
As the world of DC Universe Online is based on comic book stories, there is a wide variety of genres in the game, from science fiction, mythology, time travel, and many more. Episodes add new areas, new options, and new missions. This can be in the form of providing advice, giving quests and missions.ĭC Universe Online has continually added expansions in the form of Episodes, with the most recent being World of Flashpoint.

The famous members of each faction would be the contacts and mentors, that assist the player characters. Depending on which faction the player chose, the characters will be members of the Justice League or the Society. The world of DC Universe Online is generally a public shard, allowing a multitude of players interact with one another, doing heroic or villainous actions against the civilian bystanders. Players who would like to start playing immediately can choose from templates based on familiar DC Comics superhero archetypes. There is a robust character creation system that lets players choose customization options such as body type, personality (which affects the character's poses and emotes), movement power (such as flight, acrobatics, super-speed, and such), powers and weapons. DC Universe Online lets players choose either the Hero or Villain faction. Players create their characters who is one of the individuals affected by these exobytes. Using exobyte technology, Luthor initiates a global effect that causes certain individuals to gain superpowers.ĭespite the protests of the present Justice League, Luthor claims this is the only way to save the future. In this particular reality, a future Lex Luthor escapes into the past to prevent the cosmic threat of Brainiac from taking over. DC Universe Online is set in one of the alternate realities in the multiverse based on the DC Comics properties.
