Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game Arrives on XSX|S and Xbox One on July 1 for Game Pass Ultimate Users - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 June 2021 / 1,651 Views

Developer Digital Eclipse announced Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game will launch for the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One on July 1 for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users. It will launch on July 15 for everyone else as a free-to-play title.

View the gameplay reveal trailer below:

Here is an overview of the game:

The Tune Squad faces the Goon Squad in a wacky basketball beat ’em up!

Back in December 2020, Xbox called all gamers, Space Jam fans and coding enthusiasts to submit their ideas for the new Space Jam: A New Legacy game available first with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. After reviewing submissions from around the world, Xbox and the Digital Eclipse development team selected the ideas and game concepts from two lucky winners, whose ideas have come to life in one of the looniest arcade style challenges around:

As part of his scheme to become an all-powerful digital force, a rogue artificial intelligence named Al-G Rhythm has trapped basketball champion and global icon LeBron James inside the Warner Bros. server.

While plotting to have his Goon Squad square off against LeBron and the Tune Squad in a high-stakes, high-tech basketball game, Al-G locks himself away in a hidden area of cyberspace.

If LeBron, Bugs Bunny, and Lola Bunny can find all three pieces of the “Legacy Code,” they can use it to open up Al-G’s secret lair. But standing in their way is the rogue AI’s robot army… and members of the Goon Squad, The Brow and White Mamba.

Put the hurt on Al-G’s army in this classic 2D brawler, using collectible cards to enlist help from other Tune Squad players. Will the Tune Squad’s teamwork be enough to stop Al-G Rhythm’s plans?

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.

7 Comments

JWeinCom (on 23 June 2021)

Makes a game about a movie about a basketball star playing basketball to save the world. Game is a beat em up.

... ok then.

Darwinianevolution (on 24 June 2021)

I find this approach very lazy. Insteado of trying to make a basketball game with wacky cartoony rules and mechanics, they made a generic beat'em up. It kind of reminds me of the new Shaq Fu in a lot of ways.

Mr Puggsly (on 23 June 2021)

Pffft... those graphics look worse than the PS1/Saturn Space Jam game.

dane007 Mr Puggsly (on 23 June 2021)

It's the art style. Graphics is not everything

-1

Ganoncrotch (on 24 June 2021)

Seeing a PR blurb which describes the game as "Wacky" makes me think that the person who wrote it thinks that electricity is a fade which has no mainstream value.