Hero Creation basics:

• (a) a super power
  (b) the source of that power
  (c) a movement mode
  (d) an initial ability (you unlock more as you level up)

For Example

• Green Lantern
  (a) Light
  (b) Ring
  (c) Flight
  (d) Strong Will Power
  
  The Flash
  (a) Electricity
  (b) Hands and Feet
  (c) Speed
  (d) Fast Metabolism

The game controls much like most third-person action titles, with standard light and heavy (charge-sensitive) attacks, a jump action and an interact button (notably, used to pick up cars). Super moves are mapped to the same four face buttons (when using the PS3 gamepad; a keyboard and mouse will be compatible with the console version, too) and are activated using L2 and R2 toggles. In total, up to eight super moves are easily accessible at any given time. During a preview someone created a guy with two ice pistols and he could fire ice balls and freezing rays at opponents, melee them with blocks of ice, or conveniently freeze them inside larger blocks, for example. A simple targeting mode (accessed by holding R1) locks the game camera onto an opponent for focused attacks.

It seems that most, if not all characters will be able to access and do battle in the high reaches of the city, as speedsters can race against gravity, acrobats can continuously jump and grapple up buildings, and those blessed with flight (Almighty)... well, just fly.

Shot 2 looks like Spidey & DareDevil on roids.


Good Info.

Is the envoironment destructable?


~Goodz~

very cool

I'm more of a Marvel guy, so I'm not sure if she's a hero or created, but if she's that latter then.


Throw some glasses, an overbite, a squeeky voice and some questionable acne on her and I believe we have Mega-Muff here.


The dual ratchets!


Flameside the Boy Blunder


Aye Good, is it Mediocre Man or Capt. Savahoe, which one is it?








BARRY BONDS!!

http://www.blogcdn.com/news.bigdownload.com/media/2008/07/dcuniveredc_scr_icn_bane_0001july24.jpg

Walking out of BALCO.


On that speed.


It looks like dude in the middle has ring power like GL.


Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake and Dick Grayson!!!


Mr. J.!!


It looks like Supes is on that Michael Phelps!


Big Nasty Deluxe!!!

• So there will be expansion packs, that's a forgone conclusion with this being an MMO.

• Right now they're grappling over implementing cross-platform play, meaning us PS3'ers being able to play against the PC guys!!!

I don't know if I like this bit of newe here, per MTV Multiplayer...

Quote:

When I spoke with Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley last year, I asked if the company had any plans to make their MMOs more appealing to female players. He said, “We are going out of our way in ‘DC’ because we saw that women were really the largest part of the audience for ‘The Dark Knight‘ [movie].” Certainly the publicity and the widespread acclaim surrounding the latest Batman film couldn’t hurt, but creative director Jens Andersen and senior producer Wes Yanagi told me some specifics of how their game will appeal to the ladies.

I figured these guys were smart enough to know that most women are stupid and went to the movie JUST to see Heath Ledger without the Joker makeup! And THESE are the guys that're are in charge on a multi-million dollar operation over there.

Quote:

MTV Multiplayer: A few months ago, I spoke with John Smedly and he said that “DC Universe Online” is trying to be more female-friendly. Can you elaborate on that? Creative Director Jens Andersen: Well, we definitely want to make sure that people can participate in the action. Obviously, it’s a comic book game, right? So there’s a lot of punching and stuff like that. A lot of my friends play with their significant other or spouse, and they usually like to play the stuff that’s not so up-front combat-wise; they like to do the healing, the support, the buffing, and that sort of group management. So we made sure that we tried to make that more than just watching people’s health bars on the side of the screen. It wasn’t just playing the interface; it was actually still just playing the game. So our concepts for having the support people involved are very different from what other MMOs have. And also, we don’t have death in the game; we just have knock-outs so when you do “die,” you can get right back up again and into the fight. So there’s less critical failure points for people who are more casual and aren’t necessarily as into a hardcore of an experience. It’s a lot more forgiving in a lot of ways. And it’s not a necessarily a male-female thing so to speak, but it’s just what I’ve noticed when it comes to what characters females tend to gravitate to gameplay-wise as opposed to men. Wonder Woman is in our game; she’s one of the most recognizable female characters in the world. So the appeal that we have as far as just female presence in the [intellectual property] is very large. The amount of customization that you get to do — we’re taking a lot of care in terms of like what types of characters and archetypes that women gravitate to when they play — have the cute character, we have the motherly character, we have the sexy character — all the different kind of traits you can kind of choose from and can identify with.

