Gotta give props to how creatively they actually kill the Justice League. Batman was shot with a gun. Flash was taken out with a gun. Green Lantern died from a bullet wound from a gun anddd Superman was shot with a gun.

WB giving you a free copy of the game is the equivalent of someone putting a "kick me" sign on their own back.

Batman learning to let others in happens entirely offscreen and then he’s immediately killed. There’s a lesson there.

Can’t believe the squad didn’t even commit suicide. Totally unplayable.

This really shows how oversaturated the Suicide Squad is as a concept since what used to be a black ops team that covers small scale, shady stuff that most superheroes would overlook to basically turning them into crazy anti-heroes that have to save the world from galactic threats.

The real problem with the Batman fight is that the entire squad is having the exact same fear toxic hallucination

Okay NOW I understand why you were looking for someone to do the animations and it was totally worth it.

What’s the point of having Captain Boomerang if you’re just gonna give him a gun? what the fuck

“Rocksteady went from setting trends to chasing trends” Just perfect

What’s also crazy is how they tried to give Harley more of the anti-hero who was roped into all her crimes because of Joker and her previously unresolved issues like the tv show. For one thing, you can’t do that without her taking accountability for her actions and actually having remorse because she wasn’t exactly brainwashed or coerced, she fell in love with a maniac and helped him in all his crimes. She hasn’t been reformed in Arkham, she was just brought out by Waller to be controlled. This Harley is especially guilty of all her own actions. She canonically helped Joker kill and mutilate children, she was distraught when Joker died, and continued to commit crimes and obsess over his memory long after he was gone. Whatever dissociation is present (via playing her in Arkham DLC and staying in her form of detective vision long enough for “Harleen” to talk to her), it’s not an excuse for everything she did. But no, she just fell in with the wrong guy, she cringes at her outfit in Arkham Asylum (that she as a character canonically picked out herself), she’s so unbothered by Joker now that when a variant of him comes in from another universe, she doesn’t bat an eye about it.

I'm shocked that he didn't mention the fact that this game is literally "Sensory overload: the game". There's so much HUD vomit on the screen at all times with numbers, explosions, bullets, neon colors, notifications, progress bars, health bars, and loud sound effects that this game just looks like the visual representation of what it's like to have a panic attack. Remember back when all you had on the screen was your health bar, your skills, and MAYBE a combo counter? Good non-headache inducing times.

I love how this game basically makes it that Batman decided to gaslight his entire family and friends making them think he's dead. Only to show up later with a brand new group of cooler friends.

That representation of the Batman fight without toxin was perfect💀

Who would've ever guessed that a game that switches studios, goes through two movie tie-in cycles during development, misreads industry trends, and caused the studio leads to leave before launch would fail?

Still think it should’ve been a Wonder Woman game where she saves the Justice League. You know, like how she does several times in the comics.

Last DC game where you had to fly through rings in Metropolis didn't go so well. Did nobody realize during development?

I prefer to consider the Assault on Arkham animated film as the only Suicide Squad story in this universe.

I find it hilarious that Lego Batman 3 had a much better plot about Brainiac mind controlling the Justice League. It actually makes me think this game's premise would have been handled so much better in lego

It was all over for rocksteady as soon as they decided they didn't want to pay Paul Dini anymore.

Can we talk about how badass Kevin Conroy sounds as an evil Batman? Dude legit sounds scary

They made a suicide squad game where none of the members can die

Ok I have a pitch. Instead of having us purchase skins, the micro transactions should allow us to use characters like Peacemaker and Bloodsport instead of Deadshot with alternate voice lines. That's because the suicide squad is supposed to have 300 disposable criminals and not a group of 4 ppl.

Rocksteady could simply fix everything with with 3 words “it’s not canon”

20:00 The sad thing is that Tara Strong actually nailed what kind of Harley voice she should use in the first Injustice game, but then came Arkham Knight and it was reduced into what it has been since that game.

Is anyone else confused why Rocksteady didn't make a Justice League game instead? A JL stopping a Braniac invasion game would have been better and make more sense on almost every level.

