PlayStation 5 Critic Reviews

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is a great game for a certain type of player, having all the hallmarks of a fantastic single-player cinematic experience. It features a great story, excellent voice acting, beautiful environments, and captivating characters, but it all feels cut short to service this live-service model. I had a lot of fun playing through, and I’ll likely dive more into the end-game grind. Still, I still can’t help but ask: What if?

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a visually stunning anti-hero romp that's fun to play, even if the things you're actually doing are somewhat repetitive. Rocksteady's Arkhamverse comes to a close in style, without fully succumbing to the live-service demons.

There is plenty of wild action and adventure to be had in Suicide Squad. And it is certainly worth a look if you like the idea of a decent mix between games like Guardians of the Galaxy, Gotham Knights and Sunset Overdrive.

It’s not about to make you forget Rocksteady’s other games, but it’s not trying to, either. It’s a game that’s all about the simple joys of soaring through the air, blowing away aliens, and making funny quips afterwards – and there are far worse things for a game to be.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League owes nothing to anyone. It may feel like sandpaper for those expecting something completely different but it contains an expertly designed combat and movement system made by a team that knows how to make super heroes and now, super villains, play. An arguably inconsistent narrative and repetitive mission structure bog down an otherwise exciting, stylish, and humorous campaign. Thankfully, a wealth of player-friendly decisions spell hope for an engaging endgame that will maintain a community somewhere along the Elseworlds.

Rocksteady delivers a fun and frantic third-person shooter with a great story that shines for its characters, but falls short between the action adventure and the looter shooter. It has a deep and satisfying gameplay once mastered, but a repetitive mission design, disappointing boss fights and a constant interruption typical of this kind of games.

One cannot conceive of combining the irreverent spirit of the Suicide Squad with a formula plastered around what one considers to be the most marketable fashions at the moment. The risk is twofold, namely that of creating a game that dresses poorly around the lead characters, but also that of arriving outside, deflated fashions. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League stumbles over both of these mistakes. Yet here and there flashes of fun situations emerge, the characters have charisma, the writing is good with spikes of excellent quality, and Rocksteady knows how to do their job technically. Let's hope the live service experiments with superhero groups are over here.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a bizarre mix of sensations. The latest effort from Rocksteady Studios is a fantastic game on a narrative level, full of brilliantly written characters, completely off-the-wall situations and truly epic scenes, which moreover can count on a solid, frantic and fun gameplay even in the most messy and confusing moments, especially in co-op. It is a pity that the open world doesn't support these elements with more conviction.

Under all those daily rewards, weapons with numerical percentages and seasons full of promises, there's a Rocksteady game that's genuine funny and a blast to play. A game that's much better than we were expecting... But also a game that deserved much, much more.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is not a bad game at all. On an audiovisual level it is impressive, the movement system is a delight and as an action game it is very complete. But perhaps the most important thing is that, at the end of the day, Suicide Squad is fun.