10 Upcoming Video Games Being Sent Out To Die
2. Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is just a few short months away from release, and things aren't looking good at all.
Rather than simply adapt the Batman: Arkham formula into a Suicide Squad game, developers Rocksteady have designed their superhero actioner as a generic live-service looter-shooter in the vein of the soon-to-shutter Marvel's Avengers.
The released gameplay footage hasn't gone down well with fans at all, who have criticised the cluttered UI, excessively arcade-y combat, egregious focus on loot and stats, odd decision to give every character a gun, and Warner Bros. making the game always-online even if you're playing solo.
WB has been working on various iterations of a Suicide Squad game since 2010, yet from what we've seen so far, this game feels like another Gotham Knights-tier dud in the making.
Sure, WB will spend a ton of money marketing it initially, but don't be shocked if it releases to wildly middling reviews and gets a deep discount within a month or two of its release, just as Gotham Knights did.
Publishers are all-too-keen to get in on the live service gold rush, yet without putting in sufficient care to develop a quality gameplay loop first, or consider whether a given property is even suited for it in the first place.