My first impressions....
Not that great I am afraid.
As Elv has previously said, it starts exactly the same of COH just with shinyer graphics (something I will get on to in a moment)
As I have stopped playing WoW I was hoping that something might come along to reignite my interest in MMOs again, unfortunately CO is not that game.
Other than the character customisation which is very detailed, the game it self seems to be a very generic MMO - Run and speak to this person, collect x amount of these, kill these etc. Just another grind fest.
It does seem simplistic - something that I guess has to do with it been developed for the Xbox also - no complicated key commands here!
The Graphics, the animation, they seem a backwards step from WoW - a massive step. Considering WoW is nearly 5 years old I was quite astonished by that. FYI, My system is pretty decent - I have the graphics detail up quite high.
I appreciate that the developers do not have the buckets of cash like Blizz have but you would have thought that to give the game a chance to survive they would take some of the good points from WoW to encourage people to play this.
To that end, I have cancelled my order from Play - no point on wasting my money on something I will probably never play but at least I know now.
I genuinely believe that CO will go the same way of CoH. People are only interested in it at the moment as they are bored with WoW - If/when the new content for WoW has been released people will be back.
The only other MMO that has come close to what I want from an MMO is Conan - seriously tempted to pick that up come the end of the summer months.
I can only hope that SWTOR will be good, if not then its back to single player games for me!
Well, I expect to be told otherwise, and that CO is a great game and that I should stick with it.....