Make a Hero, Minus the City

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Ever wished you could just fool around with the City of Heroes character creation utility when it strikes your fancy? It's got to be the most robust character design tool available in the front end of a commercial game, and I know people who actually maintain City of Heroes subscriptions primarily so they're able to make characters again and again. Well, with the launch of City of Heroes in Asia (over there it's called "City of Hero"), NCsoft has made the creation utility from Cryptic Studios' MMO available for free.
More importantly, with the release comes a nifty promo that pretty much everyone has been screaming for since the game first launched in the US more than a year ago. The game's asskickoriffic character editor is up as a free download. Not only does it include all of the game's hundreds of costume options, but auras and capes are available for screwing around with from the start, which is spiff if you want to see how they're going to look on your guy before going to all the trouble of getting him to level 30.

The catch is that it's all in Korean. This isn't really a problem with the installer, which is standard fare for those familiar with setting up Windows software, but it can be a bit of an inconvenience in the utility itself. That said, I managed to grope through the process by fiddling with sliders and drop down boxes until I figured out what everything did.

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