DC Universe Online Standard Edition
DC Universe Online Standard Edition
- DCUO is an action-focused hero and villain game in a fully realized 3D DC Universe created in the artistic vision of legendary comic book artist Jim Lee and DC Comic’s WildStorm Productions
- DCUO uses a state-of-the-art physics engine that turns the world into your weapon
- Extreme customization allows players to create their own custom hero or villain
- Players will embark on story-driven adventures penned by Geoff Johns and other famous DC writers while the game world’s depth will span the entire DC Universe
- DCUO game-play is being optimized for the PC and the Sony PlayStation 3 Computer Entertainment System
DC Universe Online brings high-energy action to the forefront with a combat system designed to deliver a fast-paced action experience with the extraordinary powers of DC Super Heroes and Villains at your disposal. DCUO offers a dramatic online setting where players battle with or against their favorite DC Super Heroes and Villains including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Joker. For the very first time, players and fans will be able to enter this fabled world as an active force for good or evil. The action and drama will play out in such well-known locations such as Gotham City and Metropolis.
Enter the world of your favorite DC Comics’ superheroes and villains in DC Universe Online. Get ready to experience the high-energy action that encapsulates this fabled world, and become engrossed in thrilling battles with or against famed heroes and villains, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and The Joker.
Synopsis
We join our hero perched atop a granite gargoyle high above the city of Gotham. His eyes squint as he monitors the streets below, searching for crooked criminal conduct. From afar, he hears the alarm from Gotham National Bank and he dives from the darkness into the illumination of the streets. He soars through the canyon of skyscrapers, hearing the buzz of the citizens below that he has chosen to protect. He sees the bank is only a block away — just then a burst of red passes him to join in the fray. As the two heroes approach the crime scene, they hear the creepy cackling of The Joker. This will not be a run-of-the-mill fight for justice, but then again — what is, in the DC Universe?
Key Features:
- Battle with or against your favorite DC Comics heroes and villains, including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and The Joker
- Live out the action and drama in detailed, well-known locations such as Gotham City and Metropolis
- Experience the intensity of the DC Universe in a 3D art style designed by legendary comic book artist Jim Lee
- Take on story-driven adventures created by DC writers
- Extreme customization lets you construct your own hero or villain
- Use the environment to your advantage with the state-of-the-art physics engine that turns the world into your weapon
- 30-day subscription included; Internet connection and additional recurring subscription fees are required to play
Immerse yourself in the intensity that is played out in a carefully detailed 3D world that spans the entire DC Universe with locations such as Gotham City and Metropolis. Create your own custom hero or villain and then embark on story-driven adventures that have been written by famous DC writers. Will you choose to don the cape and mask to fight for good — or are your intentions more sinister?
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DC Universe Online (Sony Playstation 3, 2011)
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Honest review after maxing out two characters.,
Honestly can’t remember being as excited about a game since Mass Effect 2. I’ve a huge fan of MMORPGs. I bought this game the day of it’s release. After installing it I began what would be the best week of January. The game was amazing to say the least…. for the first two weeks. I’ll go into specific detail now.
Character Creation – I’ve read comments stating that it isn’t all that great but honestly it’s a lot of fun to edit your character’s appearance. I spent 2 hours alone just on trying different combinations of clothing, colors and accessories. As for the powers, you have six trees to choose from: fire, ice, nature, gadgets, mental and magic. It’s very limited but the powers unlocked for each one are very useful for just about any situation. Each one focuses on a specific role; fire and ice are defense, mental and gadgets are control and magic and nature are healing. All classes can enter into a damage mode so there’s no need for damage dealers. Then you choose what type of weapon you want to fight with, this will be your main damage dealer so choose wisely. You have a few good selections but none that will blow your mind. Melee weapons like the staff, one handed, two handed, brawling, martial arts and the bow(yes the bow is melee). Ranged you get hand blasters, rifle and dual pistols. I might be forgetting a weapon but I doubt it. You can choose one of three mentors, who they are depend on whether you’re a villain or a hero. The reality is that it doesn’t really have a huge difference in the game, it only makes a difference in the armor you get to unlock and the first few missions. Body type is very limited as there are only three, a child, normal buffed up human and a hulking huge beast of a man. After that, you choose a name and you’re good to go.
Story – Story is pretty interesting in the beginning, after that it’s nothing special. Your mentor has a small effect on your first few quests but after that you’re basically doing the same thing every other hero is doing. I never felt like I was doing anything interesting, no immersion from the quests. All the quest lines follow the exact same path; do three quests then do an instance. Which is fine but then once you get to the instance, more often than not you’re rescuing the main heroes. Well, not the main heroes as Wonder woman, Superman and Batman only make about two to three appearances in the entire game and they are always getting beat down. Story feels weak, you jump around way too much and it feels way too random. Help Superman with Braniac, help Batman with the Joker, then go help Wonder woman with Shazaam, there’s no structure/order aside from having to rescue these powerful experienced heroes in most missions.