The worst parts about The Joker dropping in this game is: 1. Marvwl's Avengers let you play with the new characters FROM THE GET GO! 2. You can buy him in the shop for like $10 of in-game currency but you might lose access to him and have to grind for him anyway, like one of my friends did.

This game kind of represents the growing problem I've had with the Suicide Squad and Harley Quinn the past few years as the push for the two in every DC platform, movies, games, tv shows, and comics even when they really shouldn't be involved. They've become the new Dwayne Johnson wants to take over the DCEU, they just get put into bigger and bigger scenarios but because of how big the threats are the writing just becomes dumber and dumber as why they just don't get squashed.

"You know what would be a great idea to take down the evil superheroes? We'll use the same bad guys they defeated yeahhh"

Finally, Xavier uploads again after all these years!

Those soulless live-service costume recolors honestly feel disrespectful. Like they really need you to *know* how little they care. Like, you sank the GDP of a small country into this, what do you mean you can't afford to put more effort into the main thing you're selling than just using the color picker/fill tool?

The fact that none of the "Suicide Squad" member actually dies in the game is baffling even moreso than killing the Justice League but much is said about them already amd how shit that is.

I like the point that Batman Arkham Asylum will be talked about 20 years from now. It shows the quality, care, and passion they put in.

You'd better mention that the message at the end that pays tribute to Kevin Conroy was so half-assed that it had typos.

Fuck dude I didn't have a problem with Harley's voice before you said that Timmy Turner shit and now I can't unhear it

When I first saw trailers for this, I thought playing as King Shark would be like a melee style of gameplay, violently ripping enemies appart with your bear hands, biting heads off, or doing any kind of Mortal Kombat style finishser on anyone. That sounded like it would've been fun, and like the James Gunn Suicide Squad movie. Instead, we get this....

I am SO GLAD that someone else feels the same as I do about King Shark in this game. I kept hearing everyone saying that he's the best part and whatnot, but you, sir, put it word for word what I've been thinking. He's just Drax that somehow is both dumb and oblivious but also knows things and can figure things out that the other squad members can't for some reason.

"melee combat like a rhythm game" Hey Mendoza, this is totally unrelated but you ever heard of a video game called Hi-Fi Rush?

I just don’t get their obsession with the suicide squad man. How does it make sense that we have a game about them before a game about the justice league? Who wants to play as captain boomerang rather than superman? Who at WB is so obsessed with these guys??

You forgot to mention Arkham Knight gave you New 52, Batfleck and the Dark Knight series outfits for FREE

Let’s just pretend this game’s story takes place in the Dark Multiverse of the Arkham Games…

WHY CAN'T I JUST GET A SUPERMAN GAME

Two things rocksteady could have done for the rocksteady Batman universe 1.) make a prequel where Batman fights the court of owls and then think about what comes next in the series or 2.) MAKE A BATMAN BEYOND GAMEEEEEEE

Honestly I wish this game was more like Ultimate Alliance where you could start with the main roster and unlock characters/costumes and different moves and combos for your characters. They could go across various locations in DC or even the DC multiverse like Earth-3 with the Crime Syndicate or the DCeased Universe and fight zombies or even create their own different universes, honestly the problem with this game is the potential that could have been. Like seriously I wanna play as Captain Cold or Major Disaster!

You saying all the characters feel like a “one size fits all” really highlights my biggest gripe of mine with the game: they chose the most basic squad imaginable and made the most boring versions as possible. I remember people brainstorming fun villains to play as before the game came out, and there were so many cool ideas. Polka dot man making platforms for others to walk on, poison ivy could plant monsters around the map and grow them to be stronger throughout the level, kite man could fly constantly and carry others around, etc. instead they made everyone a shooter. At least make them all characters you use guns like deadshot, deathstroke, bloodsport, peacemaker, etc. I was hoping a threat as big as brainiac there would be an army of playable characters, with dozens of different classes for combat. But no let’s make king shark use a gun…

Wait a minute, if all the corrupted justice league members were clones, then what was the deal with green lantern's ring?

the fact that nobody from "squad" dies is absolutely atrocious it's not about killing batman or justice league it's about the way they did it

Can’t wait for Thunderbolts: Kill The Avengers where Screwball shoots Peter in the heart and watches him die from blood loss.

