WARNER BROS. DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“WATCHMEN: JUSTICE IS COMING” ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAME TO LAUNCH ON THE iPHONE AND iPOD TOUCH THIS MARCH"

Burbank, Calif., March 2, 2009 – Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today announced Watchmen: Justice is Coming, an online multiplayer game for the iPhone and iPod Touch based on the upcoming film Watchmen, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Legendary Pictures.  Available from the iTunes App Store this March, Watchmen: Justice is Coming will take iPhone gaming to a new level allowing players to battle in realistic 3D environments and visualize changes to the world in real time.

Watchmen: Justice is Coming is a multiplayer online adventure fighting game developed by Last Legion Games exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  The game will use “cloudMMO,” Last Legion's patent pending cloud based multiplayer technology that leverages Amazon.com Web Services allowing players to adventure through the incredible world of Watchmen.  Players will experience an ever-changing gaming environment, chat with other players and participate in street battles.

In Watchmen: Justice is Coming, players bring their own unique form of justice to New York City in the 1970s before the film’s central story unfolds.   Masked adventuring has been outlawed.  During this critical time period, crime is rampant and average citizens must take matters into their own hands to survive.  Players create their personal avatar and enter the rain-soaked city of Manhattan.  The dark metropolitan world is a vast network of interlocking and overlapping spaces that include: the seedy and saturated neon Red Light District; a run down Financial District and its dark waterfront; the downtown back-alleys of Lower Manhattan; a wide open City Park; and more.

An original story inspired by director Zack Snyder’s big screen version of Watchmen, which is based on the graphic novel illustrated and co-created by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen: Justice is Coming leads players on an immersive adventure inside the depths of the Watchmen universe.  Average citizens evolve into fully equipped costumed avengers by completing unique challenges, exploring the universe and battling enemies.

Watchmen fans can visit www.watchmenjusticeiscoming.com for updates on the game and to read Last Legion’s blog. 

Source: http://www.watchmenjusticeiscoming.com/pr1.html

Source 2: http://www.watchmenjusticeiscoming.com/

Casey Schreiner, host of G4tv.com got an early look at the game said that
“Watchmen: Justice is Coming is really impressive, I didn’t know
the iPhone could do stuff like this.

WATCHMEN: Justice is Coming is an online role playing game developed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game is inspired by the highly anticipated WATCHMEN film released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 6th 2009. Explore the incredible Watchmen universe in the year 1975, where crime is rampant and average citizens take matters into their own hands. Create your own unique character and begin adventuring through the dark and gritty streets of New York City while following an original Watchmen inspired storyline through a real-time 3D world.  Discover hidden artifacts and level up your character by completing story objectives, defeating criminals and challenging other players to battle in a dynamic strategy fighting game. Rich real-time 3D environments with 1000’s of other player-characters in-game Create your own Watchmen avatar with unique look, skills, and costumes Battle online foes through strategic 3D combat engine Socialize with other online characters with in-game chat feature Unique player identity with persistent game-play progress and stats Adventure through 5 vast environments completing story objectives (Downtown, Red Light District, Cemetery, Financial District, City Park)

A lot of great quality games on the iPhone. Should VGC start covering mobile games?