Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Reveals Gameplay & Details Aplenty; Pre-Orders Available Now

Warner Bros. Games and Rocksteady released an extensive behind-the-scenes look at Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and opened pre-orders for the game.

[Christopher]

I'm not seeing any update to the gameplay here that brought all the past criticism. People who don't use guns now use guns and you kill for tons of loot drops. It's use of an IP to sell gameplay that doesn't match up with 3 out of 4 of the characters. This is 100% selling story and the 'open' world to try and hide that fact.

Side note: Ah, good ole Captain Boomerang and his teleport-to-boomerang ability when he's not shotgunning up the city.

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah like this delay was obviously to see if the criticism that it was facing back during the reveal would fizzle out

They knew if there was a delay people would automatically assume there would be improvements and possibly “fixing” the game but clearly they’ve done nothing but polish what was already there

They are using these videos to focus on story to mask the live service side of it

[RaidenBlack]

Kind of heart breaking to see, the studio, responsible for making 3 near-perfect super hero games is trying to sell a GAAS game which now looks like a Fortnite mod ... (after its initial announcement, Suicide squad was one of my top anticipated games, [since it was from Rocksteady], until they showed the damn gameplay, yuck)
The current damage would've been less if they released another SP game in-between Arkham Knight and Suicide Squad ... or atleast WB-Montreal's Gotham Knights turned out better, but nah ....
Now only Monolith (F.E.A.R & Mordor) can save DC games' reputation with their SP Wonder Woman game ...

[poppatron]

Yeah, it’s like they heard the criticism and responded with their explanation for why all the characters had crazy new powers and basically have the same moveset.

Honestly, for me, it made the game look a little more fun. I feel like when the reviews come out I’m not anticipating the blood bath I once was. But at the same time I’d be lying if I’d I said I was excited for it or even interested really.

And I kind of get the idea that it wouldn’t really make sense for these characters to go toe to toe with the justice league without some kind of power boost. And traversal in such a huge city would basically come down to a gta style vehicular affair.

They really could’ve just used different characters to make it work though. It’s like they decided on the suicide squad (or WB did) and then just pushed that square peg through a very round whole and this is what came out the other end.

[rokos]

I agree maybe they delayed the game to do some bug fixes so that it doesn't launch in a broken unplayable state, which would severely affect the review and metacritic scores.

[Kaii]

I'm still seeing this shark character with the wrong loadout.
Hopefully, they have some competition In the Q1 window because nobody should spend a single cent on this turd dish.

[P_Bomb]

I’m rooting for Brainiac. Kill ‘em all green man. 😭

[Leeroyw]

I won't do GAAS ever again.

[Knightofelemia]

I love DC but I am on the fence with this game hope Darkseid makes an appearance.

[isarai]

Looks crap, no thanks 👍

[SimpleSlave]

Can't believe they're still insisting in giving guns to every character. But why?

Is it too early for a "Gotham Knights redeemed" argument? I mean, at least GK stuck to what the characters usually use as weapons, so...That has to count for something, right?

lol

[CrimsonWing69]

Gotham Knights looks 100 times better than this. It may have been some R/C Cola version of Arkham where you could tell they may have initially tried making it GaaS before freaking out and trying to Frankenstein it into a traditional game. Credit where credit’s due it had awesome set piece moments. I actually enjoyed it to be quite, frank. However, I’m not oblivious to the fact that it’s nowhere near the caliber the Arkham series was.

This Suicide Squad game looks like Crackdown and Fortnite. The world looks boring with no life. I struggled to sit through the video they just posted. It’s boring and derivative looking and how they have the audacity to make it a GaaS game, but try their hardest to word things that try to fool you into thinking it’s not is abhorrent.

I hope this flops hard. I really do and I hope the industry takes note if they want to keep going down this path.

[SimpleSlave]

Agree. You can see all the disgusting, clingy, dingle berries all over Gotham Knights from the obvious gAAS exposure. At least they thought better of it and gave us a glimpse of what it could've been. So here's hoping that if there's a sequel they go in full Arkham style instead. Which would be actually pretty cool.

It's funny, but you know what Suicide Squad reminds me of? Sunset Overdrive. A filthy gAAS sequel to Sunset Overdrive with Fornite-like skin of DC characters. And admittedly, the traversal and movements do look fun, just not for a Suicide Squad nor Arkam style game.

This would've been better off as a Sunset/Crackdown/Prototype/Fus e like IP instead. Especially without the gAAS stank all over it, of course.

Meh.

[FlameWater]

Ignore it so it dies faster

[Games1st]

Would like to see preorder numbers.

[CobraKai]

Kevin Conroy’s last outing as Batman is the only thing that’s making me consider this. It still looks incredibly generic and I don’t like WB’s focus on their games being GAAS.

[-Foxtrot]

Kind of sad they had a project, his last time as Batman and they wasted it on this

Imagine if they just did Batman Beyond with Bruce as a mentor, it would have been a passing of the torch and his last role would have been perfect.

[CobraKai]

That’s too perfect. But it’s WB.

[TricksterArrow]

I see some improvement, but I agree that all characters feel the same during gameplay segments: a generic TPS soldier with high transversal capabilities.

[kingeliran]

Combat gameplay looks like fortnite (not in a good way.. )

[staticall]

Pinata enemies look awful, every hero have same-y traversal (also, is it just me or did the use some similar traversal techniques from Gotham Knights), uses guns, don't feel unique at all (as they should); don't expect much from the story, after seeing that powerful equipment being kept behind a regular glass with no one protecting it. In Arkham City, you had to fight the enemies and do some basic traversal as Bruce before you had access to Batman costume. And keep in mind, this trailer was supposed to be about [Story].

Fighting looks just so basic and they act like they're proud of this. In the video, at 17:44 - special effects overload, no feedback, just jump around and shoot. Looks like any mediocre live service game to me.

They do not show any puzzle solving, no unique character abilities, no nothing. Add a title "Fortnite: Suicide Squad pack" at the end of the trailer and it would fit surprisingly well.

And this game still have battle pass and macrotransactions, because they want even more money from you. Nah, not worth time or money. Such a shame such talent and so much time and money wasted on this. Feel like i shouldn't be excited about anything WB touches anymore, they turn everything into live service BS with in-game stores.

[mkis007]

Id be surprised if this finds any success. Someone wanted gas and they made a gas game with a dc skin. Doomed to fail. Nothing makes sense to the characters because they designed the characters around the world instead of the proper way around.

[anast]

It's DOA...people have already moved on before its release.

[ModsDoBetter]

How the mighty have fallen, eh Rocksteady?
Looks no different to the gameplay that garnered backlash a few months back AND the deluxe edition comes with a Battle Pass - they haven't changed a thing.

[bangoskank]

David Zaslav is the pos single handedly responsible for ruining WB games: https://www.forbes.com/site...

Gamers who actually care about the fate of offline, single-layer games should unite and boycott this asshat.

[gleepot]

this looks really fun, i wish it wasnt a GaaS but id still like to try it

[Rikimaru-00]

this don't looks good at all, i'm pass on this one. they should of make a daredevil or someone else. this looks way boring.

[YourMommySpoils]

They really killed Harley Queen for me. This is the ugliest version of Harley possibly created. Couldn't they just use Arkham's original model.

[Reborn]

Its like they didnt see what happened to Avengers.