Wait you fight The Justice League just by shooting at them? Wouldn't it make more sense for Amanda Waller to somehow obtain Batman's contingency plans for dealing with each individual member and having the boss fights play out more like combat puzzles? That would actually make it more believable that Suicide Squad can take down Justice League.

Batman one hit KO'ing Harley twice in the original Arkham series is exactly what a fight between him and the rest of the suicide Squad would go if Rocksteady follow their own canon.

The visual noise is wild. After watching this for 20 minutes, I couldn't tell you what the basic enemies look like at all

I refuse to even consider this game canon to the Batman Arkham universe.

It’s wild how all 4 characters are PERFECT representations of different video game classes (brute, sniper, glass canon and jack of all trades) yet they chose to make all of them play so similarly. Talk about a missed opportunity.

Suicide Squad provides a robust selection of characters to play as such as Captain Sniper Rifle Sniper Rifleshot King Shotgun And beloved fan favorite Harley SMG

I appreciate you saying its a fake Deadshot after Rocksteady had the nerve to say the Deadshot in the prior Arkham games was an "imposter". No the Arkham games is the real one, then Will Smith stole his armor/gimmick.

I remember five to ten years ago, jokes and memes being made about how games were eventually going to be oversaturated with screen clutter and loot boxes. And now life imitates art, and we're worse for it.

I think suicide squad 2 film addressed this pretty well. The suicide squad is better off put against regular unpowered people , who the hell would think boomerang or Harley could save the world from supernatural monsters.

Executive: "Tell me...what made the Arkham series so good?" Developer: "Well, players got access to all of Batman's arsenal and were able to develop as the superhero over the course of the game, getting upgrades and accessing new parts of the Asylum/City. The setting was subtle, quiet, required some problem solving to traverse, and players could go at their own pace to find all of its secrets. It was a slow burn, but rewarding in itself." Executive: "I see. Makes sense why they were so loved by gamers. Let's do the opposite of all of that now."

Why on earth wasn't Harley and boomerang melee focused? It would have given dead shot a more unique playstyle. Shark is fine because he does feel slightly different than deadshot. But giving everyone guns was a ginormous mistake.

I wouldn't be surprised if some "Live Service Psychologist" advisor gave them tips on how to make the whole combat full of colorful popping numbers and slot-machine-like effects and sounds to draw in mostly the crowd that like to gamble and spend money. They even have literal slot-machine-rolls and casino symbols....

I still have no idea why this wasn’t just its own thing like Gotham Knights, there was no reason to set this in the Arkhamverse.

This game will be an afterthought before the month is over

It's always sad when a project comes out and confirms the version of a studio you loved is dead.

So why is the Justice League so small? Where's Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Shazaam, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Vixen, Plastic Man, Cyborg and the rest? It really feels like there was no one from DC comics consulting or story editing this ame.

I've only seen the Batman spoilers, I didn't realise this is part of the Arkham universe... Jesus, what a way to nuke an IP like that.

This gameplay looks like the epitome of what I would expect if the developers were trying their best to appease a dopamine fiending, ADHD, low attention span, sensory dulled teenager. So, yeah, I guess they are probably hitting their demographic in 2024.

The sooner everyone realizes that the owners of these IPs actually hate the source material, the sooner we can all stop giving them money.

This truly was one of the games of all time. It had graphics. It had characters. It had sound. Truly a game that now exists.

Suicide Squad is essentially everything wrong about the video game industry all rolled into one. If I want to run around an open world and scale buildings, I'll just play Crackdown, Prototype, Infamous, etc.

I like how they screwed up the introduction of the IP to the mainstream with Suicide Squad 2016 Redeemed it with The Suicide Squad 2021 Then brought it back down with whatever this is

What’s with all the numbers on the screen? And WTF is that HUD?

It's worth noting Asylum and City were written by Paul Dini. Rocksteady never fared as well writing in house

Someone in the studio took the Ubisoft UI meme seriously.

Why does EVERY game need to be a loot based shooter with tacked on RPG skill trees, arbitrary character classes, big damage numbers written in Impact font, and weapon effects like “do 1.5% additional frost damage to robotic enemies when below 20% health”? I’m so tired of this stuff. Make your game fun first and you won’t have to fill it with a bunch of artificial incentives.

I think that you forgot to mention how Wonder Woman is the only Justice League member to get an honorable death because Sweet Baby Inc.

