I'm sure 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crackdown 3 is the last game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rocksteady wants 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sui♔cide Squad: Kill the Justice League to be compared to, but I came here to speak the truth and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum.
Sumo Digital's Xbox exclusive open-world game was five years in the making, launched eight years after the previous game in the series, and positioned as one of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft's tentpole releases for 2019. Given all that baggage, it was met with a yawn when critics finally got their hands on it and realized it played like an Xbox 360 game.
Rocksteady has spent even longer than that on Suicide Squad. The studio's last full-length game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Batman: Arkham Knight, launched in 2015, which puts Rocksteady in rarified territory with developers like Rockstar and Bethesda, which have taken 10 and 12 years (and counting) to follow up the most recent massively successful entries in their biggest franchises. Even then, Rockstar had 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018, and Bethesda had 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4 in 2015, then 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 76 in 2018, to make up for the lack of new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elder Scrolls and GTA content. Plus, both studios have released live content for those series' in the interim, too. Rocksteady has a lot to prove with Suicide Squad.
So, comparisons to Crackdown 3 come with negative connotations. Still, as I watched the 15 minutes of frantic new gameplay Rocksteady showed off at yesterday's State of Play, I couldn't help but draw that comparison. And, in drawing it, I found myself actually getting excited for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League for the first time in years.
That said, the game is offering a lot of things I am definitely not excited for. I'm not stoked that it's being designed around co-op and would be happier if Rocksteady was making a single-player game, like their 2011 masterpiece, Batman: Arkham City. I'm also not too happy about Suicide Squad being a live service game. Rocksteady is promising to support the game with new characters and new missions, and the promise of more is making me less interested in what will be there from the start. And, I can't bring myself to give a shit about a gear score. Underneath those very 2023 RPG forever game trappings, Suicide Squad looks like a frantic 2007 action game and that has my blood pumping.
In Crackdown 3, you play a super-powered, gun-toting agent tasked with taking out a variety of bosses ruling over chunks of land in New Providence. The story doesn't matter all that much. What you're there for is the kinetic, aerial gameplay. You can jump really high in the air, and you can upgrade your jump so you can jump even higher. You're encouraged to use this ability by hundreds of glowing orbs scattered around the city which it is your duty to collect for further upgrades. It's a 3D platformer in an open-world setting where you can throw cars and shoot guns, and that's generally as fun as it sounds.
Though Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is being sold as the game you and your friends will pick up and play for years to come, I'm more interested in what Rocksteady showed of the moment-to-moment to gameplay. If that feels as good as it looked in the State of Play, I can't wait to jump, swing, and shoot my way across Metropolis. Suicide Squad will be more complicated than that, but it really doesn't need to be.