Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has “fallen short” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s expectations.
09.02.2024 - 12:00 / mmorpg.com / Kevin Conroy / Harley Quinn / Amanda Waller / Rocksteady Studios
Imagine a world where your worst nightmares have come true. The apocalypse has come, and people all around are dying or disappearing. Now imagine that the peacekeepers and freedom fighters are the source of all the chaos. In a world gone mad, almost all the people you are accustomed to relying on for help have gone rogue. Such is the premise of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.
Suicide Squad brings back a lot of familiar faces to anyone with any experience with the IP. Rocksteady has confirmed that more playable characters and post-credit content is being planned for Suicide Squad but everyone in the main campaign is available already. Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and yes, Amanda Waller are back in a new adventure that shows us that villains can be heroes with the right…motivation. If that motivation happens to come from a remote bomb inside their heads, so be it.
Suicide Squad had a bit of a tumultuous journey to release. Initially, the launch window was set for 2022 but was delayed to May of 2023. However, that release date would get delayed again in April of 2023 in favor of a February 2nd, 2024 release date. Additionally, Long time Batman voice actor, Kevin Conroy died of intestinal cancer during the production of Suicide Squad. If that wasn’t bad enough, players who paid $100 for early access by purchasing the Digital Deluxe edition were locked out of servers for several hours due to a glitch that Rocksteady had to investigate and fix.
Let’s get the good stuff, and I mean the really good stuff, out of the way first. The campaign for Suicide Squad pits anti-hero against hero gone bad. The big baddie, an alien named Brainiac, has taken over the minds and bodies of Earth’s finest superheroes. It’s up to some prisoners from Arkham to save the day against their own will before the human race becomes extinct. Amanda Waller sees no way to make this happen without the death of the members of The Justice League and so orders the Suicide Squad to kill them.
From a creative storytelling viewpoint, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is nothing short of spectacular. Some may feel that the idea of heroes going rogue under the influence of an alien brainwash is a bit trope-y. Personally, I was thrilled that they weren’t ignoring the superheroes to give us yet another anti-hero story. In the movies, the Suicide Squad is assembled by Amanda Waller, an anti-hero in her own right, but I spent the whole time wondering why she didn’t just call in the good guys. Why manipulate a group of prisoners into doing your dirty work when there is an actual group of heroes already committed to keeping Earth safe? Suicide Squad takes the Justice
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has “fallen short” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s expectations.
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has failed to meet publisher Warner Bros' expectations.
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There was a moment in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League where I set down my controller, wiped the tears from my eyes, looked at my TV and said aloud, “How. Dare. You.” I got up, took the dog outside, grabbed something to drink, and whatever else I could think to waste a little time. I just needed a moment. I couldn’t believe that a game about otherwise expendable prisoners being coerced into para-military service to save the world could make me both laugh and tear up during the same 15-hour campaign.
has a variety of game systems and tricks beginners can take advantage of during their mission to take down Brainiac's forces. While the challenges of this game are not too difficult to face, there are some obstacles you could still run into. Your experience in Metropolis could be much smoother if you discover different mechanics designed to help your squad.
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.