DC Universe Online preview covers the basics

This new preview of DC Universe Online over at Kotaku doesn't really have any new information in it for people who've been keeping up on the game. However, it does at least put it all in once place, which makes it a useful article to give to anyone not in the know about SOE's upcoming superhero MMO.

One specific thing the article mentions is that aside from the big superstars of the DC Universe, there's not a whole lot differentiating the game from City of Heroes. We'd like to point out that from what we've seen and experienced with the game, that isn't entirely true. Combat is quite a lot different than NCsoft's original guys-in-capes offering. If anything, a closer comparison would be to Cryptic's upcoming Champions Online, which seems to sit somewhere between City of Heroes and DC Universe Online, overall.

Then again, we really can't make that kind of call until all the games are out to play. But by this time next year, that should likely be the case.