Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad Game Is Over – Now What?

U Suicide Squad he’s dead, dude. Long live the Suicide Squad… a little.

Almost a full year after its launch, Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League arrived at the end of this week with its latest major update. Said ending is a bit strange: after finally knocking down Brainiac’s last health bars, players watch an animated cutscene narrated by Harley Quinn where the Squad and the now-free living members of the Justice League that Brainiac had cloned – and had been. on the receiving end of the Team sometimes juvenile brutality– join to make the Coluan down before going to put everything in order, both in his universe and other than the various Brainaics terrorized. It’s a somewhat definite ending that also feels like it came suddenly, especially when you think about how quickly Warner Bros. wanted to clean their hands of this project.

However, the question remains Suicide Squad it’s “what’s next”, especially for Rocksteady. The answer is simple, but not yet, when we look at the contemporaries of the studio. After failing to get his Hymn reworking going, BioWare pivoted to remastering the Mass effect trilogy and begin full development Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Going by that logic, you’d think you should Batman: Arkham remasters to ease Rocksteady back into the single-player swing, but Return to Arkham exists, and Arkham Knight turns 10 this June. (WB Montreal, who did arkham origins, helped with The team development and recently cut staffas done Rocksteady shortly after.) Last June, sources said Bloomberg The immediate future of Rocksteady is helping to collect a 2023 director’s cut The Hogwarts Legacy, so… we don’t know, but it’s presumably a single-player mulligan to get the studio back on track.

Online, popular expectation and hope is another Batman game, preferably one that only writes Suicide Squad off as non-canonical or don’t address it. Now, wouldn’t the studio be better served to get out of the Batman hole and tackle another DC hero? At first The team release, various (and later broken down) the rumors stated that Rocksteady was making a Superman game, and of the high points of this game, its recreation of Metropolis is considered quite good. And if it’s not the Man of Steel, literally any other hero that isn’t Wonder Woman would do at this point. Now, this team has been working on Batman for just over 15 years, and it’s about time we let someone new take a crack at the hood, whether it’s in Gotham’s present or future.

Alternatively, it might do Rocksteady some good to break out of the DC cage completely and do their own thing. To date, his only non-DC game is his debut title, 2006’s Urban Chaos: Riot’s Answer. Something new should probably be the direction to go next Knight, but this is as good an opportunity as any to pass on. Returning to the Arkham well once again it just makes things even weirder than when we learned this was canon for those games. Having the team spend years and millions of dollars creating an excuse for a single player isn’t the best use of anyone’s time, and it’s not like we’re not getting another Bat-game. eventually. For all the fears people had that Insomniac would become a Marvel games machine, a lot has happened with Rocksteady, which is clearly full of talent who should have the opportunity to spread their wings. Recently, bad dog and Ryu Ga Gatoku they rocked their first completely new properties in years, and I’d be curious to see what Rocksteady could do outside the confines of a popular comic book property. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what an original game of sci-fi, horror, western, or any other game of this team?

In a just world, Suicide Squad It would have to come out on better, less compromised terms, or at least Rocksteady wouldn’t mind footing the bill for it. As it is, we can only hope that WB and its leadership will just let the game studio figure out what it wants to do with what’s best, and cook from there. Other studios have recovered from the worst, but the ability to walk away from less-than-stellar titles isn’t guaranteed to all developers these days, and this would be a full-circle moment for a team that’s built a lot of good will now

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