If you haven't used a 14 day free trial on an existing account or if you create a new account, you can get 14 days free play: http://www.mmorpg.com/freetrials/cohissue9_trial.cfm

Had a quick couple of hours running round in CoH and CoV. One thing that springs to mind is that they haven't changed the combat graphics/sounds at all since I last played. When you do a certain attack, it plays exactly the same animation and sound every time. It certainly gets on your tits if you only have 2 attacks. Maybe it's that way so that people who don't have to look at their keyboard to do their attacks can tell which one they've just performed by the animation and set up chains (if there are any) accordingly).

Thanks Lee, downloading it now to have a dabble!

Done any mayhem missions? Those were the only fun things with the last patch I played (patch 7?).

nope. wouldn't know where to find them. I have my original lev17 char but have started again. Am a measly level 6.

it was shit first time around (once you'd generated a character)

Engine looks even more dated now than it did on release and it was PRETTY FUCKING DATED then

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Yep. Cathy has already said it's a bit linear. Which sums it up nicely. Good for a quick bit of beat em up when you have no time and need something to get in to quickly. Unlike Eve, which I'm cancelling my subs for

Mayhem missions are the new bank missions. IE, do 5 regular paper mission and you'll get to do a mayhem mish. Fun the first few times, though.