Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League - Review In Progress

Imagine a world where your worst nightmares have come true.  The apocalypse has come, and people all around are dying or disappearing.  Now imagine that the peacekeepers and freedom fighters are the source of all the chaos. In a world gone mad, almost all the people you are accustomed to relying on for help have gone rogue.  Such is the premise of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. 

Suicide Squad brings back a lot of familiar faces to anyone with any experience with the IP.  Rocksteady has confirmed that more playable characters and post-credit content is being planned for Suicide Squad but everyone in the main campaign is available already. Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and yes, Amanda Waller are back in a new adventure that shows us that villains can be heroes with the right…motivation.  If that motivation happens to come from a remote bomb inside their heads, so be it.  

Suicide Squad had a bit of a tumultuous journey to release. Initially, the launch window was set for 2022 but was delayed to May of 2023.  However, that release date would get delayed again in April of 2023 in favor of a February 2nd, 2024 release date.  Additionally, Long time Batman voice actor, Kevin Conroy died of intestinal cancer during the production of Suicide Squad. If that wasn’t bad enough, players who paid $100 for early access by purchasing the Digital Deluxe edition were locked out of servers for several hours due to a glitch that Rocksteady had to investigate and fix.

Killing The Justice League 

Let’s get the good stuff, and I mean the really good stuff, out of the way first. The campaign for Suicide Squad pits anti-hero against hero gone bad.  The big baddie, an alien named Brainiac, has taken over the minds and bodies of Earth’s finest superheroes.  It’s up to some prisoners from Arkham to save the day against their own will before the human race becomes extinct.  Amanda Waller sees no way to make this happen without the death of the members of The