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The interview is with Jim Lee

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/893/893212p1.html


I liked this part

 


"Jim Lee: One of the coolest things that we just introduced is being able to run up the side of buildings. If you're a speedster, the way it's setup -- obviously you can't move so fast as to screw up the game balance between different kinds of characters -- but you do feel you're running through the cities really fast. You control it; you hit the wall; you go up the wall, dude; you go over the roof and come back down -- it's cool. I just wanted to do that for a while and all these NPCs were attacking me and I was like "Get away!" I just wanted to run around and explore, but that was not the case. Lex Luthor found me and killed me. That's the kind of stuff, and then flying around? Being able to fly to the top of these skyscrapers, land on the top and look around? It's really cool. It's just stuff that you don't really think about when you're drawing comic books. It definitely gives me a deeper appreciation of the world that we create in 2D.

 

 

Obviously there is still skepticism around how good this game will end up being, but I'm definitely hoping they pull it off.



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Here are a couple gameplay videos

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/755358/dc-comics-mmo/videos/DC_ONline_offscreen_ccSD08_pickupcar.html

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/755358/dc-comics-mmo/videos/DC_ONline_offscreen_ccSD08_running.html

that actually looks pretty fun. Obviously the fluidity of the gameplay could use some work. But I'm sure that will be improved as the game gets closer to release.

The combat looks a lot more fun and action oriented then compared to City of Heroes. It also appears like there is a lot more depth to the fighting.



I'm cautiously optimistic as a big fan of the DC mythos (I want to be a New God!) but this is SOE and their track record hasn't exactly been stellar as of their last several games (counting down until first EQ2 fan posts that it's the greatest thing ever...3...2...1...)