I refuse to acknowledge this as Kevin Conroy’s final role as Batman in the Arkham universe as stupid as the ending was to Arkham knight at least the game itself wasn’t a gambling simulator

Really, this game makes me appreciate Arkham Knight a lot more because at least that game had a lot of effort put into it and was a satisfying conclusion to the Arkham Series. But no Rocksteady and WB had to screw it up.

“The people with money aren’t actually good at business” Truer words have never been said. It always ASTOUNDS me when companies do stupid stupid shit that doesn’t even make sense through the lens of greedy capitalism

Why did WB give Xavier a review copy of the game? Are they stupid?

I can't believe the Generation X video was foreshadowing this video when Xavier mentioned Bumper voicing this version of Deadshot

Its honestly baffling why DC keeps wanting to push The Suicide Squad as one of their primary IPs/teams, when most if not all of the projects involving them currently have flopped in one way or another. The first movie was met with negativity from both critics and fans, the second movie was received well but due to covid financially kind of bombed, and this game is barely alive and had been met with mediocre to negative reviews almost unanimously

Mysterio’s mysteriums are Better than the riddler trophies in this game Avoid the clocks laser Beat up on mysterio to deactivate the shield on the enemies Avoid getting hit by cars or a train

Something I wanted to see in this game was the death screens with the Justice League standing over your dead body in the old Arkham games would do that would have been so cool to see

I appreciate the effort put into a 30 second gag in the second half of the video.

My God this game would’ve been awesome if it was Arkham Batman vs the Justice League The missed potential hurts my soul

WB done messed up by making Gotham Knights be its own standalone universe instead of being the actual continuation of the Arkhamverse. So much wasted potential.

What gets me is that it's not even a good adaptation of the IP. Darkest dungeon feels more like a Suicide Squad game than this. For me, the most interesting thing about Suicide Squad as a concept is the moral dilemma that comes with using humans as disposable tools for greater good. The bomb in their head should have some story significance. Imagine having a Guadians of Galaxy type game where you can lose members permanently.

The fact that WB has said they want to make more games like this and less like Hogwarts Legacy- despite Hogwarts Legacy literally being the best-selling game of 2023- is the kind of insane corporate idiocy you can’t make up.

"If you want to claim a Riddler Trophy, solve my maze!"

I no longer trust Rocksteady anymore with making DC games.

Im so glad someone pointed out the fear toxin fight is odd as hell.

