7 Ways Injustice 2 Raises The Bar For Fighting Games

2. The Feel Of Experimenting With Combos Is Unmatched

The core mechanic in Injustice's fighting system has always been combos. The definitive factor between victory or defeat is the ability to successfully chain together combos that leave your opponents bouncing in the air.

Since the animations are better rendered, you can feel the weight of every blow landed, making it easier for players to know when to press the next button in the combo sequence.

This in turn allows you to get creative, as you can start with a basic combo, bounce the opponent off a statue in the background and finish them with a stage transition. Speaking of stage transitions, some can now be blocked and reversed, adding an additional tactical layer that fixes the first game's unavoidable versions.

There’s also the ability to spend your meter in order to evade super moves or enemy projectiles. You can now perform an evasive forward roll to escape projectile-happy opponents (here’s looking at you, Deadshot) or a mid-air recovery, which allows you to escape the aforementioned combo juggling. These tweaks make spending your meter a strategic gameplay mechanism that can be the definitive factor between winning or losing a round.