Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is presented from a third-person perspective and its open world design allows players, either individually or cooperatively, to freely roam Metropolis. The game was announced in August 2020 and was scheduled to be released in 2022, but was delayed multiple times. It had an early access period for owners of the deluxe edition that began on January 29, 2024.
Kill the Justice League was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on February 2, 2024. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its story and gameplay, but criticized its repetition and live service elements. The game failed to meet the sales expectations of Warner Bros. Games.
Each character has access to three weapon classes, with each class being shared by two of the four characters available at launch. Each character has a unique melee combat style and traversal method, such as Harley Quinn who uses a bludgeon and travels using Batman's grapple gun. A skill tree progression system is included, allowing players to re-spec into different skills at any point throughout the game for different build experimentation.[9] Post-launch content is set to be released in the form of "seasons", with frequent free content updates featuring new locations, activities and playable characters.[10]
Arkham Asylum inmates Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Belle Reve prisoner King Shark are freed from captivity by A.R.G.U.S. director Amanda Waller and forced to join her Task Force X, the "Suicide Squad". After miniature bombs are injected into their heads, Waller sends the squad into Metropolis, which is under attack by Brainiac. When they raid the Hall of Justice, a brainwashed Green Lantern attacks them and explains that Brainiac plans to terraform Earth. The Flash intervenes to rescue the squad but is gravely wounded and captured by a brainwashed Batman. The squad retreats to the Hall of Justice and encounters Wonder Woman, the only member of the Justice League who was not brainwashed. She refuses to work with them as Waller orders the squad to kill the Justice League and end their threat.
Waller has the squad scour Metropolis for weapons and technology that can be used against the Justice League, as well as forcibly recruiting other villains into their ranks. They attempt to apprehend Lex Luthor to obtain his knowledge, but he is killed by a now-brainwashed Flash; the squad narrowly escape thanks to Wonder Woman's intervention. She subdues the Flash to find a way to stop Brainiac, with him replying that the only way is to kill her friends. The squad is supplied with anti-Speed Force technology, which they use to kill the Flash. Green Lantern arrives and forces the squad to flee through one of Brainiac's portals. The squad finds themselves transported to Earth-2, an alternate Earth that has already been destroyed by Brainiac. They meet an alternate version of Luthor, nicknamed Lex-2, who reveals that he had been collaborating with his Earth-1 counterpart to prepare for Brainiac's invasion.
Lex-2 transports the squad back to their dimension and warns that Waller will have them killed as her Earth-2 version did to her own squad. The squad breaks into Wayne Enterprises' secret bank vault, where they find Wonder Woman crafting a Kryptonite-based shield. After she leaves, Lex-2 secures Yellow Lantern batteries that Batman was keeping as a contingency against Green Lantern and gives them to the squad. He reveals that Waller has no intention of granting the squad their freedom, either letting them get killed or otherwise using Brainiac's mind-control technology on them. The squad confronts and kills Green Lantern, temporarily disabling a shield protecting Brainiac's ship. Waller attempts to call a nuclear strike on Brainiac, willing to sacrifice the squad, but a brainwashed Superman thwarts her plans.
Wonder Woman and Superman battle each other as the squad attempts to escort Waller to safety inside the Hall of Justice. Wonder Woman stabs Superman with a shard of Kryptonite, but he survives and kills her before retreating to Brainiac's ship. Lex-2 theorizes that Brainiac changed Superman's DNA to be more resistant to Kryptonite and, through Boomerang, suggests to an oblivious Waller that they capture Batman so he can devise a countermeasure. The squad captures Batman in his hideout and takes him to Lex-2, who develops Gold Kryptonite to combat Superman. With no further use for Batman, the squad takes him to an open area, where Harley kills him. Superman is lured out and subsequently killed with the squad's Gold Kryptonite weapons. However, Brainiac captures them, intending to brainwash them to be replacements for the League. Lex-2 rescues them and reveals that he has learned there are thirteen different Brainiacs spread across different dimensions working together to take over the entire multiverse.
Waller and Lex-2 coordinate to teleport the squad to the first Brainiac's location on Earth-2 to confront him directly, where he proceeds to mimic the Flash's appearance and abilities. After a lengthy battle, the squad subdues and captures Brainiac, allowing Lex-2 to extract the information in his brain. The extraction ends up killing Brainiac, with the primary Brainiac's ship reacting by partially exploding. The squad prepares to hunt down the twelve Brainiacs remaining across the multiverse.
