DCU Online: Beatdowns for all!

[krogothwolf]

Woooh

I got DCU Online, for the PS3, and it's actually incredibly fun. Combat is enjoyable and fairly fast paced. Missions are sort of the same thing of any MMO, Beat the hell out of each other till you killed the enemies or got the items. Game is fairly open world, Loading screens only for Instances and between the 3 main area's you'll be in. Watchtower, Gotham or Metropolis.

Sad that Wonder Woman has no city to call her own, could have done something there then toss her in Metropolis to, but it's not that big of a downer. A hero has a mentor and the mentor affects story oriented missions and such, which you can only get if you have that mentor, but others can help you do the missions and instances.

The game has an interesting concept were you don't really kill steal or anything. You can help kill a mob and still get the items from it as it splits between all those who did damage to them. It's a good thing for the missions that are in the world maps as those can be insane clusterfucks of totally beatdowns. They pretty much have hero missions right on top of villain missions making the missions part doing it and part PvP(if you're on a PvP world or want PvP.) The missions are quick and fun, and the added PvP beatdownage adds to the whole hilarity of it all. Had a mission were it turned into pretty much a 10 vs 10 battle and was actually loads of fun, even though it made the mission take longer, it had a great feel to the whole Hero vs Villain thing the game is going for.

Boss fights are interesting, could be better though. Game also has a good chunk of Solo and Group things to do. You can go on Alerts were you group up with 3 other heroes(or go in one with a predetermined group) and fight harder mobs and bosses. Only problem with that is, people tend to all go into it as the Damage role instead of Healer, Controller or Tank roles. Makes it harder but it's livable.

Game is incredibly fun, fat paced and has an easy learning curve. The interface can use some work, but it's actually well done for a Controller based game on the Console. Max level is 30 you upgrade your guy by spending power points and skill points. You get more Skill points as you do "feats"(aka Achievements) which is pretty cool feature.

Anyone else get this game?