Welcome to City of Villains. From the moment you load your character you’re hip deep in action, doing dirty work for shady contacts in order to further your career and gain infamy among the populace. The tutorial zone, ‘Breakout,’ tells the story of your escape from prison; from then on you make your own path, choosing which NPC contacts to do missions for, what zones to frequent, and which jobs you take.

As is expected, City of Villains (CoV) has a lot in common with its sister game, City of Heroes (CoH). In some ways, CoV is disappoingtly similar; for instance, many of the missions require the same action (kill all the hostiles, kill the boss at the end, activate the item, etc) with only minor changes to storyline (the hostiles are cops instead of thugs, the boss is a hero instead of a gang leader, you’re activating a bomb, not deactivating it) to freshen it up. But the differences are there, and noticeable enough to be crucial to gameplay.