Highlights

  • Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League fails to live up to expectations with repetitive missions and lackluster content in its first season.
  • Despite some finding fun in the game's humor and gameplay mechanics, the latest content drop disappoints fans with minimal new story elements.
  • With a dwindling playerbase, the midseason update for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will need more than just reskins to survive the season.

The first major video game industry punching bag of 2024, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has not been the hit that Rocksteady, Warner Bros., or fans hoped it would be. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had been the focal point of criticism long before its launch, and the game's eventual release didn't really help things. Incredibly repetitive missions, a severe lack of enemy variety, some disappointing boss fights, and a half-finished story were just some of the biggest criticisms surrounding Suicide Squad on launch.

Even despite an abundance of issues, some fans found the fun in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, pointing to the game's funny script, unique traversal mechanics, and engaging combat as reasons to stick around after the credits rolled. Those fans have been patiently waiting for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season of live-service content, believing it could be the thing to save the game from a premature death. But Suicide Squad's first season didn't quite go to plan, and now it's all up to the midseason update to save the day.

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's First Season Has Been Another Disappointment

When the patch notes were first revealed, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season looked like a big step in the right direction. With a whole new playable character, new weapons, a new boss fight, new Incursion mission types, and an Elseworld version of Metropolis to explore, it all sounded like it'd at least be worth checking out for those who had already bought the game. But as has been the case with almost every aspect of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, this content drop didn't quite offer what it said on the tin.

The biggest selling point of Suicide Squad's first season of content was undoubtedly its new playable character—an Elseworld version of The Joker, complete with his own unique method of traversal that looked suitably bombastic—and potentially some new story content centered around the character's induction into the titular squad. However, on launch day, fans were greeted with the news that they'd have to grind to a new "Season Rank" of 35 to unlock the new character for free, which reportedly takes around 6 or so hours to do.

To make matters worse, The Joker comes with practically no new story content, with just one visual comic introducing the character, and one cutscene seeing him meeting the Squad.

But that's just the tip of a very disappointing iceberg. The new Incursions that The Joker brings are all incredibly repetitive and overly simple, requiring players to kill a certain amount of a specific type of enemy, with the only upside being a reskinned version of Metropolis.

The boss fight against Brainiac is also incredibly disappointing, essentially just being a reskinned Green Lantern fight from the base game, without any unique additions or tweaks. Finally, the Strongholds that Rocksteady had been teasing as a new "activity" were revealed to simply be reskins of open-world missions that have been in the game since its launch.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Has One More Chance to Get Things Right

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped the ball once again and its playerbase is suffering. Though the release of the Season 1 update brought around 3000 players back (according to SteamDB) to the PC version of Suicide Squad, that number has dropped to just 800, and it seems to be declining by the hour. If Suicide Squad has any hope of surviving past this season, it's going to need to pull some kind of miracle with its upcoming midseason update.

Only a reskinned Brainiac Superman fight, new infused enemy types, new weapons, and an ever-changing Metropolis are confirmed for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's midseason update, but the game needs so much more. Completely new mission types, boss fights, and some substantial story content are all necessary inclusions, though they seem very unlikely to appear anytime soon.