Season of the Joker
Following the defeat of the first Brainiac, the primary Brainiac begins to phase parts of other worlds into Earth-1 and enhances his troops. Waller sends the squad to "Joker Earth", an alternate universe where Brainiac terraformed Metropolis using the DNA of the Joker, who killed his own Suicide Squad and A.R.G.U.S. forces in a failed suicide bombing attempt to kill Brainiac. The squad battles the second Brainiac, who takes the form of Green Lantern, and defeats him. The squad then captures the Joker and takes him back to Earth-1, where he agrees to join them in the ongoing war against Brainiac's forces. As the battle continues on Earth-1, Brainiac adapts his forces by infusing them with Green Lantern's DNA, giving them his powers. The squad returns to Joker Earth once more to confront the third Brainiac, who takes the form of Superman, and emerges victorious.
Season of Freeze
Waller establishes contact with Victoria Frias / Mrs. Freeze, a variant of Mr. Freeze from a world invaded by Brainiac, to enlist her help in stopping the invasion on Earth-1 and recovering the Flash, who is revealed to still be alive after his signal was detected on Brainiac's Skull Ship. The squad is deployed to clear out various incursions on Freeze's world, dubbed "Frozen Earth". Afterward, they are tasked with escorting Freeze and her cryogenically frozen wife, Nora, to Earth-1. Having ensured Nora's safety, Freeze agrees to join the squad. The squad confronts the fourth Brainiac, who uses a combination of the Flash and Superman's powers to combat them but is ultimately defeated. The squad successfully retrieves the Flash, uncorrupted, and returns to Earth-1, where the latter is put into stasis for recovery.
Development
A video game based on the Suicide Squad was announced by then DC Comics chief creative officer Geoff Johns in July 2010.[24] In February 2012, he elaborated that the game was in development, adding that "Because of the concept, you have a game where any of the lead characters can conceivably die and it's not a stunt. Some really cool story could come out of that."[25] The formation of the Suicide Squad was teased at the end of Batman: Arkham Origins (2013)—developed by WB Games Montréal—which featured a post-credits scene in which Deathstroke is asked by Amanda Waller to join the team, and in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (2013), in which Deadshot and Bronze Tiger join the team with Bane under consideration.[26][27] In the years since Batman: Arkham Knight (2015) was released, there had been rumors suggesting that WB Games Montréal was working on a Suicide Squad game, but no official announcement was made from the development team or publisher.[28] In December 2016, Jason Schreier from Kotaku revealed that the title was cancelled.[29]
Rocksteady, the creator of the Batman: Arkham franchise, was initially rumored to be working on a Superman-themed game, which they later debunked.[30] Rocksteady announced Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in August 2020,[31] with the first trailer for the game premiering at DC FanDome on August 22, 2020. As the game is set in the "Arkhamverse", plot threads established in the Batman: Arkham series, including the Joker's death in Batman: Arkham City (2011) and the public revelation of Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne in Arkham Knight, would continue in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.[32] The Los Angeles–based company Unbroken Studios assisted Rocksteady in the development of the game.[33]Sweet Baby Inc. contributed to the game's script.[34]
Following the game's release and subsequent failure, anonymous sources detailed a troubled development process that included shifting priorities, managerial bottlenecks, and a culture of "toxic positivity." The game originally focused on melee combat before moving to gunplay. Rocksteady co-founder Sefton Hill also tried to introduce a complex vehicle system late in development before it was ultimately scrapped.[35]
Release
On March 23, 2022, Rocksteady announced that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had been delayed from its initial 2022 launch window to early 2023.[36] At The Game Awards 2022, the release date was revealed to be May 26, along with the announcement that Batman would appear in the game, posthumously voiced by Kevin Conroy in what was marketed as his final performance as the character following his death on November 10, 2022.[37][38][39][40]
On February 23, 2023, during a PlayStation State of Play and a separate FAQ, Rocksteady confirmed the game would require an internet connection at all times, have a battle pass, and is set to receive post-launch content such as new playable characters, missions and weapons.[10][41] On 8 December 2023, Rocksteady announced that an offline mode will be added to the game after launch.[42]
On April 13, 2023, Rocksteady announced that the game had been delayed again to 2 February 2024.[43] The Epic Games Store version, however, was delayed to March 5, 2024, then later to March 26, 2024, for unspecified reasons.[44]
On January 29, 2024, the game was released 72 hours as early access for owners of the deluxe edition on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Later that day, servers were taken down for several hours to fix a bug that caused players' story progress to be fully complete upon starting the game,[45] with developers later giving affected players in-game currency in the way of an apology.[46]
