Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review – straddles the brilliant and the banal
www.theguardian.com
This fourth adaptation of DC’s least-likely heroes combines an inspired storyline with some very pedestrian combat
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    As Heath Ledger’s Joker gleefully rammed a pencil into a mobster’s eye and flames tore the flesh from Harvey Dent’s cheek, my-then-girlfriend’s little brother left the cinema looking mildly traumatised.

    As UFOs rain lasers from the sky and Green Lantern gleefully slaughters human resisters, it falls to our gang of storied losers to save the day – and kill the Justice League.

    Taking its cues from Destiny and the much-maligned Marvel’s Avengers game, this live service approach sees Rocksteady attempt to marry a tightly directed cinematic story with number-crunching and randomised gun drops.

    Swapping Arkham’s winning mix of stealth and fisticuffs for flimsy firearms, your antiheroes spend the game leaping across Metropolis’s bland sandbox, riddling forgettable humanoid zombies full of lead.

    Once the faceless hordes of enemies fade out of view and the camera zooms in close, the game shines, with your brilliantly rendered squad taking on the corrupted members of the Justice League in gloriously silly villainous vignettes.

    From gawking as Batman remorselessly murders policemen to witnessing Superman melt a hero with his laser eyes, there’s more than a touch of The Boys and Invincible to this dark slice of DC.

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  • sauna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Out of all Looter Shooters launches since and including Destiny 2: Suicide Squad Kills The Justice League has been by far the most complete (nr of bugs, overall polish, features, feel, gunplay, controls, fps, etc).

    Claiming anything else highlights you (not you as in the OP specifically) as someone who haven’t given it any time and possible weaksauce bandwagoneer.

    What it does show, clearly to all of the interwebz, is that Gaming Journalism is not your path and you should take a step back and just research words. Words like integrity, ethics and character

    /awaits your 3 hour 1/10 review of Skull & Bones and banter like “something something ubisoftisdarknessandbadnessnomatyerwhatyousay”