VIDEO GAMES: DC Universe Online Finally Gets An Official Release Date!

I wish u could use Bats, Supes etc... or an option to choose create your own...

Can Create you're own, I'm playing the beta

since I live in the UK I have to wait 3 days after people in the US, but we all only got only a month to wait! :D

I hope It don't end up like this...

I am glad that they are coming out with this game but I have to agree with SHHH; I wish there was an option for you to create your own or be one of the traditional heroes. DC has in the past created a game where you had limited options e.g. Justice League Heroes. I personally love Comic RPG games. Hence why I wonder, when will DC produce a game similar to Ultimate Alliance without those pesky limited options.

Anyone else feel the same way?

question... if you have a ps3, do you still need to pay the fifteen bucks a month?

think I'll pass on this. Cool concept tho.

As a beta player of DCUO and a long-time player of World Of WarCraft (since closed beta, so before WoW was actually released, I was playing it) and of various other MMOs (EQ, AC, AoC, I've tried a few others too), I encourage everyone to give this game a try.

I genuinely like this game. It has a completely new approach to combat vs. your standard MMO, the 3 different movement types (flying, speed, acrobatics) are all awesome and unique, and it doesn't feel like it's trying to compete with WoW, which is the failure of so many other similar games. This game just feels like a good, fun, super-hero MMO, and currently, I feel like it's the best super-hero MMO on the market.

This game has your basic new-MMO-flaws and will be touched up and improved on over time, so don't expect to go into this game imagining it's in perfect shape. What this game does have it something I don't use lightly with MMOs: Potential. The only thing this game needs to get itself up and running is a strong community who are committed to the game.

how are you guys playing this already?? im confused.

im playing the BETA right now,n i bloody love it already

somebody answer supersteveprime already.

Beta testing. Go to DC Universe Online site and learn more. I'm not beta testing but have been invited to beta test other games.

Supersteveprime18, a beta is more or less like a really long, detailed demo. It's for people to see what the game will be like. That's all. It's usually for computer games, or games that are really long. You wouldn't launch a beta for a game like Tekken. You would launch it for something like World of Warcraft.

A beta is a test phase for the game. It gives the creators a chance to load up the servers and check for mistakes that can be fixed before the majority of people play. Also the reason you cant play as Superman, Batman, etc is because there will be thousands of people playing and who would choose the Blue Beetle over Superman? There would be thousands of Superman's running around, that is just dumb. You can create a character based on Superman. Ive been in the Beta since the beginning and it is awesome. If you are a comic fan and a game fan you need to play this game. 14 bucks a month is nothing considering the replay value of this game.

@ Supersteve

Playstation plus users can download the beta. I think its on pc too, but idk for sure

The Beta is pretty much a huge demo of the game. We wont have the characters that we have made on the beta though. when the game comes out we will have to start fresh too

thanks guys for explaining it all to me.

@Tittie
I have talked to Chris Cao at SOE Fan Faire about that. Thier first expansion plans is Space and the "Light Powers". This means more than just the GL Corp to be added. It has to wait for the first expansion so they can do justice to be a Green Lanturn. That said, I think they are wanting to do all the ring colors plus explore the other Space groups as well.

You CAN create a hero inspired by Superman, Wonder Woman, etc....Or custom.....They don't start off or end up an exact replica but you def. feel like a Krytonian, Amazon etc.....

Its about time they get a release date on this.Cant wait!(=

I'm amazed at how little the people on here actually know about the game.


I'm in the PS beta right now and honestly, having played a lot of MMO's this is easily the best; witch is a truly amazing thing because it doesn't even have .05% of the content it will soon. That really speaks volumes, because they’re already hundreds of hours of game here.


If your confused; a open beta is basically this massive play test done by consumers to help add polish and to help perfect a games game play before its release.


I've made 8 completely unique characters so far and I love it.


The combat in this game is insanely satisfying, it’s what pounding the piss out of enemies like a super hero/villain would and should feel like.



So far as the action combat, this is true, physics based, I hit square and my guy punches you in the face, you go flying down the street type of game play. It’s epic to say the least. No other MMO has that, quite literally, every other MMO that isn't a crappy space ship game. Theirs none of that just plain lame, click a power/ability box and watch your character do a boring animation as you aimlessly trot around a world with no physics, couldn't feel more dull.



If you've been waiting for an MMO that delivers beat em’ up, epic scale combat. This is indeed, what you've been waiting for. Even the movement is an integral part of the combat.

@Knight

"And it's probably going to be nothing more than a mindless hack'n'slash just like City of Heroes, Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2 and JLA: Heroes with very little RPG elements."

Way off. Play it and it'll change your mind.

@Tittie

Because 600, 000 Green Lanterns flying around Gotham and Metropolis makes a lot of sense right? ...Right? (Big Honkin' Sarcasm Alert!)


The movement in this game also feels as epic as it should; running, scaling buildings like spider-man, flying about at super sonic speeds or braking the sound barrier as you run up the side of a building... Just moving around in the game is more fun and epic than any other MMO on the market today.


I think the mind blowing scale of these city's deserve a mention as well, however big you imagine them being; they're bigger, a lot bigger.


Some of the places I've visited aside from the gargantuan Metropolis and Gotham are Small Ville (Kent farm), Arkham Asylum, Sinestro Corps VS the Green Lantern Corps at Ace Chemical, Star Labs, The Watch Tower, The Hall Of Doom, Black Adams eastern desert country and much, much more.

Smashing a bus on someone’s head is pretty fun as well.



Give this game a try, you won’t regret it.



Powers rumored to be in the games first few expansions:

Stretchy Powers ala Plastic-Man/Mr. Fantastic

Hard Light, Sharp Beam/Laser Powers (What Green Lanterns do more or less)

More shape-shifting options for the nature class.

Two new weapon choices.

Two new combat role choices.

Monthly end game content. (via updates, not expansion)

New Character Create Costume pieces.

New Body Types.

Themyscira, Paradise Island, mystical home of Wonder Woman.

The Green Lantern home world, Oa. Likely for instances and raids.

Apocalypse, DarkSieds slave planet and home world. Likely for instances and raids.