Highlights

  • Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season content landed with a thud, as the game faces valid criticism and disappointment from fans.
  • Joker's new "World's Worst Detective" skins was one fun season 1 addition, but it also reminds fans of a long-gone DC game, Gotham City Impostors, with a striking resemblance to the Jokerz gang.
  • Despite Suicide Squad's troubles, fans reminisce about Gotham City Impostors, hoping for a revival of its unique mulitplayer style in a future DC game.

Released back in February, these last few months have been pretty grueling for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and any fans who were still holding out hope for it. Following a disastrous gameplay reveal in 2023, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had an uphill battle ahead of it, but it's continued to stumble at every possible hurdle, including its recent Season 1 content launch.

One of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's last shots at redemption, its first season of post-launch content dropped just a few weeks ago, and it was immediately met with another wave of loud, valid criticism. From a lack of new mission types to locking its new playable Joker behind a paywall or a lengthy grind, Suicide Squad's first season of content landed with a thud, but that hasn't stopped Rocksteady from releasing plenty of new cosmetic skins for the game's characters, one of which has ended up inadvertently reminding fans of a long-gone DC cult classic.

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Joker's World's Worst Detective Outfit References a Long-Gone DC Game

Released as part of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Season 1 update, players can pay for a range of additional skins for the new Joker playable character. Along with cyberpunk and Wild West-themed skins, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has a cosmetic pack that includes four variations of a makeshift Batman costume for the Joker. Named the "World's Worst Detective," these skins depict the Joker wearing crude cardboard versions of Batman's iconic armor and equipment, such as his utility built, cowl, and cape.

As far as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's paid skins go, the Joker's World's Worst Detective costume is actually pretty neat, with each variation being suitably bright and colorful, and it fitting the villain's persona well. But it's not the quality of this new Joker skin that's getting fans talking. From the moment this skin was first released, many long-time DC fans were quick to point out that it bears a striking resemblance to the makeshift costumes worn by the "Jokerz" gang in the long-delisted Gotham City Impostors.

Released in February 2012 for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, Gotham City Impostors was a digital-only multiplayer game that saw two teams of six battle it out in various first-person shooter modes. While the gameplay was fairly standard for an FPS of the time, Gotham City Impostors managed to catch the eye of many DC fans for its unique, tongue-in-cheek approach to the Batman mythos.

In Gotham City Impostors, players either joined a gang of vigilantes named "The Bats," who modeled themselves after Batman, or a gang of Joker-wannabes simply named "The Jokerz." One of the core hooks of Gotham City Impostors was its character customization, which let players equip a variety of makeshift Batman and Joker-themed costume items, many of which looked quite similar to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's new Joker skin. Unfortunately, Gotham City Impostors was never a huge hit for Warner Bros., critically or financially, and the game's servers were eventually shut down in 2014, and the Steam version was eventually delisted in 2021.

Gotham City Impostors Deserves a Revival

But while Gotham City Impostors didn't have a great reception, many fans remember it much more fondly all these years later. It may not have had the best shooting mechanics, or the most varied game modes, or the most intricate customization systems, but Gotham City Impostors did have a distinct sense of style, and it's one that many fans would love to see again from DC games. And if Warner Bros. is still planning on doubling down on live-service titles even after the disastrous launch of Suicide Squad, then a smaller-scale release like a Gotham City Impostors revival could be a safe place to start.