization interface in the costume creation tool, players can select from a variety of weapons appropriate to their respective power sets.

“Our players have been craving features like these and we are happy that we are able to deliver them,” Miller said. “The NCsoft City of Heroes team is 100 percent dedicated to building and improving the game. This is the most successful comic-book based game on the market and we will work hard to keep it that way.”

Issue 11 also includes new inventions sets including “very rare” purple sets, and a new invention set for taunt, buff and debuff powers.

To join in the comic-book themed adventures, players can purchase the City of Heroes “Good Versus Evil Edition” game pack at retailers across North America, which includes complete City of Heroes and City of Villains games, as well as a set of exclusive bonus items. Customers receive the first month of play free and both games can be played for the single monthly subscription price of $14.99.

For more information about City of Heroes, go to City of Heroes Community Site.