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The Justice League is finally here!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: October 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! I love it. They all hold such awesome powers; it's great to actually play some of my favorite DC heroes esp. the Flash. If you're a fan of superheroes or just fighting games, this game is for you!

All-Action Heroes

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 55 / 58
Date: October 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES is an arcade-style actioner. There's no deep thinking here, just twitch movement and slam-bang action with some of DC's greatest heroes. People looking for something deep or something more along the lines of a true RPG need to look elsewhere. This one is for the kids -- and for dad (and moms) who want to be superheroes with their kids.

We bought the game yesterday when it came out. So far, my 9-year-old has spent hours on it. My 17-year old has been there as well (giving up time on MySpace to hang with his little brother during fall break), and dad and mom have suited up with the caped crowd as well. As a general across-the-board game the whole family can play and have fun at, JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES succeeds.

The game is for 1-2 player(s). It has a preset course that doesn't allow you to choose heroes, but you get to cycle through them in pairs. There's even a feature that allows a single player to shift characters in the pair. Players playing together can do the same, swapping characters over and over as they go along.

The primary choices for the missions are Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Flash, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter. It looks like there are possibilities to be other superheroes as well, but we haven't gotten there yet.

For the younger crowd or players wanting a no-brainer with awesome graphics and cool cut-scenes, JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES really hits the spot. This is the perfect game to get the kids for Christmas, then sit right down with them over Christmas break and be a kid again yourself.

Underwhelming

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: October 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For all the pre-release talk about how this game was going to try and make each hero both distinctive and evocative of their comic-book inspiration, this game is basically a reskinning of a standard-issue arcade punch-and-shoot-em-up. Superman can fly, technically, but really what he does is sort of hover and geriatrically creep forward through the air. Batman and Superman take the exact same amount of damage from getting punched in the face by the same robot. And so on. For someone who hasn't played this sort of game before and really likes DC Comics, it's a decent enough effort. (My five-year old thinks it is fun.) For anyone who had even modestly higher expectations, it's a disappointment.

More than meets the eye.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As a previous reviewer pointed out, there's nothing groundbreaking to be found in this game. It was built on Snowblind's Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance game engine; it's the standard smash and grab game and the game itself is kinda short too. If you're only interested in beating the game once and putting it away, you're sure to be disappointed.

However, if you're a DC fan you'll find the game's story interesting and if you play the game over, continuing to develop your characters as you go, you'll find the game MORE CHALLENGING and MORE FUN! You can't fully develop ANY of the character's powers and abilities playing the game only once. There are also lots of perks for certain characters (Superman) in the unlockable game items that REALLY enhance the gameplay.

If you buy this game, plan to play it through MORE than once to get your money's worth.

If you own this game, finished it once and put it away, get it out and play it again with the saved characters from the last game! You'll be pleasantly surprised.

All Done!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game when it first came out, and I've already finished it. By no means am I a gamer, but this game was not challenging at all. You would think that the powerhouse superheroes like SuperMan and Wonder Woman would be tougher. I was able to beat the bosses without dying once. This game was a big dissapointment. At least Marvel Alliance comes out tomorrow!

DC Comics fans FINALLY get a decent game with their heroes!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am not a gamer, but I am a huge fan of the DC Comics characters Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman! With JLH, we finally get a game featuring DC Comics that is not awful. In fact, this is downright fun!

But if you are a DC Comics fans, then it is beyond fun--it makes you yell out loud and jump for joy TOTALLY geeking out at all the fan boy goodness therein.

First off, the characters are very much inspired by their comic book selves and play that way. Superman and Wonder Woman are very evenly matched in strength and toughness as they are in the books. However, Superman has greater offensive measures whereas Wonder Woman has greater defensive capability and is more balanced. They even have her bracelets do the deflection thing which makes your enemies offense her own.

Of course, with normals like Batman (and HUNTRESS!!! She looks SO. COOL!!!) in the game there is going to be a suspension of belief as they can punch and be punched by the same robots that Superman and Wonder Woman can be hit by and uh, not like, die and stuff. But that is to be expected.

That does not for me detract from the customization of each hero. Batman even has his Batman Begins bat attack!

I have to say, the animated clips are eyepopping and amazing with nods to the various media the heroes appeared in and to their comic book selves. The heroes voices sound great and are very well done. And the action is epic in the clips. At one point, Wonder Woman is out in space defending Earth from an invading battle fleet! And it is ON!!

Gameplay is okay on its own. But throw in the DC characters and it is magical!!! With a replay revisit factor out of the park as you can continue to build the heroes once you beat the game the first time.

Get it and go ga ga at the cool and varied displays of the Leaguers Superpowers and for the beautiful graphics and the EXCELLENT sound and superpowers! From Zatanna's spellcasting to Flash superspeed, from Wonder Woman's Magic Lasso to Superman's heat vision, it is amazing to see everything work so differently and look (and SOUND!!!) so cool!

Get it today!

action at its best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm the kind of guy who loves a good action game. However, I'm not crazy about superheroes. That's the only bad thing about the game. The fact that superheroes are the characters in charge is the only complaint I can find.

I won't complain, though. Because going around performing superhero moves on the enemies is really fun. This game finally got it right, breaking a horrible tradition of releasing one bad superhero game after another. Finally, a good one. No, I take that back- a GREAT one.

Phoning it in

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My wife and I were thrilled when JLH came out and got it immediately. We're both big Justice League fans (mostly from tv) but could not help but be very dissapointed with the game.

We played two-players and enjoyed the different abilities of the characters. However the overhead view (much like the X-Men games but not as good) often obscured the action and lots of tight spaces made running in tandem difficult more often than it needed to.

Worst is the "dramatic" depiction of the characters. Not to sound too nerdy here but, Superman is supposed to be, well, nice/good, but was portrayed as overly testosterone-y. The cutscene graphics were outdated and made the heroes look unnatractive, the storyline was very simple and showed very little creativity. With the wealth of DC story writing they could have done so much better.

The game was very short (about 15 hours). There were destructable surroundings but you don't get anything for destroying your surroundings, like power-ups or secret items (and we broke everything breakable...everything). And when the game ended, it just sort of ended, no cool closing cut-scene for completing the game, just looping graphics behind the credits, no easter-eggs (that we found anyway), nothing much at all.

The designers/developers needed to play a few other games to see what they were competing against. I would rather assume they didn't instead of assuming they did and just chose to make a comparitivly weak effort at a game that so many were looking forward to.

So, if you want to play as The Flash, or unlock Hawkgirl, you can have some fun, but I would warn any buyers to keep their expectations very low because the designers seemed to be just phoning it in.

Pretty Good - But I want More!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was very excited about this game because I'm a huge fan of the DC Comics universe. I found this to be pretty much a knock-off of X-Men: Legends, but since I enjoyed that, I enjoyed this too, especially since I like the characters better.

Despite what some of these other reviews say, I think the graphics are really good and the characters are true to form. What this game offers is great; I just wish there was more--more story, more levels, more gameplay.

A good start

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I typically agree with most of the comments here. It's a very linear storyline, just like the Baldur's Gate, Champions of Norrath games from Snowblind Studios.

My enjoyment came from exploring all of the different super powers of the heroes and using them in combat. In playing the heroes, you got the feeling that the programmers took pains to craft each character's abilities as they should be. The fact that they did this AND made the interface as simplistic as possible is really the best part of the game.

So, overall, if you're a fan of superheroes, this game is worth it. I'll be excited to see some improvements in a sequel, though: namely non-linearity of gameplay and flexibility of character selection.

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