In one of my rare possible lapses of judgement I decided to buy this on releae. Which in NZ was today. And people still insist that I live in the future for some reason.
I haven't played it yet of course due to the 2.9GB additional download, I'm starting to think it would be worth some game producers mailing out disks instead of asking us to drain our monthly bandwidth allowance so there you go, I do live in a country with old fogey ISPs.
For some reason, (closet superhero fan,) this game really excites me. Yes it's an MMO and I've never liked, (nor played to any great extent,) MMOs but after seeing some game play and finding that it's not all math, macros and grind, has great scenery, it has decent voice acting, (most of the time,) and the character create actually lets you be quite creative. To be honest the character models could be a bit less set in stone. I mean Hell, either lumpy boulder, bodybuilder or midget bodybuilder - and that's not even as bad as it is for the ladies who have gargantuan chick with double Es, large chick with double Es and midget chick with double Es.. Surely today where superheroes and action stars are more lean than the 1980s/early 90s lumpy masses of steroids there'd be a slider bar to tone up or down things... but Hell this is the DC comic universe we're talking about I guess.
So yeah, been looking forward to this. The funny thing is that I already know exactly what a couple of my creations will be like since I've already created them, (closet superhero fan remember,) because when I was about eleven I kept coming up with superheroes and supervillains. In fact the predecessor of my current moniker here came from a superhero I created. I just hope none of the names I picked are taken.
We'll see how the game is in the first free month anyway, if it's not worth anything after than I can call it quits easily enough.