DC Universe Online Character Creator
So while the game loads I will tell you about character creation. When you first arrive on the scene you’re given the whole story about how Lex Luthor came back from the past to save the future and stole tech from Brainiac and then unleashed it on the world in order to create millions of new super powered people who will fight for good or evil. One of them is you obviously. You then go into the character creator which allows you to choose gender and body type: large medium or small. From there you can base your character on 15 real DC characters and edit from there or start completely from scratch. Either way you have to then choose numerous options to get your character together including:
- Costume - Choose the style, logos, options and colors for all your gear, hair, skin and clothing here.
- Template - If you chose a particular hero/villain or chose your own set of stats to determine you basic fighting style, weapons and attitude.
- Gender - male/female. Oddly no androgynous types
- Builds - Body size, you can’t edit actual body proportions aside from small, medium, large which is applied to everything evenly.
- Morality - Hero or villain too bad there’s not a middle ground like some anti-heroes.This is mostly for your mentor, affiliation and to give you quests of course. It’s basically faction.
- Mentor - Determines how you view the world, your categories of weapons and armor.
- Power - Where you get it from: Fire, Gadgets, Ice, Mental, Nature, Sorcery. Fairly basic if you ask me.
- Weapon - Your weapon of choice. Choose from: Bow, brawling, dual pistol, dual weild (melee weapons), hand blast, Martial Art, one-handed (melee), rifle, staff and two-handed (melee).
- Movement - One of three types: flight, acrobratics, super speed.
Then you name your character and get thrust into it. My suggestion, don’t lose too much sleep over what your costume looks like as you will start equipping items and within the matter of an hour or two, won’t even know what your original costume looked like. That was sort of troubling to me. Superman always looks like Superman, Batman, even with all his gadgets always looks like Batman. You, after only a couple levels of getting gear and powering up, will look 
absolutely nothing like you had originally planned. After some digging around in the menus I actually found a place to change it all. It’s in style tab in the menu where you can cycle through all the wearable gear you’ve collected. There are entire suits or you can mix and match or, if you’re a purist, you can keep your exact look for as long as you like.
In regards to powers there seems to be a lot missing. For example, I don’t recall seeing any kind of eye beams, like pictured above. There’s also no sonic powers a la Black Canary. Both of these probably would have fit into the weapons category which is mostly for ranged weapons There’s also no Earth or Water-based powers or Air. Some might say that falls into nature but then why are there Fire and Ice categories? There’s also no Alien category (there is meta which is sort of ambiguous). Given the storyline that’s understandable but then the Martian Manhunter, Superman, Bizarro all show up in the fight.
While writing those last couple paragraphs I somehow lost connection to PSN. That then logged me out of the game which came to a dead end screen which said you must be logged in, but did not offer you a way to login. So then you must again exit to the dashboard and reload the whole game. Really, I think this game is probably better on the PC in some technical aspects. Why would it not automatically dump you back to the character choice screen?
