Highlights
- Monolith's Wonder Woman game might benefit from a 2024 release date to avoid potential competition and to ensure it doesn't get lost among other major releases in 2025.
- The success of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is crucial for the reputation of the entire DC video game brand, and a critical failure could have negative consequences.
- Wonder Woman could serve as a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for DC if it delivers the single-player, narrative-focused experience that fans originally wanted for other recent DC games like Suicide Squad and Gotham Knights.
DC games have seemingly hit a bit of a rocky patch recently. Much like Marvel, for the best part of three decades, DC games were often seen as a bit of a mixed bag, mostly being licensed movie tie-in games. That all changed with 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum, which broke new ground not just for DC, but for the superhero video game genre as a whole. But with the Batman: Arkham series coming to an end in 2015, DC's gone back to that mixed-bag approach, with some great titles like Injustice poking their head out of a sea of mediocrity. Right now, it's unclear just which camp Monolith's Wonder Woman will fall into.
First announced back in December 2021, it's been over two years since fans last saw anything official from Monolith's Wonder Woman game, and that initial reveal didn't give fans much to go on at all. But there is some hope that Wonder Woman is further along in development than fans may think, and a 2024 release date might be the best thing for it.
Monolith's Wonder Woman Reveal Can Be Withheld as WB's Secret Weapon
Monolith's Wonder Woman game isn't in the spotlight right now, and it could benefit from waiting for the right moment to emerge.
Monolith's Wonder Woman Should Release in 2024
Wonder Woman Might Need to Correct Course After Suicide Squad
The next game up to bat for DC is Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and right now, it's not looking so hot. Announced years ago, it wasn't until February of this year that fans got their first extended look at gameplay for Suicide Squad, and the reaction was absolutely brutal, so brutal, in fact, that Rocksteady and Warner Bros. decided to delay the game by almost an entire year.
Well, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is back from its lengthy hiatus, and Rocksteady is trying its best to convince fans that it's worth playing come its February 2024 release date. But while Rocksteady has gone out of its way to showcase more of Suicide Squad's gameplay, and it definitely looks to be in a better state than it was at the start of the year, there's still a real possibility that it ends up being pretty bad, and recent Suicide Squad leaks have only made matters worse.
If Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League ends up being a critical failure, then it could end up damaging not just Rocksteady, but the entire DC video game brand as a whole, marking the second major failure in a row following Gotham Knights' release last year. If it comes to that, then DC might want to use Wonder Woman as an immediate "get-out-of-jail-free card," presumably finally delivering the single-player, narrative-focused experience that fans originally wanted for both Suicide Squad and Gotham Knights.
Wonder Woman Might Want to Avoid an Already-Busy 2025
But another major reason for Monolith's Wonder Woman to release in 2024 and not any later is that 2025 is already beginning to look a little crowded, and a Wonder Woman game, while big, might end up getting lost in the crowd. Though only a handful of major releases have been given a 2025 release date at this point, just Grand Theft Auto 6's release alone could be enough to overshadow Wonder Woman completely if it doesn't play its cards right. On top of that, there's IO Interactive's James Bond project and Ken Levine's Judas that are allegedly slated for a 2025 release date.
Wonder Woman is in development.
