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Alternate Titles

"英雄城市" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

"Yingxiong Chengshi" -- Chinese title

"CoH" -- Informal abbreviation

"City of Heroes: Deluxe Edition" -- European title

"City of Hero" -- Korean title

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Awards

4Players 2009 – Most Humorous Trailer of the Year

Computer Games Magazine March 2005 - #9 Game of the Year

Computer Gaming World March 2005 (Issue #249) – MMORPG of the Year March 2005 (Issue #249) – Best Character Creation of the Year

GameSpy 2004 – #8 PC Game of the Year 2004 – Best Use of Spandex of the Year (PC) (for its character creation system) 2011 – #5 Top Superhero PC Game (together with City of Villains)



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City of Heroes (Windows) on Apr 30, 2004 aerynsun (125) added(Windows) on Apr 30, 2004

is the first Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) that lets you step into the pages of a comic book. Set in the 3D world of Paragon City, USA, you become a Super Hero spending your days fighting evil doers, assisting other heroes, forming Super Groups (complete with their very own Team costume), and mentoring Sidekicks. You are able to choose your Origin story and your Archetype, or style of play. There are hundreds of powers for a player to choose from, including learning to fly like Superman or run like the Flash. This is a online game and requires both internet access and a monthly fee.appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.Asis centered around superheroes, some players have set up a living memorial at the Virtue server upon learning of the passing away of Christopher 'Superman' Reeve at October 10, 2004.A subscription to the game also, as of 2005, gets you a subscription to a real, actual monthly comic book based on the game, and featuring prominent NPCs from the game as main characters. The game's comic book sometimes features actual players' characters.On top of a collectible card game, numerous comic books and a pen-and-paper RPG, CDS published two novels set in theuniverse:(2005), by Robert Weinberg; and(2006), by Robin D. Laws . (A third,, was written by Shane Hensley and due for 2006 publication, but never released.)Cryptic Studios originally refused to release the game with anything harsher than an E rating. This, obviously, did not happen, as the game is rated T.Though there is technically not an official Role Playing (RP) server, the Virtue server has been the "unofficial RP Server" since the game was originally launched.In July 2008 NCsoft announced the complete merger of itsand City of Villains titles into one game universe. Current subscribers who only had one of the titles received access to the features of both games, and new sales grant access to both.