After many years of development and delays, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League finally launched earlier this month and it turns out folks’ concerns about the game were largely well-founded. Reviews weren’t great and it didn’t seem like people were rushing to play the co-op live service game. Well, it seems Warner Bros. Discovery is already prepared to throw Suicide Squad under the bus, as they’re admitting the game has “fallen short of our expectations.” These comments came courtesy of WB Discover CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels during the company’s most recent earnings call…
"This year, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, one of our key video game releases in 2024, has fallen short of our expectations since its release earlier in the quarter, setting our games business up for a tough year-over-year comp in Q1.”
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Ouch. Not only is WB Discovery already declaring the game a disappointment, but their comments don’t seem to indicate they have a ton of hope for a turnaround. Year-on-year comparison will indeed be grisly, as last year WB Games scored the #1 title of the year in Hogwarts Legacy. Will this perhaps make WBD reconsider their plans to push the live service model hard? Hogwarts wasn’t really a live service, after all, and it beat the pants off the very GaaS-ified Suicide Squad. We’ll see.
Haven’t been keeping up with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League? I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the game, finding it to be a repetitive trudge in my full review…
“Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has a sprinkling of that classic Rocksteady charm, delivering polished visuals, fluid traversal and combat, and some snappy repartee, but the whole experience is bogged down by dreary, repetitive mission design, empty live service elements, and a feel-bad story that’s mean-spirited to the point of feeling oddly resentful. Perhaps most damning, not even the thing promised in the game’s title – fighting and dispatching the Justice League – ends up being particularly fun or memorable. Those who really want to see what becomes of the Arkhamverse may not be able to resist picking this up, but I suggest waiting for a steep discount before subjecting yourself to this tedious team-up.”
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is available now on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5.
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