Honestly it’s wild how even in terms of superhero live service games both Marvel’s Avengers & Gotham Knights were able to accomplish the basic task of granting each character a distinct moveset & animations that made you feel like you were embodying them. In Avengers, Iron Man felt like Iron Man & Hulk felt like Hulk. Rocksteady itself explicitly were able to get this right in the original Arkham games where they gave you opportunities to play as Catwoman or Joker etc. & they had attributes that made them distinct from playing as Batman. Here though, beyond traversal, the variety is nonexistent. Shark should be a Hulk-like character being a aggro-drawing tank who charges into enemies & mauling everything or Harley should be an agile acrobat flipping over enemies & tripping them up before bludgeoning them with her hammer or strapping them with exploding party hats or Deadshot should be shooting piercing rounds that skewer multiple enemies & pulling of trick headshots with bullets that ricochet off of multiple surfaces. Granting all of these characters different calibers of guns & leaving it at that just seems it would be the most dull & uninteresting way to approach the game just from the viewpoint of a developer let alone experiencing it as a player.

So, instead of trying to devise a way of freeing the League from Braniac's control so that they can then take him down, Waller's best course of action is to murder the greatest heroes on Earth with some second rate villains?

Imagine if they made a goddamn Batman Beyond game instead.

Suicide Squad: Kill Rocksteady from what I read the founders of Rocksteady left and a ton of devs went with them. No real dev are left and only ESG persons remain. RIP

I’m registered blind and only have sight in one eye and that intro almost took out my remaining sight. 😂

Wouldn’t the green lantern ring reject John Stewart since he’s being brainwashed by Brainiac to do unheroic things?

More like Suicide Squad: Kill Rocksteady's reputation

Good lord, maybe I'm just getting old but all of this gameplay hurt my eyes. What a mess of UI, colors and particle effects. That one transition to gtav gameplay was so staggering

It’s like a omen when anything for suicide squad is produced it’s actually crazy

So this is how rocksteady died... *With thunderous applause*

I heard a rumor that there's a game behind all those sprites.

This game feels like what agents of mayhem was to saints row.

I can't be the only one that noticed all four playable characters have 'bombs' in their head (that get 'hacked' into by _two_ separate characters within an hour or two of each other near the start of the game) but neither _Batman_ nor *_Brainiac_* decide to do the same??

Played through on console with a controller, the game has an almost aggressive auto aim like it was rare to pull down the trigger and not have Boomerangs spine snap in half as he suddenly locked onto the nearest enemy

Warner Bros. is the lead in forcing their devs to implement free-to-play mechanics into fully priced games.

Looking at this game screen is like one of those mobile games adds, just a million things happening all of the time 😂

0:45 the big eyed video game black woman is back

I really don't understand how they managed to shoehorn multiverses in. Really? This Brainiac is from another universe?! AND that Joker DLC is from ANOTHER universe?!! Why, god, oh why is EVERYONE doing multiverse??!

it's a huge missed opportunity they didn't go for the Cybertron series formula, with different missions for different characters to highlight their unique abilities

Are you kidding? There’s nothing Harley says in this game that doesn’t make me want to commit Suicide Squad.

love how dedicated you are to referencing 90s movies

Seeing the UI in motion is somehow even worse than the screenshots.

That's my real problem with the writing. Because they're being mind controlled, there's little in the way of character payoff. They basically all die in the very beginning of the game, and the Squad might as well be fighting their reanimated corpses for how little narrative gravity is put on their respective deaths. The dialogue also seems to act like the JL heroes are *actually* evil for some reason. Harley's monoluge for instance doesn't really reconcile anything towards her historic foe.

the visual noise at the beginning almost had me slam the browser closed on instinct

Where is my Injustice League? Sinestro. Giganta. Captain Cold . Solomon Grundy. Bizarro. Black Manta. Like a bunch of people to get nuts. Suicide Squad helping them out would make sense. Waller only Dealing with these four is kinda... lackluster. There are a lot of heroes and villains available. Gorilla Grodd. Ultrahumanite. Faust. Etc.

What, Captain Boomerang doesn't even use boomerangs as his primary weapon?

"You either die a hero or live to see yourself become the villain". This quote is doubly apt considering the state of the Arkham series.

I watch every video you put out but after about a minute the visuals of this game were so difficult to look at that there's no way I can finish

this game is the pale horse. a sign of things to come.

