Rocksteady Studios’ new recreation, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is famously considered one of the final instances that Batman followers will get to listen to late actor Kevin Conroy as Gotham’s Caped Crusader. And whereas longtime Arkham and Batman: The Animated Collection followers might not relish having to battle (and kill) Batman, they’ll not less than get loads of time with him in the Suicide Squad recreation — perhaps greater than you suppose.
Sure, Batman is considered one of the many unhealthy guys you must dispatch throughout the occasions of Kill the Justice League, however extra so than different league members, he’s an everyday presence in your ear. Early on in the recreation, Job Drive X is outfitted with in-ear communication units and shortly thereafter, a pc hacker aiding the Suicide Squad faucets into the comms of massive unhealthy man Brainiac’s forces — you get to listen to loads of Batman’s scheming with Flash, Inexperienced Lantern, and Brainiac, in addition to Batman’s discussions with Marvel Lady, who manages to flee being mind-controlled.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League additionally contains a good design contact: Early in the recreation, you’ll sometimes see Batman lurking in the distance, on towers and rooftops, monitoring the actions of Job Drive X. In true Batman trend, he stalks you. Try and assault him, and he’ll vanish in a cloud of bats.
And as the World’s Best Detective, evil Batman makes use of information, not simply his fists, for energy. Batman psychologically trash talks Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark, making an attempt to undermine the group’s cohesion. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League performs on these criminals’ fears in ways in which faucet into how the Batman of Rocksteady’s Arkham video games toyed along with his foes, setting traps for them and bursting forth from the shadows.
However better of all? With out spoiling it, there’s candy, sentimental Batman stuff in right here too. It’s all undercut with Suicide Squad’s fixed barrage of jokes, however there are just a few good payoffs too.
So whereas this model of Batman might not exit the manner that longtime Arkham followers have been hoping for in Suicide Squad, Kevin Conroy will get an opportunity to flex his mastery of Batman in a brand new and attention-grabbing manner for Kill the Justice League. It isn’t Rocksteady’s biggest recreation, however not less than it provides us extra of the finest man to provide Batman a voice.
