Alright. So, I think I may have been lying.

Lying, when I said I probably wouldn't defect to City of Villains, upon its release, and continue the grinding of my two up and coming heroes.

Well ..

Fuck that! City of Villains is the shit. My Beta finished the other night, and I was able to dedicate about three hours to it, last night. The game's fucking great.

The character creation? Christ. It is insanely vast. I thought City of Heroes was above par in regards to that, and if such still holds true, than City of Villains is chillin' somewhere on Mount Olympus for its Godliness.

The addition of new villain entities, plus the Superhero Faction has a certain division there in the starting area, and it was so refreshing to run up on a group of three or four of them and simply wail on them.

The archetypes .. I cannot get too in depth with those, as I have only tried two of them. However, I am sure these two will undoubtably the dominantly played archetypes -- The savage Brute, and the devious Mastermind.

The Brute .. as implies is an offensive juggernaut. Nothing short of the Juggernaut of X-Men either. It has a built in auto-ability that as the Brute does damage and continuously does inflict damage on others, the standard amount will increase. This is shown by a gauge beneath your health and endurance (energy to do moves, etc.). With this "rage" built up, you can do up to 400% more damage, taking out higher level minions and bosses in single strikes! I was loving this!

The Mastermind. Man, there are going to be so many of these running around. Their primary ability is to summon. As I explained in an earlier post, you can summon Ninja, for those desiring to create a Naruto character or something conceptually based from it, as they have numerous forehead protectors. In any manner, in addition to summoning Ninja .. they can summon soldiers (Mercenaries), the dead (Necromancy), and even robot minions, which is definitely the coolest. The lower tier bots are like micro transformers. They fold and expand, complete with Decepticon-like sound effects.

This game is great. I honestly cannot say too much more other than that. I'll post some screens as I get more time to post, as this was my main stop.