First off, let me say that I began playing this before finishing ESO, and was really excited about it and wanted to hop right in. All of my ESO friends were making the switch and raving about it. They kept wanting me to hop over and start playing with them, so I gave in and downloaded it. It was free to download, and free to play - somewhat. But, honestly, this game is so bad, I'm not even sure where to start.
Let's start with character creation. You get 2 starting slots for new characters. I am assuming one for Villain and one for Hero. You choose which you want to be, and then choose your mentor - Heroes get either Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman, and Villains get either Joker, Circe, or Lex Luthor. Once chosen, the customization options are pretty good. The powers are pretty awesome as well, except you can only choose a few for free, and have to pay to use others. Once you choose your powers and customize your look and colors, you are put through a tutorial. All of this led me to believe this would be a really good game.
Once out of the tutorial, you start your quests in your given area of either Metropolis or Gotham depending on who your mentor is. From here, it goes downhill. All the quests seem to be the same. Smash the thing, pick up the thing and get it to the place, defeat so-and-so. ALL OF THEM. While it is really cool getting to work along side iconic heroes and villains, it seems like all you are really doing is grinding. And here's the worst part: You're grinding for nothing because you can only spend $2000 at a time in free play. So you can't save up that hard earned money to buy an awesome iconic armor set that costs $4000 per set piece because anything you make over $2000 going into escrow, which is their way of saying "Hey, if you just pay some money monthly and become a member, we will give you access to all your cash." So you basically have find new armor and weapons, because most things can't be traded from player to player either. I find myself spending money at every vendor on everything I can just so that I get to use my own hard earned money, whether I want the item or not, and repairing my gear every 5 seconds just so that $10 doesn't leak into escrow.
Not only that, but the menu is a nightmare. It's hard to navigate and if you push the wrong button on accident your effed. The chat menu is hard to get to and figure out how to use, and it took me - it seemed like - five years just to figure out that there are social emotes like in ESO... I still don't know how to use them. The minimap for navigation is a nightmare as well. It's off in the corner instead of a bar above your head like in ESO, so you find yourself looking at it 98% of the time just to get to where you want to go, or find who you need to talk to, instead of enjoying the beautiful open world of Metropolis and Gotham.
You also get a lair at level 10. You can't use it, however, because you have to either be a member or pay for it separately. So, it's basically just an empty building you can go into that only you and your friends can go into, and you also get to name it... if you can figure that out. Oh, also, you have to pay for it with in game cash. Yeah, they don't just give it to you. It's at least $500.
Playing with friends isn't fun. You can form a group like in ESO, but it there are no indicators to let you know where your members are except on the mini map. You can't travel to a member from your menu (unless I haven't figured that out either) and if they are in a building or a different city, your pretty much left wondering where they heck they are. You better hope you're in party chat.
Sharing quests is a joke. 9 times out of 10 you can't share even though there is a share option. The other 1 out of 10, your friend has already done the thing.
People steal kills... and everything else they can. There are so many NPCs that you have to kill and wade through that you find yourself getting frustrated, especially since their respawn rate is insane, and once you have finally killed the 100th guy to get to that thing you were suppose to pick up, some a-hole swoops in and steals it, leaving you to fight through 100 more to get to the next thing, only to have that stolen as well. Swooping is bad. And infuriating.
All in all, this game doesn't make you feel like a Hero at all, which is what it was intended to do. It's the same old bump and grind over and over again, even when you start with a new mentor, and it's so frustrating that when you finally log out, you'll be so mad that you can't see straight. It is free, however. So, if you feel like you need to find out for yourself, go ahead and download it. But I'm telling you dude, you're going to hate it.
In my opinion, this game was nothing but a quick release cash grab. I wouldn't recommend it, but if you decide to give it a try, choose your hero or villain carefully, don't make any in game purchases (because you'll regret them later) and play through once. I give it a 3 out of 10, and that's only because it's free and DC.
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