Sony Online Entertainment's John Blakely has a post-E3 interview posted at MMOGamer.com. In it he discusses DC Universe Online and its design philosophy. A hands on look at DCUO will be forthcoming for all of us after this week's Comic Con.

The MMO Gamer: The game has been, to say the least, shrouded in mystery and intrigue. As far as I know, this is the first time you've ever shown off anything-unless I'm mistaken.

So, also for those among our readers who may be unfamiliar, could you fill us in on a little of the game's back story and purpose?

John Blakely: Yes, it is the first time we're talking about it, and yes it has been shrouded in mystery.

One of the things that we wanted to do was to make sure we took a careful amount of time to do a lot of deep pre-production on the product, and really understand what it is we were making, play what we were making, and then start talking about it, so that we could give the fans some answers and actually get them engaged.

DC_scr_icn_Bane_0001.jpgThis is DC Universe Online... it's a daunting task, because there's probably seventy years of continuity to pick from. We have in our license about 150 iconic characters, and those are heroes, villains, supporting cast, plus all the spaces and places that they play in and live in. That's a lot of stuff to create and tie together into one unified game.

We kind of said "How can we do this?" And we realized that we needed to interpret it as if we're walking through a door into the DC Universe. The universe already persists in people's imaginations... in when they read those stories, watch the movies, the TV shows, they're already imagining what things are like, and Batman lives in their hearts and minds.

So what we need to do is kind of bring in an interpreter to help us build that world.

We enlisted the help of one uber MMO gamer, Jim Lee, who also happens to be one of the world's best comic book artists, and one of the senior editorial folks at DC, to kind of work with us as a bridge to speak gamer with us and then also be able to speak DC and allow us to work with the license to make sure the game delivered a compelling experience for players.

What DC Universe is, it's the first time that you'll be able to walk through that door, create your own custom superhero or supervillain, and work alongside or against some of the greatest heroes or villains of the DC Universe.

We're going to be on the Playstation 3 as well as the PC, and the first thing we're going to do with this product is to build a great superhero game.

This isn't your mother or father's MMO.

Check out the rest of the interview and/or listen to the audio at MMOGamer.com.