The game was fun to play for a little while, but didn't have enough to keep me hooked. To me it just never felt polished or finished. And teaming was very difficult and not well supported in-game. Most of the people I showed it to came out with a pr…
A few posts above me has a pretty good layout of the actual storylines, but I would more or less agree with the second poster. It's pretty much all the same; you'll see a few new instance maps, but mainly you'll grind through the same ones over and …
I think the fast death of Auto Assault may have partially come from a lot of negative buzz coming out from the Beta, that the Devs were having a lot of problems keeping the client stable and that the game just didn't have strong retention; the game …
Its even possible that they saw the slower leveling progression as a 'positive' thing, given the belief that if a player has reached level 50 and seen all the content, they'll be inclined to leave the game. (My first instinct was actually to build A…
Had you played City of Villains?
If not, I say give that a whirl... if you're sick of elves and magic I don't think you'll be happy jumping back into WoW. But CoV is a fresh take on the CoH engine, and I think the character classes (archetypes) a…
Here's an overview of how the game works, which I think answers most of your questions (I can't answer anything about the European servers):
During the course of the game you will receive various "Contacts" who each provide a series of Missions, u…
I think every one before me summed up the experience nicely, but I wanted to underscore that at it's heart, CoH/CoV is a PvE game and PvP is quite 'tacked on.'
And while the temporary level adjustment in the PvP zones help a lower-level character…
While I think the fact that it was a niche game definitely hampered it from ever being a gigantic success, I think poor word-of-mouth and poor reviews hurt it even worse.
As one who was in the entire AA Beta and even gave it a shot with their Free …
From a lurker who put many months into CoX:
Give a free trial a go, the costume generator alone is worth the price of a download, but be cautious about subscribing for the long term. The fun and "shininess" of the game is infectious, btu I found it…