released to mostly moderate to negative reviews, and according to Warner Bros. Discovery, the divisive game has not performed well.
09.02.2024 - 21:15 / screenrant.com / Harley Quinn / Lex Luthor / Amanda Waller / Glenn Bunn
features several shocking moments throughout its story. The game sees Task Force X, a rag-tag team of supervillains, sent by Amanda Waller to defeat an alien invasion led by Brainiac. Unfortunately, while Brainiac has assumed control of 99% of the city of Metropolis' population, he has also brainwashed most of its heroes, the Justice League, resulting in Waller issuing a kill order on some of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe.
While its gameplay and tone may be different, is the latest game set in Rocksteady's Arkhamverse, being set only five years after the series' last entry,. Much like the other games that came before it, its story makes some bold choices involving some of the most popular DC characters, including some surprising deaths that are sure to have some major repercussions going forward.
Pre-release marketing revealed that although Poison Ivy died absorbing Scarecrow's Fear Toxin and saving Gotham in, she is back in child form in and provides players with elemental-based attacks called "" The game's story goes into more detail about how exactly this happened, stating that Ivy — who prefers to just go by «Ivy» and drop the «Poison» moniker — was found and captured early into her new life and was then raised by Lex Luthor and his team at Lexcorp.
In this time, she was also forced to work for Luthor's company, making weapons with inflictions for them before breaking free during Brainiac's invasion of Metropolis alongside her plant friend, Daphne. This new version of Ivy also has no recollection of Harley Quinn or her past life, but occasionally, over time, she begins to use scientific words and phrases that her older self would have known, commenting that she shouldn't know what that means yet and implying that her memories could come back someday.
Unfortunately, Ivy goes from being forced to work for one person straight into being forced to work for another, as Amanda Waller demands that Task Force X «recruit» her by planting a bomb in her neck. While Deadshot, King Shark, and Harley Quinn object to doing this to a child, Captain Boomerang uses the speed force to do this before their conversation has even begun, which results in the group all taking turns punching him.
Lex Luthor was revealed in his Warsuit in the game's promotional material, but this version of the character doesn't survive long. Upon trying to save Lex Luthor from a brainwashed Flash, Task Force X thought he managed to get the upper hand over the speedster with anti-Speed Force «Decoupler» tech. This technology stunned Flash and opened him up for attack. After unloading a barrage of bullets into a bus containing the stunned Flash, the team believed they had successfully killed their first Justice League member.
released to mostly moderate to negative reviews, and according to Warner Bros. Discovery, the divisive game has not performed well.
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