I'm just as excited as the next Marvel fan about the Marvel Universe Online news, since I've played City of Heroes while pretending I was already in the Marvel Universe. I know, it's sad... I'm a grown woman, mother of three... pathetic. But still, it's so much more fun than going out to the meat market bars to meet drunken men who spout really bad pick-up lines while breathing their beer breath on you and digging into the munchies bowl after they came out of the bathroom and you just KNOW they didn't wash their hands...
But I digress...
For those DC fans out there suffering from hero-envy about the Marvel news, don't fret... your day in the sun will come, and sooner than Marvel's game too.
SciFiWire has an article about the new Justice League Heroes video game, saying how the producers, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment have designed the next generation of role-playing games, so much so that they've stopped referring to this as an RPG. The game will also feature all of the major DC characters, such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Zatanna, as well as the unlockable superheroes Aquaman, Green Arrow and Hawkgirl.
Some of the recognizable voices in the game come from Ron Perlman (Hellboy) as Batman, Crispin Freeman (Slayers) as Superman, Michael Jai White (Spawn) as Green Lantern and Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911) as The Key. In the game, a meteor plummets toward Earth, sending messages to Brainiac and encouraging him to attack. There is a secret message hidden in the watchtower of the Justice League headquarters that Brainiac needs to find.
The game will be released in October for Playstation 2, Xbox, PSP, GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS, and a prequel comic has already been released, and offshoot titles on the Nintendo platforms are being developed as well.
