Are you playing DCUO?Follow

The Justice League rules over Earth in the DC universe. Any thought otherwise gets you a one way trip into a DC re-education camp.

That's not really the case though. You're not doing quest for the hero but with the hero.
More like sgt. X tells you that villain Z and his tugs have taken over a part of the city and that hero Y needs help with this. You go there, beat the tugs, find hero Y and kick villain Z's *** with him.

Not sure if I'm explaining this well but the set-up is a lot better than just Superman asking you the kill 5 boars for no apparent reason. So far I'm really liking the game and I've never been a big comic book fans.

After you beat certain arcs (Thus far I've beaten Scarecrow, Bane, Joker, Harley Quinn, Teen Titans, Giganta/Wonder Girl, Some Bee Chick, & Dr. Psyco) you're given motion-comic-esque cut scenes with art by Jim Lee &, generally, very good quality voice acting (Most of the people from WB animation who've done Superman/Batman/Joker/Luther et. al are all doing voices in DCU).

Jim Lee's art can make even throw away villians like Dr. Psyco somewhat cool.

Superman asks you to do fight the menial thugs, then shows up & helps you take down the boss.

Although, to be fair, the only time Supes has shown up for me was at the end of the tutorial. He's talked to me via the watchtower a couple of times, but I largely ignored him. Batman's my mentor.



It is.

You could spread your points into different weapon tree but you can only use the skill if you have the weapon type equipped. So you can't use martial arts simultaneously with brawler since they use different weapon and you'll only get access to the combos related to your equipped weapon.

Isn't that Marvel? X-Men and all that stuff?

Yes, he was part of my list of things I don't like about Marvel. Tempting. Need to figure out how to incorporate a healing factor and psychosis based telepathy immunity, and I could probably swing that.

I'm totally playing as Casper.

Beta is over. The game is out now. Maybe in a few months they'll offer a trial, but I think the only way you could play now is to actually buy it.

Played City of Heroes and Champions Online - both fun but didn't hold my interest for long (even though I do have the lifetime thing for CO). While currently getting my fantasy fix with LOTRO (again lifetime thing), I picked up DCUO for the pc. While the UI isn't perfect, I've been having a blast playing both heroes and villains. I enjoyed Marvel more than DC as a kid, but DC comics have become more interesting to me. It helps to be a fan of the various animated series, too.

Graphically, DCUO is beautiful and the art style quite immersive, like WoW's. The gameplay is just great fun. I've made 2 heroes and a villain so far (all below level 10). Sure, some things are done better in CoH and CO. Still, I dig the DC material so it's all good so far.

I don't know how long I'll stick with it but I do know it's fun enough that i lose track of time on work nights - good for enjoying the game, bad for not getting enough sleep. Like any decent MMO, there will be fixes for the worst problems at some point.