Summary
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguemay be a live-service multiplayer shooter, and yet that substantial pivot from its preceding Arkhamversegames doesn’t mean it’ll be any less story-driven or any less prominent asArkham Knight’s sequel. The recent reveal that a regrown Ivy debuts inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis enough to make that clear and the implications such a choice makes for the larger Arkhamverse are now potentially unending. Likewise, it’ll be interesting to see how much Rocksteady learned fromArkham Knight’s Gotham City when it came toSuicide Squad’s Metropolis, especially with all the verticality and charm it has already displayed.
Gameplay footage forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguethus far has shown that Task Force X will be working closely with ARGUS and a few named NPCs in order to take down the Justice League. Wonder Woman will also seemingly play a role in aiding Task Force X regardless of how reluctant she is to help a batch of criminals. If the Justice League’s Hall of Justice becomes a location where all these characters congregate, then it may be true thatSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguehas made a terrific decision in adapting a hub of sorts not unlike theGCPD hub fromArkham Knight.
ARGUS’ Hall of Justice HQ Looks a Lot Like Arkham Knight’s GCPD
The second Suicide Squad Insider made it seem clear that Task Force X will have a dedicated team behind them as they procure weaponry and strategize. It’s already been revealed thatPenguin, Gizmo, Ivy, and Toyman all behave as NPC merchants or vendors inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. It’s possible they’re all found and spoken to in separate locations, but keeping them all together would make sense, too.
If so, players probably get quite a few chances to talk to these companion characters and ARGUS NPCs and that’s important because that’ll likely be where a huge portion of the game’s dialogue is heard beyond Task Force X’s banter in the open world. Because Green Lantern is seen capturing Task Force X briefly and the Flash shares a lot of dialogue with the squad it’s also possible that the Justice League will be around enough to be a storytelling backbone, but ARGUS seems like the natural choice so long asAmanda Waller is getting the outcome she and ARGUS desire.
DC characters like Rick Flagwill be intriguing to interact with, for example, as well as anyone else ARGUS advises Task Force X to get help from. Because ARGUS is an organization that theArkhamgames never delved into, it could also be where certain characters from previous titles found new employment, giving them an excuse to be reprised again.
SWAT Officer Lieutenant Howard Scott Branden fromArkham Origins, for example, would be a perfect candidate as a crooked character who could play a role in making the squad’s time in Metropolis more grueling if he was a part of ARGUS now. Branden led SWAT in an effort to kill Batman and earn the $50 million bounty he believed Black Mask had put up when in actuality it was Joker, and Branden’s moral compass already being askew could make for an engaging subplot inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
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.
