{"id":730710,"date":"2025-11-21T17:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b9QYWQcY5knRWHm6XeiGcJ"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:12:51","slug":"8-hours-in-suicide-squad-doesnt-seem-like-the-disaster-some-were-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/8-hours-in-suicide-squad-doesnt-seem-like-the-disaster-some-were-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"8 hours in, Suicide Squad doesn’t seem like the disaster some were waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It's not every day that a videogame's grand reveal goes so poorly that it gets delayed a year. Following up one of the greatest action series of all time with a Suicide Squad looter shooter isn't what I imagined for Rocksteady, and my eyes rolled to the back of my head when I first saw Diablo-style gear statistics and talk of a battle pass<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After that tough feedback at the beginning of 2023, Rocksteady went dark on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, reemerging late last year with trailers that emphasized its open-world Metropolis, unique traversal, and the squad's distinct playstyles.<\/p>\n

It looked fun, and I like co-op shooters\u2026 dang, was Suicide Squad actually gonna be good?<\/p>\n

So far, yeah. I'm eight hours in and having a great time leaping across Metropolis, tearing through purple aliens (plus a billion helicopters), and learning how to get the most out of every member of Task Force X. This is not at all the high-profile trainwreck that some (even some of us<\/a>) were waiting for. I do wonder if it'll stay this fun, though\u2014most missions are samey so far, and if that doesn't change between hour eight and hour twenty, that'd be a huge bummer.<\/p>\n

Here are my big takeaways from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League so far:<\/p>\n

Getting around Metropolis is half the fun<\/h2>\n

I can't say enough nice things about how fun it is to jump, jetpack, swing, and boomerang-warp across the rotting corpse of Metropolis. Other open world games are happy if they land on a single method of locomotion that's fun to do for hours, but Rocksteady went ahead and made four so good that I can't pick a favorite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every member of the Suicide Squad plays like they were plucked out of a different sandbox. When I'm King Shark crossing 300 foot gaps in a single leap, I'm whisked back to collecting agility orbs in the original Crackdown. When I'm Deadshot taking to the skies to get the high ground on everybody at once, I feel as untethered as the best moments of Anthem. When I'm Captain Boomerang blinking across gaps and speeding up buildings, I think I've happened across the Infamous: Second Son sequel we never got. Harley Quinn gets the Spider-Man treatment.<\/p>\n

Suicide Squad – King Shark”<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n