Justice League Heroes

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Justice League Heroes
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
EngineSnowblind
Platform(s)PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
ReleaseDS, PlayStation 2, Xbox
PlayStation Portable
  • NA: November 22, 2006[6]
  • EU: December 8, 2006[5]
  • AU: December 22, 2006
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Justice League Heroes is a 2006 console video game for the

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in conjunction with DC Comics and was distributed in Europe by Eidos Interactive. Based on the long-running comic book series Justice League, it was written by comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie.[7] It uses the Snowblind Studios game engine.[8]

Three handheld Justice League Heroes games were released at the same time for the

The Flash. The game featured 2D sidescrolling action gameplay and a sidestory to the console game's plot. This version was developed by WayForward Technologies
.

Gameplay

Justice League Heroes features two player cooperative gameplay. Seven heroes are initially available to players, with others being unlockable.

The game features most of the best known superheroes from the DC Universe, including Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman among others. Each level consists of two members of the Justice League battling a variety of villains and their henchmen. When the game is being played by a single player, the player can freely switch between playing as either of the two Justice League members at any time. In a two player game, the players can only switch which characters they control by mutual consent. There was another Justice League game in development from Midway Games that was canceled in 2004 but, according to Warner Bros., this game is totally unrelated to the current project.[9]

Upon starting a new game, the player has immediate access to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, John Stewart, Martian Manhunter, and Zatanna, but more characters (as well as alternative costumes) can be unlocked as the game progresses. These unlockable characters can only be used on levels in which the player(s) can choose which characters to take whereas the costumes can be used at any time.[citation needed]

There are also three initial difficulties (Easy, Medium, Hard) and then upon completion of Hard, Elite is unlocked, and then upon completion of Elite, Superhero is unlocked. In each successive difficulty level, the opponents do more damage to the superheroes and also have more health/life, and offsetting the gains in skills. On Superhero difficulty, many of the opponents will kill most superheroes in one hit. The player must have mastered a number of skills and strategies to deal with them.[citation needed]

Plot

The story of the game begins with

John Stewart (voiced by Michael Jai White), followed by an attempt by Killer Frost (voiced by Nika Futterman) which is foiled by Zatanna and Wonder Woman (voiced by Courtenay Taylor
). Despite the League's efforts, one missile is launched undetected during a worldwide communications blackout caused by Brainiac.

However, the League realize it has been upgraded; capable of breaking Earth's orbit, the missile has actually been fired at

Doomsday (voiced by Charlie Davis) who takes him prisoner and takes over control of the Watchtower while Brainiac steals a Mother Box from the League's vaults. Regrouping in an emergency bunker, the League manage to retake the Watchtower, free J'onn and defeat Doomsday, before confronting the real Brainiac in his lair in Siberia
.

Seemingly defeated, Brainiac suddenly returns to life as the

Watchtower
, with the Sensory Matrix Field Generator locked away in the League's vaults, Batman informs the others that if a danger like this should happen again, they would be there.

There are an additional four supervillains unique to the Nintendo versions of the game: both the GBA and DS versions feature

Zoom, while the DS also includes The General and Prometheus
.

Characters

Playable characters

Villains

^a "Striker" in the Game Boy Advance version
^b "Striker" in the Nintendo DS version
^c Appears as a non-player character in the Game Boy Advance version
^d Appears as a non-player character in the Nintendo DS version
^e Exclusive to the PSP version
^f Does not appear in the Nintendo DS version
^g Exclusive to the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions
^h Exclusive to the PSP, PS2 and Xbox versions
^i Does not appear in the Game Boy Advance version

Each of the seven main characters has at least two alternate

bat emblem
on his chest, as well as the Batman Beyond suit. The unlockable Green Lanterns have exactly the same powers as John Stewart and are effectively just changes to the costume, voice, and minor visual differences in their powers and combat animations and fight idles: John Stewart has a rectangular shield, Rayner a triangular one.

Reception

The PS2, Xbox and PSP versions received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

The PlayStation Portable version was praised for customization and co-op game play. It also received better reviews by both fans and critics than the console versions.[16][15][17] The game was unfavorably compared to the similar multiplayer Marvel games X-Men Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, which allow the player to choose any character on any level, while Justice League Heroes contains several levels where the choice was taken away.

The DS version was not well received as well,[18] with Nintendo Power giving it a 3.5, GameSpot a 5/10[19] and IGN a 4.4.[20] The GBA version received generally positive critical response.[21]

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