Villains become heroes in Rocksteady’s latest work, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, coming on February 2, 2024. We were invited exclusively across the region to experience the game before its release at Studio Rock’s headquarters. Steady in the city of London, and now here are our impressions of it:The game is in a third-person shooter style in an open world, and you can play alone or with your friends, for example, online. The events of the game take place in a completely new place where the developer Rocksteady has moved from the rainy, constantly dark city to Metropolis City, where the characters of the Suicide Squad, Deadshot, King Shark, Harley Quinn, and Captain Boomerang, live out their lives. Knowing that my main experience with the character Deadshot was during the permitted play period
We liked the gameplay, which allows you to play alone with any of the four characters, and each character has a different fighting style and transportation style than the rest. For example, the character Deadshot uses a jet engine on his back to fly and move from one place to another for a limited period before falling and regaining the ability to fly again. While the King Shark character relies on high jumping powers to move from one place to another. As for Harley Quinn, she has a drone that follows her everywhere, and she uses a grappling gun to swing with the help of that drone. She shoots at it, the grappling hook attaches to it, and it swings forward and continues in this manner. While the character Captain Boomerang uses super speed similar to the character The Flash.
The movement system in the game depends on timing so that you can benefit from the full period of time allowed for you to move before falling and restarting again. The game also allows you to continue the distinctive speed of movement without stopping, thanks to sliding when you touch the ground, jumping, and resuming movement in the air again. Of course, you can develop your character’s mobility capabilities through the skill tree available to you or by upgrading your equipment
With regard to the fighting style, each character has its own style for that as well, and you can use specific equipment and skills to make the style distinctive and unique to you. For example, the Deadshot character can use long-range weapons to shoot from a distance, such as sniper weapons, and throw the bombs he has. . So I tried to build him to be a medium-range fighter with a machine gun and a side pistol, and to benefit from flying and throwing bombs from above at the enemy. Of course, each character has an energy meter and a special meter for the shield, and among the features of combat that give you more variety in it, if you are damaged and lose part or all of your armor, you can restore it through combat when you shoot at the part The lower limbs of the enemy such as his feet and shooting. Then an indicator will appear for you to perform the Shield Harvest operation, and when this is done, your character will perform a powerful strike that will finish off the enemy and cause a certain number of shield icons to fall from him, thus restoring the shield’s energy. It is best not to let the shield meter completely empty because you will become more vulnerable and more likely to die when you try to kill an enemy to take advantage of the Shield Harvest feature.
There are also ways to get rid of enemies faster, such as directing a strong counterattack when a large pointer appears to aim at a specific place on the enemy’s body for a limited time. When you see this, you can direct a counterstrike that reduces a larger portion of the enemy’s energy, and it is very useful in getting rid of enemies. From enemies with a low energy meter, you can kill them faster and fight the next enemy, and so on. In addition, counter hits cause you to get more armor as well, so you have two ways to get it. Of course, when enemies are killed, additional bullets, bombs, etc. will drop from them
The enemy can block your strikes during combat, and the game allows you to overcome this by directing a strike to break the enemy’s blocking position and make him fly upward vertically, so you can aim at him and continue hitting him in the meantime. In this way, you can use this strike and mix it with your character’s capabilities to create a powerful and fun combo during execution.
I also liked that each of the four characters in the gang has two fatal blows, which are the Traversal Attack and the Suicide Strike. They can be used at any time during the fight, and after that, you have to wait for a certain period until you can use them again. I found the Suicide Strike very useful in quickly eliminating several enemies at the same time.
In the new Suicide Squad game, you will find various main and side missions. For example, we experienced the mission of rescuing several civilians from an army of giant Brainiac monsters, as it requires you to find every person hiding and transport them to the peace point in order to complete the mission. There are missions such as: Fighting groups of enemies until the time period ends. There are more activities and side missions, such as fighting strong and large enemies with armed cars, knowing that these cars last for a certain period before they explode, and you must get out of them before they explode while you are inside them to avoid burning your character for a long time and losing your energy along the way. the time.
Among the activities that we found during the experience were the challenges of the character The Riddler, which we are accustomed to in previous Rocksteady games, such as the Batman Arkham game series, and the activity that I did was flying on a track of green rings and reaching the end before the specified time expired. Perhaps we will find various activities in the full game after its release and receive appropriate rewards for that
When you complete a side or main mission within the story mode, a screen will appear showing you the ranking of the characters’ positions in terms of performance in that mission. You will receive rewards such as new weapons or different equipment
Speaking of rewards, you can develop your character when you obtain them, and use weapons, bombs, and equipment to develop armor and mobility features over time in the game. For example, you can change the mobility characteristics of your character by changing what is called the Traversal Mod, which adds various improvements, including increasing the strength of the character’s blows in general or increasing the strength of the blow when shooting at the enemy from a distance, increasing by 30% more than 25 meters.
In addition to obtaining rewards, you will be able to modify this equipment later in the game, as you can perform the Overhaul process for a specific weapon to change the properties contained in that weapon, or create a completely new weapon with the Crafting system in the game, and it is also possible to add an effect to the weapon called Affliction, and in In my experience with the game, we added a feature that freezes enemies in place for a short period, which also causes an increase in the strength of the blows that the enemy receives during that period, thus getting rid of them faster.
The story of the game in brief revolves around the Suicide Squad gang, who were assigned the task of getting rid of a giant robotic entity called Brainiac, who is working to destroy the city of Metropolis and transform its residents into monstrous creatures, in addition to being able to control the heroes of the Justice League, including Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, and others. The Flash is in order to completely destroy the city, and the Suicide Squad must somehow save them and destroy that giant octopus-like robot.
During the game, many dialogues will take place between the gang’s characters, whether in story clips or during gameplay and fighting. I found most of them during the experience to be of a comedic nature, and that was very enjoyable while playing, and of course that increases your depth in the characters of the gang, who were once thieves and criminals and became heroes to save the world from the evil that pervades the city. These dialogues do not only revolve around the gang’s characters, and you will find yourself listening to characters such as Batman or Green Lantern, for example, talking to each other and what is going on on the other side of the spectrum.
As for the game’s graphics during the experience, I found them excellent, and the details in the characters are very high, including the side characters, to the point that details of the pores and wrinkles of the facial skin appear on the characters, such as Harley Quinn. The view of the city of Metropolis is very beautiful, and you will find distinctive and different designs for its buildings, and you will also notice the giant robotic octopus with long arms in the background. You will experience this experience at different times of the day and night, not just one time throughout the game.
I enjoyed my experience with the new Suicide Squad game, despite the doubts I had about the game, but I was surprised by a distinctive combat experience that was different from the usual, and continuous humorous dialogues between the characters, and I was very excited to experience the full experience when it was released. Certainly, the game will be more enjoyable when playing collectively over the Internet with friends.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will have localization of its menus and texts, but it will not provide Arabic dubbing for the characters’ voices. The game is coming on February 2, 2024, as I mentioned previously. Note that pre-ordering the Deluxe Edition of the game offers you an early access period 72 hours before its official release, that is, three days before February 2. We will also receive additional characters and content later after the game is released for free, according to my conversation with the development team during my stay at the studio headquarters.