Penguin enters DC Universe Online fray

By Fred Dutton Published 22 March, 2011

New update also brings in Two Face.

Notorious Batman nemesis The Penguin is to get a starring role in Sony Online's DC Universe Online MMO with the next title update.

According to Massively, the new content will see you teaming up with bi-polar DC staple Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent to boot the villain out of Gotham.

In a smart twist, Dent will flip a coin at the outset of the new mission, with the game playing out differently depending on which side of his personality he adopts.

The 50/50 coin toss also carries over to PvP modes, with his attacks and stats different for both his Dent and Two Face alter-egos.

The update, which is due to go live in the next 10 days, also introduces Superman foe Mr. Mxyzptlk, although at this point it's not clear exactly in what capacity.

Various PvP exploits will also be smoothed over and something that director Chris Cao refers to as "chat 2.0." added in. You'll get push-to-talk functionality via the D-pad and an array of new social features, including revamped quick chat menus to make forming groups a more user-friendly process.

Sounds like another beefy update following last month's immense Catwoman-centric patch, with the title filling out nicely following a rather slim launch offering.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • captain_Carl #1 1 year ago

    Sounds exceedingly awesome. Glad they're supporting it heavily!

  • Hunam #2 1 year ago

    Yet the silly little bugs in the PC interface and menu's still exist. Doing more harm than anything else.

  • Stomp224 #3 1 year ago

    Is anyone still playing this? The week Killzone 3 launched it was a ghost town. :/

  • George-Roper #4 1 year ago

    Whoa EG, I think you need to get some additional bandwidth in place for sheer number of comments being generated here..

    Oh wait, no you don't. DC:U is a ghost town, mere weeks after launch, as predicted. Craptacular SOE failure, once again.

  • brof #5 1 year ago

    DCUO is a nice game on PS3 with a broken interface (slow menus!!!!) and many, many sound bugs, framerate issues all over the place... too bad. If it would be a single player game nobody would tolerate those bugs, why should we tolerate it for an MMO?
    Edited by brof at 22/03/11 @ 21:19

  • levitate #6 1 year ago

    They've all probably gone to RIFT as they should.