2004 certainly hasn’t been without its ups and downs, but it has brought us all some truly excellent games, a fact celebrated by The Associated Press in its round-up of the best and worst releases of the year, where City of Heroes comes a close second to the mighty Half-Life 2:

Finally, a maker of massively multiplayer online games got it right. “City of Heroes” tossed the dungeons and dragons in favor of superhero tights. It also dispatched with many of the genre’s grueling “leveling up” aspects and let gamers do what they really want: band together with dozens of others to battle villains.

The story has been picked up by several major news networks in America, including ABC News - you can read the whole article here.