Four additional playable Squad members are set to be introduced during the game's post-launch seasons, starting with an alternate reality version of the Joker, which was released on March 28.[5][22] Warner Bros. Games confirmed it will complete the game's four-season roadmap and Rocksteady will continue to support the game through at least the first year.[47] Season 2, featuring the addition of Mrs. Freeze, was announced on July 3, with a release date of July 11,[23] but was delayed shortly before release to July 25.[6]
Press previews in January 2024 were "overwhelmingly negative", according to Kotaku's John Walker and VG247's Sherif Saed, with the game further suffering from bugs and server issues.[46][67][68][69] It was also noted that many outlets were not sent review codes before the game's release.[69][70] In an interview with BBC's Newsbeat, Eurogamer writer Victoria Phillips Kennedy said she found the situation to withhold codes "slightly unusual".[69] Both Kennedy and Saed speculated the decision was in response to the previews,[67] while Chris Carter of Destructoid felt the technical issues had also played a part.[68] Some noted that no outlet was entitled to a review code,[67][71] and that similar circumstances for other games had occurred before.[71]
Writing for IGN, Simon Cardy called the plot a "genuinely good DC comics story", but criticized the repetitive gameplay and "tired and dull" mechanics.[57]Push Square's Aaron Bayne concluded that while he found the game fun and better than other live service games, it was still a lesser product than the Arkham games.[61] In Forbes, Paul Tassi singled out the campaign as a point of criticism, stating that it is "not good. And gets increasingly worse as time goes on it". He praised the graphical fidelity on display in cutscenes, as well as the combat mechanics.[72]
More positively, Video Games Chronicle's Jordan Middler concluded that the game was "much better than the marketing would have you believe", enjoying the writing and gameplay, but believing it was let down by its live service elements.[64] Zack Zwiezen for Kotaku also concurred, expressing that the game was fun and well-written, though criticizing the repetitive mission design and live service endgame that he thought soured the ending.[73]
Batman's portrayal in Kevin Conroy's final video game role as the character was highlighted. Polygon's Michael McWhertor wrote that Batman's presence was not only felt throughout the game, but that his depiction was in keeping with prior entries, particular praising Conroy's performance.[74] Conversely, writing in IGN, Jesse Schedeen opined that he considered Rocksteady's handling of Batman poor, describing it as a waste of potential compared to how he was last seen in Arkham Knight.[75]
Batman's fate also drew backlash from some fans who claimed it was disrespectful, both as a sendoff and to Conroy's legacy.[76][77][78] Tassi felt the response an overreaction given the comic book nature of the game and therefore ability to handwave decisions in this medium.[79]Den of Geek's Matthew Byrd criticized the idea that the game's creative decisions should have been changed because of Conroy's death, while also partly linking the controversy to online culture wars seeking to depict the game as "woke".[78]
Tassi further criticized the game's first DLC season introducing the Joker for its lack of content and story, as well as the extensive "grinding" process to unlock the character, calling it "one of the worst live season launches I have ever seen."[80]
Sales
While declining to give a sales figure, Warner Bros. Discovery chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels confirmed in an earnings call in February 2024 that the game had failed to meet the company's expectations financially and would lead to a "tough year-over-year comp in Q1" for the game's division of the company.[81] In May 2024, Warner Bros. revealed that it had taken a $200 million loss on the game.[35]
Prequel comic
A prequel comic titled Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum was originally scheduled to release on May 30, 2023, four days after the game was originally set to release, but was delayed to October 2023, and delayed again to February 6, 2024. Its story takes place between the events of Arkham Knight and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, and explains how Amanda Waller took control of Arkham Asylum and recruited Task Force X for their mission to kill the Justice League.[82]
Notes
^Those who pre-order the Deluxe Edition received early access to the game on January 30, 2024. The Epic Games Store version of the game was delayed to March 26, 2024.
^This version of Deadshot is African-American, who also claims that the Deadshot who appeared in previous Batman: Arkham games was an imposter. In-game dialogue suggests the previous Deadshot is a multiversal variant.
^Yin-Poole, Wesley (February 23, 2024). "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 'Has Fallen Short of Our Expectations', Warner Bros. Says". IGN. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024. Retrieved February 23, 2024. "This year, Suicide Squad, 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," Wiedenfels said.
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