PvP – PvP experience depends on where you play. If you’re on a PvP server then you had better be a hardcore PvP lover as you’ll constantly get killed by max level player enemies. Mind you, it’s a starting area and everyone there is about level 5-7 and you get nothing for killing other players as a prize so it’s just for grieving purposes. If you’re OK with that then you’ll be fine. I felt like there should have been more rewards for killing other players. There are little missions you can take that tell you to kill an enemy player but they aren’t anything special. I got more from doing races than doing those missions. In a PvE server, you can flag yourself for PvP and just go about your business until you run into an enemy player that’s also flagged which to me was much better because you did it when you were ready and you weren’t harassed by players that were board.
PvP & Instances – I seperated this because this is another beast altogether. Instances in general are an enigma to me as after two weeks of playing I haven’t done more than two. I queued myself on a Thursday and on a Saturday was still waiting to get in. Once I finally got in I was asked to leave because the players there were waiting for someone else. Either that or I’d be loaded into an instance that was already started and was abandoned by the original team because they got wiped out. No idea why I’d get loaded into an instance that’s already started. The more balanced of the instances are the duos in which you go play with someone you’re grouped with. Raids on the other hand, are a lot more complicated. If you don’t have the proper team you’re going to feel a lot of pain and frustration and by the right team I mean 2 of each class. Sure you don’t have to but then you’re going to experience headaches which suck the fun out of the game.
Chat System & Social aspect – JEEZUS! Just JEEZUS…. Never seen such a horrible chat system in all my 11 years of gaming in MMORPGs. To say that it’s broken is an understatement. After all this time league chat (the chat channel for your “guild” which is called a league in DCUO) is still broken,…
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|It’s got some good aspects, but also quite a few weaknesses,
Being a comic book fan and a regular player of “City of Heroes” (a different PC-based online multiplayer role playing game), I couldn’t resist getting “DC Universe Online” and fighting alongside the iconic superheroes I grew up reading. Who wouldn’t want to make their own superhero and fight alongside Superman or Batman? There’s fun to be had in the game, that’s certain, and there’s quite a few good aspects to the game, but there’s also quite a few weaknesses in the game… things you expect to find in a PC-based game but are absent here.
The storyline is that at one point in the near future in the DC Universe, Lex Luthor staged a massive battle against the greatest heroes, enlisting other supervillains to help him, and he actually won. His victory was short-lived because as soon as the heroes fell, Brainiac invaded earth and took it over. Brainiac had been using nano technology in the form of small devices that spread across the earth gradually stealing superpowers from people. With Earth subjugated now, Lex collected these device from Brainiac’s ship and went back in time to just before his battle against Earth’s heroes to warn them of what the future holds. He also released all of these nanobots so that they went around imbuing people everywhere with the stolen superpowers, powering up thousands of people everywhere so we could be prepared to fight Brainiac. This is where you come in. You are one of those people and you now have superpowers that can be used for good or evil, but will ultimately be used to help defeat Brainiac.
You can create a character for yourself and choose several different aspects of how you appear and what your powers are. You can fall into one of a few role. You can be a tank and deal damage and get enemies to focus on you instead of more fragile teammates; you can be a controller and help buff your teammates or weaken the enemies; or you can be healer and restore health and power to your team. There are preset power groups you can choose from, and each group is broken down into two subgroups. For example, Sorcery gives you access to the Destiny group with powers that directly curse enemies or heal teammates, and it gives access to Summoning where you can summon creatures to assist you or barriers to protect you.
Along with the power group, you can choose a fighting style. You can be a martial artist or gunslinger or swordsman or staff weilder, for instance. Once your fighting style and power choices are made, you can also choose what superpower you have for traveling around the city. You can choose flight, superspeed, or acrobatics. Flying is pretty self-explanatory. Superspeed lets you move like the Flash, quickly covering ground and running up the sides of buildings. Agility lets you move fast and scale any surface, and as you drop from heights, you can sort of glide, covering larger distances more quickly.
Once your powers are selected, you choose your appearance and do have quite a few choices in your costume, and then you begin on Brainiac’s ship where you have to escape. That escape serves as the tutorial. Once complete, you’re in Metropolis or Gotham (depending upon which mentor you chose when you created your character), and Oracle (a DC character) talks to you via radio and guides you on missions.
