Upcoming “Young Justice: Legacy” Video Game Pushed Back To November 2013, New Platforms Announced

Publisher Little Orbit has informed The World’s Finest that the upcoming Young Justice: Legacy video game title has been pushed back to November 19th, 2013. Young Justice: Legacy, released in conjuncture with Warner Bros. Interactive, is an Action-RPG based on the popular Young Justice animated series that fills in the gap between the first and second season of the acclaimed animated series. Little Orbit also revealed that the title will also now be available on to own on the Wii and Nintendo 3DS systems on top of the previously mentioned PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii-U and Nintendo DS consoles and PC.

“They will have the same original story line written by [producers] Greg [Weisman] and Brandon [Vietti], but will take advantage of the touch screen ability offered by Nintendo,” said a representative for Little Orbit. “We know fans have been waiting a long time for this game, but the doubling of available platforms is something fans have been asking for and we are happy that we are able to make it happen.”

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More Young Justice: Legacy content, including the trailer and additional images and details, can be found at the The World’s Finest subsite. A description for the game can be found below.

Based on WB’s animated series airing on Cartoon Network, Young Justice: Legacy is an Action RPG where players control multiple characters in a squad created from 12 possible team members to explore, fight, gather experience, and level up. It will feature both solo and multiplayer missions that follow an epic plotline spanning many locations all across the DC Comics world of Earth-16.

A renowned archaeologist, Dr. Helena Sandsmark, is kidnapped, and the Young Justice team tracks a group of the Light’s most notorious villains around the globe in an effort to rescue her. But when the young heroes discover the Light is exploiting Dr. Sandsmark’s expertise to locate fragments of an ancient statue of legendary power, they must race against time to save the planet from imminent disaster.

Young Justice: Legacy was originally supposed to hit shelves in Early 2013 before it’s first delay, timed with second season of Young Justice. This current delay is its second.

Young Justice: Legacy, released by Little Orbit through Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, will hit all major home consoles and PC on November 19th, 2013. Young Justice: Legacy is based on the recently-concluded Cartoon Network animated series inspired by the DC Comics characters. Stay tuned for further updates here soon at The World’s Finest.

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