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Slideshow: Wanted: Heroes to Rescue City

Admit it, you like the thought of prancing around in a unitard. Here's your chance. In , an online role-playing game with several nice touches, you create a superhero alter ego and kick alien butt. By Scott Steinberg.
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In City of Heroes, players soar to the rescue as superhero alter egos. Like other role-playing games, players can choose to become one of five character archetypes, which makes their in-game characters adept at offense or defense or a combination of both.Courtesy of NCSoft

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The early forays against low-level adversaries are tedious, but once you progress to confronting gifted villains, skirmishes become explosive.Courtesy of NCSoft

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You can choose to fight evil alone, or you can join a gang of good guys. As humiliating as it might be, you could become a sidekick apprentice to characters with more developed skills.Courtesy of NCSoft