DCU Online: Beatdowns for all!

[krogothwolf]

It's an MMO. But you can do all missions within the world solo, granted there are other people doing them as well, but spawn rates and the fact if you do even the slightest bit of damage to a mob, you get the exact same stuff the guy who killed em gets makes the missions quick enough you don't need to spawn camp, they have Solo instances that follow along with the quests Involves usually assisting or helping a DC Hero or Villain.

Alerts that you join are Groups, then there are the raids which is for 8 people.

The cool part is that they have "Duos" so for those who don't like RAIDing but have a buddy they play with can do those for cool gear as opposed to RAIDs only. Still need to do RAIDS to get the best of the best stuff, but the Duo stuff isn't half bad.

Right now, I find it addicting and fun. Combat's fun enough that I don't get bored with it. I find it long term for me, I played the Beta long enough and didn't get bored with it at all. Usually an MMO bores me withing 3 to 4 months, going on 5 months including Beta time, so it's better then my average so far.

Character creation is fun, don't have many costumes to chose from at the start, but gear drops unlock costume items as you go along so you can get some pretty cool costumes out there.

Combat styles and powers are simplistic. Everyone has a damage role and then another role based on the power they chose. Since 30 is max level, if you like making tons of new characters and experimenting with power and weapon combination, it's pretty cool that way.

Right now money is easy to get and seems pointless. I think the whole point of them game is to get to 30 and start duoing and raiding, but the Duo option is what reeled me in.

They may or may not in the future make a joint server for PS3 and PC owners, but I dunno about that. There are a lot of people wanting them to do that. The game seemed insanely popular at launch as every place was sold out, my brother visited 5 gamestops, 3 future shops and 2 best buys before getting the game and all the best buy had left was the CE.