To lead off, the game runs really well, looks really nice, and plays very competently. Gameplay and combat rely heavily on traversal, and with each character having unique movement options, it helps aid that you get a relative unique experience if you decide to hop between characters. It's really enjoyable to play. That's about all I have for positivity though, as this is an incredibly stale game at best, and a terrible, lifeless and, depending on how much you actually care about DC, even insulting experience at worst.
While the gameplay is good, the avenues to supplement it are very poor. Most missions boil down kill enemies travel to next waypoint repeat, and it doesn't help the boss fights are same-y and stale, while mobs are made of paper to your arsenal, meaning build diversity doesn't matter all that much. Loot is tiered like in every other game, but you get unique and legendaries extremely early in. Normally this would be a good thing but what this devolves into is 99% of the gear you obtain will be crap. Most side missions have an addendum such as you can only kill enemies with grenades or shield breaks, making what would be a fun enough time waster when doing basic defend the point or collect the data from enemies, into such a tedious endeavor where you're forced to duck and dodge about waiting for ammunition to restore or cooldowns to come off. Between loot being inconsequential and the missions expunging tedium, most people will probably gravitate to just finishing the story, which doesn't fair well either.
It's "Kill the Justice League" but you would expect some more fanfare from following that path. Legacy heroes are treated like the fodder you'll murder in most of your playtime, and with the direction the story goes the tag line ends up feeling like an afterthought. It also doesn't help that some heroes get special, tasteful send offs while others are left laying there as background corpses, so it throws away the potential hook that the squad is just that disconnected from humanity, because they aren't. Not to say the game doesn't have the occasional charm, and if you've been a fan of the modern retelling of Suicide Squad, you'll find more entertainment here than most. Just know that the beginning is the peak of quality in terms of tension and writing. All on top of this technically being a sequel to Arkham Knight, which is an entire mess of worms you have to let sink in.
And with the hook deflated, that's really about it. Suicide Squad does absolutely nothing to stand out amongst its contemporaries. Open world action loot shooter with cash shop, battle pass and rotating seasons. There's really no reason to play this over the 40 other live service loot games that do the same exact thing. Come back in 3 years when the game's been marked down to $2 and has almost double the content with 0 charge, don't support this beta test.
While the gameplay is good, the avenues to supplement it are very poor. Most missions boil down kill enemies travel to next waypoint repeat, and it doesn't help the boss fights are same-y and stale, while mobs are made of paper to your arsenal, meaning build diversity doesn't matter all that much. Loot is tiered like in every other game, but you get unique and legendaries extremely early in. Normally this would be a good thing but what this devolves into is 99% of the gear you obtain will be crap. Most side missions have an addendum such as you can only kill enemies with grenades or shield breaks, making what would be a fun enough time waster when doing basic defend the point or collect the data from enemies, into such a tedious endeavor where you're forced to duck and dodge about waiting for ammunition to restore or cooldowns to come off. Between loot being inconsequential and the missions expunging tedium, most people will probably gravitate to just finishing the story, which doesn't fair well either.
It's "Kill the Justice League" but you would expect some more fanfare from following that path. Legacy heroes are treated like the fodder you'll murder in most of your playtime, and with the direction the story goes the tag line ends up feeling like an afterthought. It also doesn't help that some heroes get special, tasteful send offs while others are left laying there as background corpses, so it throws away the potential hook that the squad is just that disconnected from humanity, because they aren't. Not to say the game doesn't have the occasional charm, and if you've been a fan of the modern retelling of Suicide Squad, you'll find more entertainment here than most. Just know that the beginning is the peak of quality in terms of tension and writing. All on top of this technically being a sequel to Arkham Knight, which is an entire mess of worms you have to let sink in.
And with the hook deflated, that's really about it. Suicide Squad does absolutely nothing to stand out amongst its contemporaries. Open world action loot shooter with cash shop, battle pass and rotating seasons. There's really no reason to play this over the 40 other live service loot games that do the same exact thing. Come back in 3 years when the game's been marked down to $2 and has almost double the content with 0 charge, don't support this beta test.
Schmliff0
3 months ago