Summary
2024 has already been a pretty strange year for the video game industry. Among discussions ofXbox potentially going multi-platformand near-constant Nintendo Switch 2 rumors, the games industry has seen a number of high-profile releases over the last month and a half, some of which have been surprise hits, and some of which have been surprising disappointments.Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis a true oddity, landing on either side of the spectrum depending on who’s asked.
For the last year or so, many Rocksteady fans have held a strong belief thatSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis a waste of the studio’s talent, trading in a concise, compelling 20-hour DC story for a live-service looter-shooter that plans to live forever. And while many fans still hold this belief, some have changed their tune after finally getting their hands onSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, being able to see its merits even despite the game’s flaws. But as is the case with every live-service game, the real test forSuicide Squadbegins in a few weeks with the release of the game’s first season of free content, and Rocksteady might already be burning the candle at both ends in that regard.
Right now,Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s live-service elementsand the game as a whole are actually in a much better position than some similar titles, at least when it comes to the technical side of things. WhileSuicide Squadplayers have experienced a number of minor bugs and technical hiccups, the game is generally well-polished, likely thanks to the extra year of development it was granted. It’s too often the case that a live-service title spends its first few months simply ironing out the issues that should have never made it into the final game, to begin with, but thankfully, it seems as though Rocksteady can skip over this process altogether, allowing it to focus solely on producing new content.
Currently, Rocksteady is promising a new playable character, a new playable environment, new missions, new boss fights, new weapons, and new themed gear sets every season. Those who have already playedSuicide Squad’s base game will understand just how much of a hefty promise that all is, with Rocksteady essentially saying that it’s going to add or remake about a quarter ofSuicide Squad’s base contentevery few months. WithSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguetaking nearly a decade to make, this seems like an impossible task.
Though Rocksteady already has strong foundations to work from, creating even just a new playable character is no small feat. Rocksteady will need to make a whole new set of character-specific animations, create unique traversal mechanics, create new skill trees, record new lines of dialogue, and try to integrate the character naturally into the game’s narrative via new cutscenes, which take a whole lot of time to create in their own right.
According to Rocksteady’s current plan, the developer has a frankly alarming amount of work ahead of it, and whileSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguecould greatly benefit from all of this free content, the likelihood of this coming to fruition seems a bit uncertain right now.Suicide Squadreceived some very mixed reviews, and its current active player count isn’t looking too great either. While receiving new content could saveSuicide Squad, the amount of work that’s required to do so might not be worth it in the long run.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
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Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