I think my biggest takeaway from this game I'll never play is how much WB has tarnished the Suicide Squad's reputation. They are such a fun team at their core but aside from the original run really only the Gunn movie and JLU episode get them. The concept at it's most core form was a team for all the characters DC didn't care about, in the original run the team was made up of hereos and villains who editorial practically forgot about and that is such a fun concept whatever situation you put them in but they are hampered now by being a vehicle for Harley and C or D list Batman rogues. If we're lucky in most modern versions we get 2/3 from Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang or King Shark in the line up. It's not just about how when you're team is made up of the Polka dot man's or Doctor Light's of the world that they actually have a chance at dying but also these characters are allowed to grow, develop and even just have interiority. Harley, Clayface, Deathstroke, Deadshot etc are never allowed to be anything bar the most superficial versions of their characters because they are too popular to ever change for any prolonged period. The only times they do change is to be closer to their movie or cartoon versions, Deadshot used to be a really interesting character with a martyr complex, he stayed on the squad because he wanted to die for something yet he never did, you can't get that now though because as soon as a character is big enough to be played by Will Smith they're gonna get sanitized to oblivion. Like look through the comments right now, how many of them are people saying the Suicide Squad is boring and tired as a team. Isn't that insane? The original run had characters like Doctor Light, Bronze Tiger, the Atom, Lashina Slipknot, and real person Grant Morrison on it. It was such an insane rotating cast of characters with completely different moralities, powerlevels, skill sets, relevancy and yet one of the big complaints of most modern lineups is how boring, samey and useless each team is, that shouldn't be possible given the source material. Like even if we HAD to do the idea of the team needing to neutralise superheroes it's insane how much of a shot in the arm making them F-listers is to the concept. Because imagine this games concep but your team is made up of the likes of Polka dot man, Nightshade, Bronze tiger, and Ratcatcher. Instantly this is more engaging. From a comedy level it's way funnier if you play into the angle of them being villains and antiheroes so minor the League barely remembers they exist. Interms of character interplay they're all so different in morality to the point one of the more heroic members, Bronze Tiger, is often someone who might regret and try to avoid killing but is willing to do so for the greater good or even revenge meanwhile one of the out and out Villains Polka dot man is practically a Doofenshmirtz tier character who just makes needlessly elaborate themed gadgets to do petty crime. He's practically an Adam West foe, so imagine putting him into a situation where he's forced to kill someone, there's inherently something both darkly comedic about that but also kinda heartbreaking that could be utilised for some genuine engaging character drama. But also, in perhaps the dumbest point, this tier of character actually COULD be a threat to a Justice League. Like you never think about it but take polka dot man again. Literally, on the cover of his first ever appearance, the first thing you ever see him do is throw a miniature red sun. These goofy villains like him, or Ratcatcher or even animal/vegetable/mineral man usually have an actually insane capacity for destruction but they never really realise it because they are kinda stupid. Polka dot man could sell his tech to the military for millions but he chooses to rob banls because he wants to make batman look stupid. His dots can make him fly, open portals, turn into a giant buzzsaw and more, he could very easily defeat of Batman if he was just a better strategist. So if you had a story where people like Waller and Flag we're feeding your team strategies to utse their powers in creative ways (a good way to incorporate tutorials btw) as they grow in confidence and competence to the point where they can properly utilise their unintentionally kinda busted silver age powers you'd have a actual plausible way to beat the heroes and with a more diverse morality spectrum you could have the characters like Nightshade, Bronze tiger or (depending on the version) in his own way Polka dot man actually grapple with and mourn the heroes passing to actually give some gravitas to these moments. I know I've gone on way to long here but I'm just so disappointed by such a fun concept continually being squandered for the simple reason that interesting concepts sell less than Harley Quinn funko pops or whatever

There are actually a number of Suicide Squad members in the comics that could beat the JL or give them a run for their money. Unfortunately, they aren't featured in this game or the live action movie.

This game honestly could've been it's own fun, unique self contained thing,if they didn't feel the need to be a canon continuation of the Arkhamverse. Wish they gave us a Batman Beyond, Justice League, or even a Superman game instead, especially when ao many people have asked for one. I am severely praying the Monolith Wonder Woman game ends up being good, the character deserves a win🙏🏾

I’m gonna ignore this exists. Gotham Knights does have a better Batman.

I just want a Superman game for gods sake. Please, someone at rocksteady or WB’s has no freaking clue what the fans like or even want. It’s time we please get a Superman game. Superman deserves his own game.

Bad games failing gives me hope for humanity.

20:24 They saw that comic strip and said “let’s pretend that didn’t happen”

And the worst about this is that, this is not the same Rocksteady that we used to know. The original founders left after Arkham Knight I believe and formed their own studio. Now, it's filled with new faces that look like they don't even give a damn.

suicide squad kill the justice league was always doomed to fail from the very beginning to its end in my opinion

If WB Games gives you another review code despite the "tough love" they'd be real asf for that.. but who knows how they'll react 😂

This seriously might be the fastest death of a Triple A game to ever happen

I am of the opinion that this should've been more like Fire Emblem than a looter shooter, even Marvel already somewhat learned that with Midnight Suns

I do not understand why every version of Harley Quinn has to be the same nowadays.

And now a vr arkham game Man wb is cooking in the same way chernobyl was cooking

I bet my life savings that rocksteady will release an Arkham Asylum remake to try to regain trust from their fanbase.

Live service and super hero games just don't mix

Glad it’s not just me who still hates Tara Strong’s Harley voice.

