This was a good review and it paints DCUO in a much better light then I was expecting, so that makes me relieved to read and pulls me towards wanting to try the game out eventually. But there’s a bunch of fact checking problems and one other major issue I have to bring up that I feel is pertinent to the review and might even help the process in the future.

First things first, this game has been largely toted as a game that’s going to be played on the PC and the PS3, the gameplay is supposed to be played on a gamepad of some sort. While I understand that the game can be, and should be able to be, played with the the mouse and keyboard I have to wonder why it doesn’t seem like you even try to get one in order to play the game the way it was intended to, even on the PC. I seem to believe some control issues would have been cleared up this way and it would have been nice for us to be able to hear your ideas on the differences between the two.

Another thing is the length of the article. I didn’t mind it, its a review of a MASSIVE game -any MMO review should be large and this site shouldn’t be afraid of that. If people are going to complain that they have to read then.. I don’t know what they’re doing with most of the internet.. But if its really a worry of yours to anger people with long MMO reviews then one thing you may want to consider is breaking these reviews up in parts over many days, or even a few weeks, giving us more of your experiences over time. The thing about MMO’s is they’re about time and even though this one seems VERY short it wouldn’t hurt to spend a little while with it between review sections to get a better idea of how your feeling about the game, its gameplay, its bugs, and how Sony is handling things as a whole -which also would have given you more of a chance to get in on more of the endgame raids maybe- instead of just blurting out your entire review in one sitting.

Fact Checking is another thing. If you guys are at least marginally looking to be taken seriously -both with this site and as reviewers- your going to have to do even some minor fact checking on some of the references your making. I understand from a part later in your article that you don’t know much about the DCU, and that’s perfectly ok -not every one can sort through the BS of comics- but even though I know Bane is not Mexican I still spent all of 3 seconds searching him on google because you said he was and came up with the fact that his place of birth is some fictional island in the Caribbean -not Mexico.

Later in the article you claim that Gina Torres has a slight Jamaican accent when another 3 second search would have told you that shes from New York and both of her parents are Cuban and Puerto Rican decent -so does this mean Angry Joe’s slight accent is Jamaican too? .. lol.. It might not seem like a lot but see how a little thing like not fact checking could get you in some trouble?

Also in a more speculative note I want to call attention to the idea that modders might be allowed to add more bars for skills and such. I have very high doubts that Sony will allow this since the game will be played on a console as well as the PC and if Sony were to say “We’ll allow it for the PC” it’ll surely make the console crowd riot -which I’m positive isn’t in the companies best interests to do. It’d probably just be best not to get peoples hopes up on these things until some official statement gets made.

Like I said though, overall I liked the review and its done a good job to keep my interest in wanting to try the game out. and I look forward to more of your reviews