City of Heroes - Prima Guide

Product Description
A Heroic Compendium
·Complete villain stats
·Zone maps with villian locations
·Locations for all Shops and Trainers
·Complete stats for Powers, Enhancements and Inspirations
·Character development strategies
·Winning tactics for missions and teams



Prima's relationship with game companies often allows them great access to the innards of game development during alpha and beta testing, which usually leads to some useful insights in their guides. Unfortunately, that's not the case here. While the combat section of this guide is fairly well detailed, the meat of the game is in character development where this book fails with poor research and outright errors.

The good news is that there's good use to this book if you're wandering around Paragon City, the City of Heroes base. Creature factions are very well described, with useful tidbits on how to fight them. For instance, two melee fighters shouldn't simultaneously attack a Circle of Thorn (COT) mage as the mage will self destruct, likely killing both fighters. It's hard to tell this simply by playing the game. Geography and combat tricks are also well described.