Justice League Heroes

by Eidos

Product Features

• Customize, control, and command the most powerful super hero force in the universe - Unite Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman and other extraordinary characters
• Learn new combination powers and make the heroes your own by forging specialized boosts for their superpowers
• Use objects in the destructible environment against your enemies at will and experience firsthand the awesome force of your superpowers in battle
• Play in cooperative team and single-player modes
• Story voiced by talent including Ron Perlman, Michael Jai White, Chris Edgerly, Ralph Garman and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FZXHNM
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 17, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,389 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Xbox

Brainiac and his villain cronies have a master plan to conquer the world and eliminate the Justice League forever. Using the extraordinary superpowers and amazing skills of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman, and other favorite DC Comics super heroes, players must join the Justice League to ultimately save humanity from Brainiac and the dark forces that lurk in the universe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gnizama! as Zatanna would say, October 21, 2006

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S. Young (Bountiful, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Justice League Heroes (Video Game)

I've enjoyed a few D.C. comics in my past. JLA and JLI being a few of them. My brother and I spent three days playing this from start to finish and we had a ball.

The music was outstanding! Both of us commented on it several times. Very 'Command & Conquer' sounding.

The powers they had seem just like in the comics. I though Huntress would be my fave but Zatanna ruled the day for me, with 'tloberif' and 'leah' at her command and my brother as Green Lantern we stormed through a lot of stuff. As you level up your powers they change with it. Zatanna went from one slow firebolt to two swirling ones that pounded the toughest enemies into the ground.

Another cool part is that they switch you around. Superman and Batman start it out and you find the characters you like as the story progresses. You may be Flash and Martian Manhunter fighting something on the ground then switch at the next scene and play Superman and Wonder Woman taking on a convoy of spaceships. Half of the time you get to pick your hero you play as.

Batman and Huntress were weaker than the superhumans... which I know they are. But it got frustrating trying to keep up if the other player is using a superhuman.

The ones who could fly got to stay up and it didn't drain their power meter, that was a great joy.

The story was wonderful, like you were living out a comic book and you were in control.

I gave JLH five stars for fun, because it was. I wouldn't mind playing it again. I gave it four for overall because they forced a few pairings on us that we hadn't built up to a high enough level and we spent an hour passing what should have been an easy board for us.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slow to start but grows on you. Critics too harsh., October 21, 2006

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J. Leigh "jleigh7" (chicago) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Justice League Heroes (Video Game)

This game feels liked a simplified X Men Legends game. That's not always a bad thing.

Unlike XMen you don't get to pick your team right away. You follow the storyline which picks your team of 2 people each time (at least initially). E.g. Supe and Batman; Flash and Green Lantern. You can choose who to control while playing and you can tell the computer-controlled AI to be either normal, passive or aggressive.

Attribute improvements are easier to manage than in X men which confronted you with so many different addons that you end up selling most of them anyway. In Justice League you gather orbs for luck, duration, efficiency, damage, etc that you can then apply to your powers or combine to form in groups of 3 to form more powerful power ups. The interface is intuitive and I managed to get through it without reading the manual. You can choose to use the powerups right away or just keep combining them till you have a super duper powerup.

You can unlock more powers using experience points gained by destroying the bad guys. Saving civilians gives you Justice league credits that you can then use to buy stuff like additional characters and costumes. You will have the option to choose the costumes and characters later in the game.

Overall the game gets repetitive pretty fast. It's not a particular fault of this game per-se, X-Men also got repetitive after a while.

But I have to admit, as you play this game longer and start powering up your heroes, the game does begin to grow on you. I think the fact that you have a core group of heroes that you level up helps make this game more intimate than X-Men because there are so many to choose from. This seemed to keep the game more connected with the story, whereas the 4 characters you play in X-Men may or may not appear in the cutscenes.

So while the game feels like a 3/5 initially, I edged towards 4/5 at the end. I think compared to X-Men this game had more creative execution of powers. Here for e.g. are a few that make this game unique as compared to X-Men:

- Batman's batarang looks like any other projectile weapon initially, it does have the ability to disarm an enemy which is useful when everyone's carrying a gun.

- Batman also has the batswarm attack which lets you launch a swarm of bats against an enemy that will attack it for a significant duration. You literally fire and run away to let the bats take care of it. I have used this effectively against the first boss.

- Flash's pinball power lets you bounce between enemies and attack them very quickly.

- Green Lantern has this giant grinder power that you literally mow your enemy down with.

- Zatana turns enemies into bunny rabbits.

When the game is over you can restart the game from the beginning using all the accumulated stats so that you can continue to become more powerful. You will reach appoint that superman can become so powerful that he can just stand there and get beaten by the enemy without affecting his health bar at all- which is what superman's supposed to be like anyway!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Game, great fun, October 31, 2006

By 

cmyth "cmyth007" (Albany, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Justice League Heroes (Video Game)

It is about time that DC comics got smart and released a game like this to compete with X-Men and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. This is a fantastic game and I hope that they follow up on it with a few refinements. Some people have said that there isn't quite as much fighting as there are in the x-men games--this is simply untrue.

Graphics are solid and I favor them over Xmen. I love the characters and each of them was very well done. They didn't overdo it with the powers like Xmen. The system is simpler and more to my liking. Gameplay is great, lots of fighting and plenty of action.

There are only a couple of complaints about this game. FIrst, I was not impressed with the voice over choices for some of the heroes. Ron Perlman--although I like the guy a lot--is just not Batman. Everytime I saw Batman speak and heard Ron's voice--it just didn't fit.

Also, I loved that there were some unlockable characters, but I didn't like that you couldn't chose your heroes on most levels, they were chosen for you. I hope that in the future they will improve this. I also thought it was silly to have three different Green Lanterns in the game--with the exact same powers. They could have mixed it up a bit more with them, but that is a relatively minor complaint. If you liked xmen legends, you'll seriously enjoy this game.

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