A brand new Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League cutscene has sparked a debate about the route the story goes in, as the newest season teases the subsequent playable character.
Mrs. Freeze was added to Rocksteady’s controversial dwell service shooter final week as a part of the launch of Season 2, and with it got here a cutscene that’s set tongues wagging inside the sport’s small however loyal group.
Warning! Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League Season 2 spoilers observe:
The brand new cutscene reveals the return of The Flash after the Suicide Squad save him from captivity by killing yet one more post-launch Brainiac as a part of Season 2. The Suicide Squad had killed The Flash alongside different corrupted members of the Justice League in a bid to avoid wasting Metropolis from destruction at the palms of Brainiac in the base sport’s major story.
Some have referred to as the story growth a shock, whereas others have stated a post-launch plot twist that noticed the return of “good” Justice League members was all the time on the playing cards. Both method, gamers are questioning about the actual nature of the Flash’s return, what it means for Brainiac’s masterplan, and elevating the chance that different characters apparently killed by the Suicide Squad, together with Batman, Inexperienced Lantern, and Superman, may be set to return.
Considered one of the most controversial story beats in the Suicide Squad base sport is the demise of corrupted Arkham trilogy Batman, who’s unceremoniously executed by Harley Quinn. Some criticized the demise, saying it failed to provide the character, voiced by the late Kevin Conroy, the sendoff he deserved.
However may Batman now be set to return alongside extra voice work from Kevin Conroy? This new cutscene suggests the Suicide Squad killed clones of the unique Justice League members throughout the major story, with Brainiac holding the actual offers hostage. Nonetheless, some recommend the Suicide Squad did in truth kill the unique Justice League members, however Brainiac has since revived them, and it’s now the activity of Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark, to avoid wasting them.
No matter the case, in the cutscene The Flash sees the Suicide Squad and wonders why they’re not in jail, earlier than collapsing. The character’s return is just not talked about additional.
Maybe extra revelations, and actual Justice League members, will present up in Season 3, which appears to be like set so as to add Lawless as a playable character. Whereas the record of post-launch DLC characters was already leaked by way of a datamine, Rocksteady has teased their inclusion with adjustments to Metropolis that clearly point out who’s up subsequent. Season 1, for instance, teased the arrival of Mrs. Freeze with a cold change to Metropolis, and now gamers have noticed one other change that implies Lawless is coming quickly. After Lawless, Deathstroke is anticipated to spherical out the yr one record of playable characters.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was in fact panned by critics upon launch and has extraordinarily low participant numbers on Steam. A few of the frustration stems from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League not being one other Batman sport from Rocksteady, regardless of being set inside the Arkhamverse. The developer’s single-player Arkham collection is much-loved by followers, with 2011’s Batman: Arkham Metropolis specifically held up as one among the biggest, if not the biggest, superhero video video games of all time.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, on the different hand, is a dwell service third-person shooter wherein Batman is a villain. Quickly after the sport’s February 2024 launch, writer Warner Bros. admitted the failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League contributed to a $200 million hit to income.
Final month, Warner Bros, advised IGN that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will see out its first yr of help, however declined to touch upon what occurs afterwards. The query is, will Rocksteady’s obvious post-launch plan to have the Suicide Squad pivot to saving the Justice League after killing them be totally realized?
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