May 15, 2006

…at this moment from Mike Antonucci’s gaming weblog at the Mercury News. He’s talking about things that interested him at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this past week —

“Justice League Heroes’’ from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for PS2 and Xbox (plus a PSP version).

Activision’s “Marvel: Ultimate Alliance’’ generated far more buzz as a slick superhero game. But the “Justice League” game struck me as having an exceptionally good fix on why DC’s characters — including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Green Lantern — have such massive iconic stature in pop culture. It plays in a way that evokes many comic-book traditions, and the graphics I saw maximized what the original Xbox can offer. There is one thing that will irritate a lot of hard-core comics fans: The main Green Lantern character is John Stewart, not THE Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.

Heh heh. A man after my own heart. …I don’t mind John Stewart. But my opinions about the preferred Earth-based GL were formed when Hal was in office….

Must take a look at the game, anyway, as I’m a big JL fan.

[tags]comics, computer game, Justice League, JLA, JLU, Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment [/tags]