The good: The game world is beautiful. It’s wonderfully designed and expansive. Missions are either within buildings, or outdoors in key sections of the city, and the city seems like the DC Universe brought to life. Voice acting is good, animations are good, and the game plays like an action game more than an MMO. Missions are grouped together to form little storylines, and the storylines are very reminiscent of DC stories. For example, Gorilla Grod is once again trying to take over the world by devolving people back into apes. Mission arcs are broken down into several smaller missions, and completing the entire arc gives points. With the Gorilla Grod storyline, you start out by protecting people on the beach from the gorilla scouts and then get clues from the scouts, then you head to the boardwalk to break up their devolving machines. Once that’s done, you head into the city and clean out some rooftops where they’re setting up communications arrays and more devolvers, and you eventually work your way to Gorilla Grod’s lab where you meet up with the Flash and help defeat Gorilla Grod himself. Graphical effects are good and animation is also good. What’s nice is that in this huge vibrant city, there are many areas where the signature villains are carrying out their nefarious deeds. It’s nice to have this HUGE city with hotspots spread out. It feels right. Action is fast, and it plays like an action game.
The bad: It plays like an action game. The MMO aspects are quite weak. Though you get either a skill point or power point with each level you attain, you can only have access to six powers at a time…
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|A Strong Start,
First off, let me say that I have played many MMO’s in my years (EQ, EQ2, SW, FFXI, WoW, Vanguard, CoH, Aion) many from their launch date and I must say that DCUO has a very strong start. I will try to break this down into different areas that I have played so far:
Character Creation:
What can I say about this? As would be expected with a superhero MMO, this is an extremely strong point. You can literally create any hero you want with any color combination (limited to 3 main colors or you can pick a favorite hero and have the game make a char with a similar look and feel to that hero) and equipment combo you want. There are three main “Classes” that you will pick from (Defensive, Controller, Healing) which will define you in group role. Of these classes there are 2 different types of powers you can pick from (I.E. I made a controller with mental powers, I use illusions and telekinesis as my supernatural powers). After this you will be asked to pick a weapon that you will use (there are loads! Everything from bows to staves to pistols to giant 2 handed weapons). Then you choose a travel mode (Flight, Speed, or Acrobatics) which is how you get around. Creation is strong, and you can spend a lot of time making the exact hero you want (I think I spent almost an hour)!
Combat:
There is a major stray from your typical MMO in their combat system which will be good for many and, I am sure, bad for just as many. The combat system follows a more combo/interactive style. So for example, my char, the bow wielding mental maniac shoots his bow with right mouse, can charge a shot by holding right mouse, bashes with the bow with left mouse, and has several combos revolving around this. Powers are used by your typical “Toolbar and mana/energy system” But by doing this minor change to combat DCUO has made combat much more interactive rather than a spam of “Rotations”. I think combat will be strong in this game
Graphics/Sound:
Also strong in this game, everything I have encountered so far is voice acted and voiced pretty well. Graphics are beautiful. Good to see. However, at a distance, I have seen some enemies being rather choppy. I am not sure if this is due to high player volumes on launch day or if it is a game issue. If you can run this game at max graphics you’ll be happy.
PVP:
Haven’t had a chance to try this yet, unfortunately. I do have a questline to open up arenas and there are the equivalents of battlegrounds. I also play on a PvP server but have yet to fight my first villain in world PvP!
Quests/Experience/Gear:
The quests are pretty inventive and seem to all be large questlines that progress into larger and larger events. An example is last night I was in Metropolis and there was an Ape Supervillain (sorry I am not terribly familiar with anyone who’s not a major player in DC) that was devolving citizens into apes. Superman called me for help and, of course I obliged. The first quest was to take out ape guards that were devolving citizens. I then went to take out their reinforcements and fuel supplies. Then I was asked to go re-evolve citizens. Then take out the machines allowing this to happen. Then The Flash went missing and I was asked to help(and it was bedtime). You will get your generic kill monsters quests, but they are spun into a story that makes it less mind numbing. Leveling is going pretty fast (but it is still early in the game). And gear, from what I can tell, is similar to most games with your common/good/rare items. One thing to say about gear is that the gear will change the look of your hero but you can change this to keep your ‘classic’ look or continuously upgrade your look.
Overall:
I think this has a very strong start for an MMO, however, the upcoming months will really show whether or not the game will live or die. It is hard to tell if it will become a big player on the MMO market until some time has passed, but the game did start off on the right foot if you ask me. It definitely IS a step off of the beaten path, but that will appeal to many since we have been seeing games that are practically clones of each other over and over and over.
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