Best mission in 28 levels of City Of Heroes: kill a load of voodoo zombies. But! They’re much higher level than you. But! You get a Holy Shotgun and seventy-five Holy Shells. Completely awesome. I killed eight zombies with one shot at one point.

I should add that I am, now, thoroughly enjoying Villains because of our Super Group. Never really been in a decent guild before.

Also, it’d be nice if they’d done something about rewards. If, as a magic Stalker, I’m tasked with stealing a particular Artifact Of Terrible Power, I’m going to want to use that artifact at some point. Temporary power? Yes sir! Even if it reduces the xp yield, I’d rather have the opportunity to see my nefarious schemes come to some sort of fruition as I unleash the Eye of Horus on an unsuspecting island community.

I wasn’t aware the newspaper missions weren’t in heroes, because it seemed like just another feature badly translated. The newspaper would have been a brilliant way to let you feel like your missions were your ideas, your evil schemes. You’d see something like “Enormous diamond exhibit opening in museum”, and you could go “Aha” I’ll steal them.” Although the game is still giving you the mission, the possibility for the illusion is there.

And so many of the missions are, as you say, serving society. You’re doing hero’s work, but you’re not allowed to feel heroic for it.

The use of fake money when I’m actually robbing banks and being paid for missions also seems slightly silly.

It does all seem like it would work better if I was a hero. I’m playing it because a new updated version of Heroes seemed like a good excuse to try it, and reviews had led me to believe it was improved over the original. I’m still playing because the basics are still fun, even if the villainous theme doesn’t quite work.