One Shots: Fight fire with fire

by Krystalle Voecks on Feb 3rd 2011 4:00PM

Super-hero, Screenshots, One Shots, Consoles, DC Universe Online

While the heroic and villainous deeds completed every day in DC Universe Online are becoming somewhat familiar, there are other dangers that await careless players in the world at large. If you're a fire-based tank, an overzealous fireman could really wreck your day. Thankfully, fire-based heroes don't seem to set off fire alarms! Today's amusing One Shots comes to us from Sean W., who writes in: "This is a screenshot of my hero Solar Wave on the server Virtue and Vice in DC Universe Online. It is amazing finding this amount of detail everywhere in the game. The funny part is that the fire station is just outside when you come out of Grodd's lair."

Have you snapped a fun shot of your MMO hero or villain recently? If so, we're always on the lookout for great screenshots to feature. Just email your image to us here at oneshots@massively.com along with your name, the name of the game, and a note about what we're seeing in the image. Please make sure your screenshot is at least 1024px wide and has no visible UI elements. Yours could be the next picture we feature here on Massively!

One Shots: 2011

Tags: console, dc-universe-online, dcuo, one-shots, pc, ps3, screenshot, screenshots, sean-w, soe, sony-online-entertainment

Reader Comments (1)

I picked this one up several nights ago, initial first impressions are very good.

Mind you, this is the first time I’ve played an MMO in the opening month; typically I pick them up after they’ve been up for a year or more, sometimes more, so I know they’re not going to evaporate on me. So my surprise that DCMO launched off the pad without some stuff…you know, little stuff, like server markets (a genuine WTFH moment), but I know other MMO’s were fairly bare bones at start.

A massive A+ on the game art and graphics. A genuine drawn and painted look was put throughout the game. Locations like the JLA watch tower are a stunning fusion of living, breathing, OMG-I-can-actually-walk-through-this-thing-in-real-time realism, and yet looks lifted from the pages of a DC comics issue.

So far the massive depth of the DC universe is only partially tapped, with any luck that will be added in bit by bit, but the sense of immersion of Metropolis and Gotham City is complete. Character powers often do feel epic, even in the opening levels…you can almost see the Bwam! and Crack!! on the screen in bold, colorful letters.

No chat balloons, which was a stunner, coming from a CoH veteran, but I’ve been used to that since ‘Galaxies. They need to add it to complete the graphic novel look. But the comic quality cut scenes when taking down a canon character are really nice. There’s a sense of greater plot here. Visually everything meshes well, characters and environments. The recorded dialogue ranges from campy to epic, with great voice performances from Mark Hamill, Gina Torres, etc.

All in all worth loading it up and giving a go, even as we’re watching the paint dry in the JLA.