You know what’s a good counter measure against the JL? The goddamn Teen Titans. Think about it, some of them are sidekicks of the major heroes, they’d know how to defeat these people. Maybe Nightwing could even be given access to the JL counter measures and would have to use them on the JL, idk but it makes more sense to have them than the suicide squad

8:12, what a great way to express it, you're spot on. But that map is UGLY. Once again, they somehow found a way to make a bright blue sky seem dim, and they stuck that blasted sunset filter over everything that saturates the colors like it's permanently golden hour. Yellows become orangey, greens become puke, and blue becomes dull grey-green. Tired of seeing this in games.

11:25 this is why i'm curious how the Thunderbolts* movie is gonna pan out, bc most of that team is super soliders with one girl that actually has unique powers, but NO ONE on that squad will survive a 1 second encounter with Sentry based on what little i know of the man 😂

Thanks to 4th Snakes latest video it’s become incredibly likely that this game also tanked M1K. The idea goes that due to this game being delayed for the 40th time WB made NRS release M1K 6 months ahead of schedule so they’d have a new game released at the end of 2023. So if you don’t like M1K for feeling like a poorly thought out rush job thank WB for that.

Really good comparison to inFamous, can't believe I didn't even think about that. Man, I wish they would remaster those games instead of Last of Us and Horizon a dozen times.

DC keeps pushing The Suicide Squad and exactly who likes it????

22:42 no joke someone made a tweet how this game should about batman freeing each member of the league and that way unlocking a new way of gameplay.

I don't think this is in the Arkham universe...it's like one universe to the left

23:20 Robin was, I would assume, left feeling greatful that he was saved by Bruce, so much so he still looked up to him in the Arkham Knight dlc, Nightwing was ok with doing his own thing in Bludhaven nd even came back to beat the Penguin again, Idk which of the last 3 are Alfred, Barbera, or Gordon but Alfred wanted to make sure Bruce was doing the right thing with the Knightfall protocol, Barbera and Bruce LITERALLY had the whole mission of protecting the GCPD building from tanks and militia henchmen, AND Gordon was elected Mayor and thanked Batman for keeping Gotham safe Did Bruce treat some of them like shit some of the time? Yeah. Would a game where he starts relying o them more be cool? Absolutely. I still don't think any of these characters would literally spit in the face of Bruce just because of what happened on one of the most eventful nights in Gotham City history though.

Something truly horrible happened to Rocksteady. Warner Bros. farted in their brains.

Fun fact, spent $70 and got what I deserved, deadshot spawns under the map no matter what and I cannot progress or even switch him out. Than to add insult to injury I asked Xbox for a refund, made the reason the game straight up doesn’t work and they told my to go screw myself, so now my library has this game I can never play, as a constant reminder to listen to everyone when they say it’s not worth it

I have never been so happy to see a game flop like this one has. Also, does anyone else wish that Hynden Walch would be the new default Harley Quinn instead of Tara Strong?

I'm glad I never bothered giving this game a chance, no interest in looter shooters, charging a crap ton of cash for cosmetics, and all the problems that aren't the justice league getting offed. The fact that the game got put on sale not long after it's release is telling.

As soon as I saw the giant Arkham Fear Toxin Batman my first thought was “Oh it’s one of these”

The end pitch for a game about Batman's off-screen development is now my personal canon ending to the Arkhamverse.

I chose to believe this is not canon to the Arkham games no matter what anyone says.

Watching the cutscenes on youtube out of curiosity and seeing that the ending was just "now do that another twelve times, loser!" is one of the only times I've actually found myself get angry at a game I had never played before. Like, bad endings are commonplace but "yeah maybe we'll give you a resolution in a year if you keep grinding" just hits different

At least injustice had superman build up all the way to a Final Boss that can be pretty difficult on hard.

I don't think you'll be getting another review copy from WB😂

Expecting gamers to pay extra money for a game they already bought is kind of a scummy thing do. Especially when most if not all of the unlockables can only be obtained through digital currency. It just takes the fun out of completing a tough mission if you still need to pay for the thing that should have earned through gameplay alone.