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MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh attended the recent SOE Fan Faire in Las Vegas. While there, she got some hands-on time with DC Universe Online. Today, she shares her impressions of the game.

The Panel at the SoE FanFaire was titled "Something to do with Capes?" No prizes for guessing what this one was about. Creative Director Jens Andersen, Senior Producer Wes Yamasagi and Studio Creative Director Chris Cao were on hand to talk about DC Universe Online in this packed room at the SoE FanFaire in Las Vegas.

"Rule or Save the World", is the motto of DC Universe Online and players are invited to walk into the DC Universe as a Super Hero and align themselves with the heroes or as a Super Villain, aligning themselves with the villains of the DC Comics Universe. Billed as an action MMOG, there's no auto-attack, no waiting for timers or sitting around waiting for bars to fill. The death mechanic is instant re-spawn with all of your health and power replenished. No potion clicking, graveyards, tombstones or corpses to recover. No running back to your spandex covered body and trying to drag it out of range of the mob camping it, begging someone for a teleport.

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good to hear from someone not actually on the dev team - sounds promising. This review really makes me want to try it out.

Liked CYA-repetition of "This is only in Alpha stage."

I'm very tempted to go out and buy that PS3. wonder if there'll be another price drop before this launches.

It looks interesting but thats all I can say right.  I don't know if I will like the first person shooter aspect of it or not.  I will try it though.

Originally posted by themilton

good to hear from someone not actually on the dev team - sounds promising. This review really makes me want to try it out.

Liked CYA-repetition of "This is only in Alpha stage."

 

I'm very tempted to go out and buy that PS3. wonder if there'll be another price drop before this launches.

  There was already a price drop on the 80mb to $399.00 .  The PS3 has lost over 3 billion dollars , I doubt that you will see another price drop. They are going to need the DC heroes to save them.

I think I'll be passing on this one.

I've heard alot of good reviews, blogs, and podcasts of this game so far. I thought this would be a repeat of COH but from the sounds of it, its alot different and the ability to interact with the enviroment sounds interesting to say the least.

lol they put Jestor Rodo in the game.

i am a little woried about on ly getting xp from mission completion,thats one of the things i didnt like about DDO grind is grind, and switching the mob grind to quest grin really doesnt help , as a matter of fact mission grinda can be more tedious,sence the fast missions give you less xp and longer harder misions give you more xp, so you have to group to get the extra xp,soooo when the game you love starts to die, your just SOL,this of course is just a thought and it may not actually hapen with this game, but thats what could hapen if its notdone to ensure that you can solo when no one else is available or you just dont feal like grouping

Originally posted by Vanive

lol they put Jestor Rodo in the game.

 I offered to play as a guest villain to SOE for pay but I have not heard a word from SOE. You would think that they would jump all over that. But then again I would probably find a way to be invincible and you know that the Devs would just love to once again game ban for all time for that infraction.