I thought no one cared what women do outside the sack or kitchen but women. We don't want forgiving, we want extreme brutal violence, gratuitous female nudity and explicit offensive language!! If you want casual go play Soduku on your pink DS!

Quote:

MTV Multiplayer: Have you had a lot of women try the game? Andersen: We actually have a lot of female team members, but certainly, they’re outnumbered by the males on the team for sure. And since we’re not in the open beta or anything like that, it’s typically been skewed towards men but we do let people play our game at all the conventions that we’ve gone to. I would say that the response is both good from men and women that have played the game. And we’re also live within the company, so there are a lot of females in the San Diego office that have played the game, too. and I think that they’ve responded to it very well.

Wait, they have women on their team, that AREN'T there to make sandwiches and give lapdances??! I thought Clinton and Palin taught us that giving women power is like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in a six-shooter!!

Quote:

MTV Multiplayer: Do you find it challenging making a game that’s aimed at hardcore MMO gamers and the more casual gamer who’s just a big DC fan? Andersen: This game is about the DC universe, bu it’s not just about the DC universe fans. We’re not making specifically for that one gorup. We’re making it for everybody including that group. So we have to inlcude a lot of mainstream concepts. Like what’s the ideal version of Batman, right? It’s Bruce Wayne as Batman. If they’re writing a story in the comics where Batman’s back has been broken and it’s actually this other guy playing Batman right now — several people have actually played Batman — it wouldn’t be Harvey Dent as Batman. That doesn’t make sense [for this game]. What we’re trying to do is make a game that is for the action gamer and the MMO gamer. there’s a market there already, and what we want to do is bring a new take to the space. We want to make people that like playing that long-term game, we want them to not play the same game only with capes. Senior producer Wes Yanagi: I think your question is also about function or usability as opposed to the design. Maybe “World of Warcraft” would be the best example — people say it’s easily accessible, right? And I think it’s really because their usablilty at the early stages was really well done. If you took someone’s “WoW” character at level 70 — even if they didn’t use any interface add-ons and if it was just their default interface — you’d be overwhelmed because there’d be too many options. But what [Blizzard] did, they did a good job at gradually teaching you how to become an expert at that game. And I think that a lot of other games, especially MMOs, don’t do that very well. Andersen: You do need to teach people how to play your game early on. Product knowledge is really important — to know what’s great and not great. But we’re such a differet game fundametally [from "WoW"], like how you play moment-to-moment is completely different, how you team up with a player or tactically fight against another player because of the physics nature of our game, how you target things is completely different because we’re not pointer-driven. So there are certain things that we can’t take from them. But we can say overall, “Hey they did a wonderful job in ramping players up on how to play their game.” We should that. But how we do it is dependent on our game.

Mmmm, if you know how to play games you'll figure it out within a few hours, it looks like they're trying to make Lifetime the Game rather than a proper DC online! Thanks a lot for ruining Sony's first MMO Muffy!!

Ok... first of all... do you talk to your girl with that mouth??? or momma???

LOL 2nd of all.. this is DUMB. Personally I want to blow things up. I want things to die. If its not bloody then its not cool. Why do they feel the need to dumb things down for girls?? Most of the time... we're smarter. Why do they need to shield girls from gore... most of the time... boys are the woosies...

Almighty.... this doesn't have Muff written anywhere on it.

that's right damn it! LOL... that pic reminds me that the Matrix Trilogy on Blu-Ray ROCKS!!!!

This is a great indicator of what you'll be able to do with your hero.

Things have been a lil dry around this thread.

is there a release date scheduled for this?

Good stuff....

One of the developers said they're still pre alpha...so there's no ship date....smh. Probably 3rd or 4thQ.

~Goodz~

Some of those videos are from summer, around E3, they haven't dropped much new info as of late. I think they're in alpha now. They have developer videos in the Euro store that are not in the US or the Japanese store. You gotta have all accounts to get all PSN's content. I'll watch them again to see what stage they're at.