King Shark? That wasn't King Shark, that was MCU Drax in a shark costume.

King shark died in the fully cannon (and much more entertaining) Assault on Arkham

I need a five hour long version of the outro music in my life

I believe in a pretty solid and somewhat provable theory that all of those triple-A games are so fucking horrible because they were made by people who don't know diddly dick about making video games. That's because all the talented and experienced veterans of the industry either quit or been fired from those companies, and are now producing their own crowdfunded indie games which are actually good.

Always online Single player. Nuff said. No purchase.

Remember that shitty Agents Of Mayhem game. Give it a DC skin. That's the game.

feels like most of warner bros big budget DCU games have the story of "Brainiac did it"

Gman, how many shares in Migraleve did you have to guy to get through this ... i'm feeling ill just looking at a paused moment 😲

The ammount of clashing colours in the city just makes metropolis look like a Brazilian ghetto

I swear, every time Harley, Boomerang, Innsmouth Amanda Waller, or anybody else speaks, these moments from Community come back to me, the moments where Jeff tells Leonard to shut up. An entire game could be made around why and how Batman, Superman and Green Lantern were mind controlled, yet the game has no idea what the hell happened, the game doesn´t even seem to know who Brainiac is, the JLA fights could be summed up by: "Extremely powerful individual moves away from the (by comparison) extremely vulnerable individuals and throws stuff at them from a distance, avoiding all contact". In a fraction of a second, Luthor´s heart is removed by the Flash then becomes the already described bossfight, in the scripted Batman scene, he knocks every single one out with ease and forgets to kill them (he killed 2 people 5 minutes earlier), then becomes the already described bossfight, Green Lantern captures them in an extremely easy way at the beginning, then becomes the already described bossfight, Superman...You get the idea. The only argument the game ever provides as to why are you supposed to kill these people instead of helping them to defeat Brainiac is "Because the Flash said so", then get ready to shoot (yes, shoot) every single one of them to death. Wait, did I say every single one of them? Not WW, she gets a somewhat "emotional" death or an attempt at an emotional death, mourned by people who don´t know a damn thing about her.

Instead of the flash wasting them before they pat an eye, he runs in cricles around them like a douchebag Instead of Superman annihilating them with eye laser like he did with wonder girl boss, he flies above them like an idiot Batman who has a contingency plan to neutralize the JL, he fails to kill thrid rate dc universe villians

Right now it's not even in steams top 100 player count list and for a live service multiplayer game that def isn't a good sign

Sweet baby inc was highly involved in this game. That's all you need to know if you're paying any type of attention the last few years

What Rocksteady seemed to forget was that in their universe deadshot was white. You beat his ass like multiple times throughout the games

What is all this visual noise? I dont remember this from the beta

still can't believe they showed a giant shark man with a green lantern ring and then didn't let you play with it. what the hell

it will be funny seeing how fast this game will follow that Avengers shitshow into oblivion.

Wait a minute. Does Debra Wilson contractually demand that her characters are always modeled after her? Or is this just a side effect of games starting to rely pretty heavily on facial-mocap? I saw the Amanda Waller character and I thought I was watching footage from Jedi Fallen Order.

The fact that story revolves around Sucide Squad filled of d-tier characters and they go on to take out both JL and Brainiac just shows how little they know about their source material. And none of SS members even die.

Wow that “meanwhile at the hall of justice” just took me tf back

The Batman stalking you scene is a great reminder of what Rocksteady is capable of when they have strong direction and gameplay designed around that vision. The best and most memorable parts of the Arkham games were the tightly designed sections that put you in a small space and made you deal with a threat, find a way to your objective, or sort out some sort of puzzle, and especially in City and Knight, those moments were contrasted with traversing more open environments. Here, though, almost all of the gameplay is put into that big open environment, and there's no creativity to it. They clearly had no idea how to design their game around that, so every story and side mission boils down to one of three basic combat scenarios (kill X number of enemies to destroy this machine, defend this point, or defend this vehicle), and they try to stretch that out into 6 hours of gameplay to make a 9 hour game with 3 hours of cutscenes. This is the PERFECT example of a polished turd. It looks great, and the gameplay feels good, but there's no depth and absolutely no variety. Hell, the final boss fight is a copy-pasted version of the first (and arguably worst) boss fight. They couldn't even figure out a better idea for THAT in the 6+ years this has been in development? I can't shake the feeling that they had a title for a game and got the green light to start making it, but entered production with no idea of how the gameplay would work, what the story would be, or how that story would translate to gameplay. So we end up with a game from Rocksteady that feels thoughtless and shallow in nearly every aspect. I feel bad for the exceptionally talented actors, animators, and artists that put the characters and cutscenes together, because despite a script and direction that often veers into downright awful, the quality of those is, quite frankly, phenomenal. There are obviously talented and passionate people working at the studio still, but they've been working on an unfinished game based on an unfinished idea.

