DC Universe Online is a new MMO that is coming out in January of 2011. DCUO is not something that I cared or even knew about until recently. Then I found a series that showed DCUO’s Beta game play. To my extreme surprise DCUO’s game play looked like something I could get into and after trying WoW, City of Heroes, and Guild Wars I had given up on finding a MMO that looked even remotely like something I would like. DCUO has a new take on the MMO formula that looks more fun and interesting that any other MMO that I have ever seen. The combat looks like a lot more fun than just punching the 1 through 9 buttons on my keyboard in the right order the way every other MMO does combat. DCUO also seems to have a sense of style and personality that I always found absent in other MMOs. Not to mention that the intro cinematic is one of the best game intros I have ever seen. Ever. This MMO also plays on the PC and the PS3 and it looks like it would actually work well on a PS3. To my knowledge this the first MMO that would work well on a console. If it actually works well, of course. But enough of me going on and on about my impressions of watching some DCUO game play on YouTube. Go watch TotalHalibut, the Cynical Brit’s series on the DCUO beta yourself and make up your own mind.
The super sweet intro cinematic : Make sure to bump the resolution up to 1080p because the clip does not seem to play in any other resolution.
The rest of the series should be to the right of the video but if you can’t find them for some reason here are some of the links.
I’m not even allowing myself to consider DCUO. I have too many mmos and 360 games already. One of my friends got CoH last week during post holiday sales so I’ve got 60 days of time on that. By then I hope SW:TOR will be out….
But it really does look like something newish in mmos….