Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024); read at your own caution.

About

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a spin-off from the Batman: Arkham series, both developed by Rocksteady Studios. The game follows DC Comics Suicide Squad after they are assembled by Amanda Waller to stop an alien invader named Brainiac after he brainwashes the members of the Justice League. Initial reviews for the game were mixed, given technical glitches upon the game's early release that skipped players right to the game's ending.

History

Rocksteady Studios announced Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in August 2020, with the first trailer for the game premiering that same month at DC FanDome. A YouTube^[1] upload of the trailer gathered over 10 million views in three years (seen below).

The game features actor Kevin Conroy's reprising his role as Batman for the last time following his death in November 2022. After initial delays that pushed the game's release from 2023 to 2024^[2] the game's early release Deluxe Edition was announced for January 29th, 2024. However, the game was pulled soon after its release in New Zealand due to a glitch that caused players to skip the gameplay and immediately complete the game.^[3] A statement posted to X^[4] by Rocksteady Studios addressing the issue can be seen below.

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Reception

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did not release early review codes to allow video game critics or bloggers to review the game in depth prior to its release, a decision Forbes^[5] deemed as "unusual" for a AAA game release. Game journalist and X^[6] user Parris @vicious696 speculated that the decision to withhold early reviews may have been a result of concerns over the game's reception.

Online Presence

Various fans expressed concern about the lack of early reviews, the lack of offline gameplay, and the initial glitch in the game's release. X users @GreatCheshire^[7] and @BeanWalrus^[8] made posts addressing these concerns and gathering over 20,000 and 3,000 likes respectively (seen below).

Redditors on /r/BatmanArkham, a subreddit dedicated to the original Arkham games the Suicide Squad game takes place in, expressed their reactions to the game's release as well, with /u/trophy_Hunter69420^[9] asking "Is there a lore reason why this game is fucking awful," while /u/charlesleecartman posted a meme^[10] that gathered over 1,000 upvotes in a day (seen below).

Entire subreddit after playing Suicide Squad:
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Many fans also began posting spoilers, including a cutscene showing Batman's death. Some fans of the original Arkham games found Batman's death to be in bad taste, considering that the game was Kevin Conroy's last time reprising his voice-acting role as the superhero. X^[11] user @brndxix quoted a clip of the scene saying, "they executed my goat isis style this is not the same batman i got 200 riddler trophies with 💔💔💔," gathering over 50,000 likes in a day (seen below, left).

Other fans such as @Smiles78880476^[12] defended Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and its plotline, saying that one can expect members of the Justice League to die given the name of the game (seen below, right).

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