Sounds like a fair comparison to me.

CO has a lot going for it. The major places I favor CO is in their character creator (including stances -- friggin' awesome!) and new travel powers (swinging FTW), yet CoH still feels more like you're immersed in a world instead of playing a console game.

CoH did themselves a huge favor with the way they handled power customization this past update. Two colors, multiple palettes, and some limited options for different animations. Not only did it blow CO's power customization out of the water, but it also left CoH with a lot of options for future updates and expansions.

Knowing that power customization was possible (in an update, no less) thanks to the the influx of money that came when NCSoft bought the property, it leaves me with high hopes for the actual new expansion next year, "Going Rogue." And we should learn more about that later this month, at HeroCon. If anything is going to keep CoH competitive for its next five years, it will come out of this expansion.