As part of a year-end review at Eurogamer of all games, across all platforms, City of Villains busted into the Top 10 with high praise - after receiving a 9/10 review earlier this year, naturally.

Jim Rossignol summed up the Arachnos experience by saying City of Villains is “funny, smart, beautiful and remarkably compulsive”, and Kieron Gillen, reviewer for City of Villains, had this to say in his defence:

...we all love Cryptic’s City games with a slightly scary passionate intensity. You start making a list of its positive qualities, and you end up with a list of where almost everyone else is going wrong with the MMO in 2005.

Perhaps Eurogamer will be spared Lord Recluse’s wrath in 2006.