'Suicide Squad' is vapid, repetitive, and gross... [Review]

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Intro: 0:00
What It Is And Isn't (NO SPOILERS): 1:22
Boss Fights (NO SPOILERS) 7:19
Boss Fights (SPOILERS): 8:29
Performance Issues: 22:15
Endgame And Conclusion: 29:15
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is an upcoming action-adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Games. The game is scheduled to release for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S on February 2, 2024.

Kill the Justice League is the fifth main installment in the Batman: Arkham series, taking place five years after the events of Batman: Arkham Knight, and the first not to feature Batman as the main protagonist, though the character still appears, posthumously voiced by Kevin Conroy in his final performance as Batman. Based on the DC Comics supervillain/anti-hero team the Suicide Squad, the game revolves around the titular team of super-criminals, who are assembled by Amanda Waller and sent to Metropolis to stop the alien invader Brainiac and save the members of the Justice League brainwashed by him.
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[LukeStephensTV]

Somehow, this game is even less interesting, offers less content, and insults fans even more than I expected...

[StrickenBiged]

“Hi, I’m Brainiac, the smartest being in existence. My troops and vehicles have these glowing purple weak spots, but they are decoys, I swear, don’t bother shooting them. Also, when I face you myself, I 100% am not going to copy the battle tactics of a foe that you have already bested, because I am really smart, so don’t expect that, because it’s not going to happen. I’m really smart.”

[wolfgarward]

Now I get why it took them 7 years to make this. They've been waiting for the lead writer to graduate from the elementary school.

[BLUEMOONCAM]

I also hate the plot holes for instance Harley thinks planting a bomb in kid Ivy is messed up yet her and Joker gave a 5yr old Titan claiming it to be medicine if u listen to the audio tapes in Batgirl DLC. This universe's version of Harley is meant to be messed up and evil yet there so desperate in turning her into the mainstream anti-hero version we keep seeing lately and it does not work.

[BrokenFingerParadise]

I feel like they could have avoided at least some of the controversy by just saying this is a different universe than the arkham games.

Obviously after playing a trilogy of games set in that world and with those characters it's understandable that it leaves a little sour taste in your mouth to say "Oh, off screen everything you did in those games fell apart afterwards, Brainiac is in charge now and you should go kill Batman"

Like using the 'Arkhamverse' as a selling point only works if you are paying respect to the games that came before.

[ssryder]

When I first started the brainiac fight and he turned into flash I thought “yeah ok he’s obviously gonna be a combination of all the JL. Kinda lame, kinda repetitive but whatever” and then…. It was just the flash

[shadushio]

For me, this is a 'Don't waste your time and money', not even a 'Wait for a sale'.

[Dave_H]

This is what happens when mega corporations decide a games identity rather than passionate devs. They always seem choose live service money pit garbage over fun, good and inspired.

[micheljolicoeur]

Ship of Theseus - The co-founders left Rocksteady Games in 2022 and took with them the most talented developers. Warner Bros hired whoever they could to get the game out the door. End of story.

[stevenarnett]

I remember day dreaming about what rocksteadys next game would be back when Arkham knight came out.
Little did I know we would have to wait 9 years for a mean spirited, live service, looter shooter

[MTMuppet]

You know what would’ve been a far more compelling narrative? An old, heroic Batman coming out of hiding to help the Justice League fight off the Brainiac invasion.

[MTMuppet]

One of the most egregious aspects of the game is it’s complete disregard of the Arkham universe, Harley Quinn being a perfect example. She lambasts Batman for causing criminals “long term emotional damage”. In this universe Harley has kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of people…

Either the writers never played a previous Arkham game, or they simply disregarded the franchise’s history in order to tell their story. Regardless, it’s disrespectful and a complete failure of writing and storytelling.

[Mykahaia]

The thing that makes it worst for Batman's Death is that it's canonically the Arkham Batman...until this year he supposedly died in a heroic way in Arkham Knight, but they "revived" him explaining away his death as "oh he faked it and joined the Justice League" and then killed him again in the worst way possible...

[shreyasnatarajan]

It takes them 6 years to make one of the best trilogies of all time and 9 years to make one of the worst looter shooters of all time. 😂

[Viceking]

This isn’t how it happened.
This isn’t how the Batman died.

[WarNvrChanges]

“It’s not fair to hold this game accountable for not being what we wanted it to be.” It’s also not fair for them to expect me to buy this game either 🤷🏻‍♂️

[stephanie_jjb]

I do not understand how this game can manage to shit the bed in graphics, gameplay, online connectivity, storywriting, world building and pleasing fans all at once. It's actually kind of impressive.

[MrEujoo]

Game devs and publishers are saying that making games is becaming more expensive yet new live service games keep looking cheaper and cheaper

[lyndonjohnson]

The only explanation for why Brainiac would choose to mimic the Flash in the boss battle is that Brainiac wanted to be peed on too.

[senecauk]

At no point during any of the gameplay footage of the boss fights could I tell what the hell was going on. It is just bright garish colours everywhere.