Game review: DC Legends – superhero line-up lacks punch
Mobile format has its shortcomings for gamers and while this freebie is fun, it offers little to rave about
DC Legends
Warner Bros.
3/5 stars
Here’s the thing about mobile games: there just isn’t enough firepower in your hand-held device to make good on those big-budget promises. Developers swamp the App and Play stores with awesome-looking visuals and exaggerated trailers, showing how you, too, can be a superhero or a super soldier or a super spy using only the limited hardware of your little pocket computer.
But it’s rarely actually the case– and DC Legends (for iOS and Android) offers more proof. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not a bad game, but it just promised to be so much more. All your favourite old-fashioned comic folks in spandex are here – Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash – alongside a host of cult favourites and nobodies, from Harley Quinn to, umm, Hawkgirl. You team up into groups of four and battle it out in turn-based matches, as you pair complementary characters, power up and hopefully turn your heroes “legendary”.