Interestingly enough that small clip of Prototype from 2009 has a cleaner UI than the screen vomit from suicide squad. Not to mention that Alex Mercer is a much more compelling villain with an actual character arc. Great story to boot too. (We won’t talk about prototype 2 though)

I love how you use guns when bullets are the least useful thing against the justice league. Batmans suit is resistant to them with bullet proof plates in keys spots. The Flash can just move out of the way cause he's faster than light durr. The Green lantern can use a shield to stop them and Superman is invulnerable to just about everything.

I stated when they first teased it. The way the characters attack is exactly the way the Raiders of the broken planet/ Spacelords characters do . If that game had the expansion content i was writing since 2018 now it would be a fantastic experience to revisit it .

This game is that one scene from Ready Player One where the main villain shows how much crap they can have in someone's vision before it induces seizures.

The hud of this game really reminds me of the “what gaming journalists think Elden ring should look like” meme. And that’s not a fucking good thing.

3:08 Was that narrator voiced by Jim Ward? I swear, he sounds like Captain Qwark from Ratchet & Clank

Goddamn, that first 10 seconds was a flashbang to my ADD

You’re entitled to your opinion but if you’re a serious fan of the Arkhamverse then theirs nothing remotely redeemable here. To see such a beloved series get turned into something that’s essentially another uninspired live service looter shooter just designed to keep extracting money from the player like some battle royale game is utter bullshit. Not to mention what they’ve ultimately done to the Batman considering it was Kevin’s last performance. It’s heartbreaking

The visual clutter gives me "HIT THE LEVER" flashbacks from Konamis Pachinko machines. Classic "free-to-play" live service slot machine simulators, I was addicted to Warframe through 2015-2018, it looked similar (maybe not as bad), it also has you locked to your loadout in missions and you need to quit to change if you find yourself with the wrong weapon for the job.

Evil batman should've been like Mr X from Resi, ruthlessly chasing you throughout the game

I've seen a montage of gameplay and feel like I've already experienced every single thing this game has to 'offer.'

My biggest issue with this game is that it's is part of the Arkham-verse. Meaning that THIS is how they chose to introduce the Justice League to the Arkham continuity. So even if I overlook the way the writers disrespected their own legacy, I can't do the same with the MULTITUDE of other opportunities this game has effectively pissed away for this continuity. Because even if they retcon this entire game, it won't change the fact that this is how I'll remember the rest of the Justice League being handled by Rocksteady in their first outing: disrespected, and killed off with less respect than a random guard executed by Joker in Arkham Asylum.

The Batman mission did a really good job of reminding you of a much better game, from the far superior talent of past Rocksteady staff.

Is it really dlc, if the game needs to connect to a server?

If rocksteady really wanted to make their own live-service coop they would’ve been better off creating their own original IP for it.

They could have released in 2023 but didnt want to compete with Gollum and Kong, and start 2024 just right :) That UI overlay is from hell, I got dizzy just from watching...

What pisses me off is that one day, all that work Rocksteady put into the game will be for nought once WBs pull the plug on the game. Absolutely disgusted seeing the amount of work being erased without end of life plans.

There is precisely one funny character moment in this entire game and it's when King shark put on the hat

The fact that Kevin Conroy's second to last performance was this is criminal.

This game achieved the same result as Back 4 Blood or Payday 3 for me - they made me want to play their predecessor again lol

The worst part of the story is not the Justice League dying unceremoniously. Is that there is a chance that Warner Bros. can bring back all of them with the Lazarus Pit. They already did this with Gotham Nights, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same thing for Post-lauch content

What's funny is that when you bring the ice cream truck to its destination it somehow crashes 😂

This is to Arkham Knight what Skull & Bones is to Black Flag. In an alternate universe we’re settling in to a round of the newest release of the Arkham series and the pirate part of black flag built into a stand-alone game by Ubisoft. Wish I’d been born in THAT universe.