This has perhaps been the longest running saga to eventual full reveal of a video game this generation. The number of rumours, reports and leaks about what Rocksteady Studio, the team behind the Batman Arkham Series, have been working on since Arkham Knight brought the series to a close in 2015. We kept hearing it was going to be a Justice League focused game and serving as an extra tease for DC Fandome, Rocksteady did finally unveil what they have been working on – Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League!
The creators of the Batman: Arkham series are back with a brand new action-adventure shooter. The most dangerous villains in the DC Universe have been forced to team up and take on a new mission: Kill the Justice League.
Create Chaos in Metropolis. You are the Suicide Squad. Coming in 2022 to PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.
My Thoughts…..
First reaction has to be the 2022 release date, for a game that has reportedly been in development for at least four of the five years since Arkham Knight, I can only assume the Covid-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on the development of this game for the new generation of consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X alongside PC which brings me to point two, this game will not be coming to Xbox One or PlayStation 4 going by the final screen of the trailer.
Next is the fact the game seems to be set in a Metropolis that has been taken over my Brainiac and his army. We also see a very different take on the Suicide Squad but instantly recognisable voice of Tara Strong voicing Harley Quinn but Captain Boomerang can now teleport wherever he throws his boomerangs, Deadshot has a jetpack and King Shark is not as big as he is usually portrayed.
The trailer shows a Superman doing what he does best in saving someone but when the Suicide Squad stand staring at him wondering who their Alpha Assassination target is which they soon realise, when Superman uses his heat-vision to kill the very person he saved…..the penny drops, Superman is the alpha assassination target!
Following the trailer, Rocksteady then explained that this is a continuation of the Arkham Verse in ways but a new style of gameplay style such as new abilities for each member of the Suicide Squad as well as guns and melee weapons as the squad work to take otu the Justice League. It is explained that this is a Squad based game, playable in co-op or solo with AI squadmates who you can switch between at will.
Fair to say….this is not what I expected to see and I am not sure if I am actually that excited for what has been described or revealed, but it is very early days and there are two more years to release so, yeah…not the big reveal I expected.
Perhaps I am too much of an Arkham purist.
