First and foremost, City of Heroes is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) set in the fictitious Paragon City where costumed super beings are not only commonplace but needed to stem the tide of evil from taking over the city. Just the concept is outstanding. Now I can create a hero in any image I choose and shape them into whatever type of hero I choose for them to be. Perhaps my hero is the brooding loner with a debt to settle. Or perhaps my hero is an over-eager college student with an innate sense of honor who is exposed to an experiment gone horribly awry. But maybe my hero is a grieving psychopath bent on the destruction of organized crime by any means necessary. The possibilities appear to be endless.