I have a few friends playing the PC version of this and they were enjoying it, and so I decided “what the heck” and bought it.

Character customisation is pretty impressive with a wide enough variety to minimise the risk of embarrassment of bumping into someone in exactly the same costume.

I spent the weekend trying various combinations of powers, movement and combat skills and still not quite sure what I’ll stick with yet. Flight is probably what I’ll stick with for movement though the others (Acrobatics and Super-speed) are rather fun.

Control-wise, I find the 6 power limit on the action bar a bit restrictive and not being an aficionado of Street Fighter and its ilk, I’m not used to combos for my combat skills which involves various combinations of tapping and holding down mouse buttons.

Questing is pretty normal for this sort of things. Main ones are multi-part with tasks to defeat x of particular type of minions, repair/destroy/transport y amount of specific objectives, before going into an instanced building to fight your way through minions, possibly destroy/fix/take more objects along the way before fighting a boss (e.g. Bane) often with the aid of a famous/semi-famous superhero.

Not experienced much PvP action yet as I chose a PvE server for my initial playing, but I’m certainly going to give it a go despite the dread that it’ll just be a gankfest.

It’s rather quite fun though it feels like a DC licensed and polished up version of City of Heroes, albeit simplified for the PS3 crowd (I suspect). The game definitely benefits from the vocal talents of actors who will be familiar to fans of DC superhero cartoons too.