Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad Game Is Over – Now What?

The Suicide Squad it’s dead, sort of. Long live Suicide Squad… sort of.

Almost a year after its launch, Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League It ended this week with its last big update. Said ending is a bit odd: after finally taking down Brainiac’s health bars, players watch a cartoon narrated by Harley Quinn, where the Squad and the now-free Justice League members cloned by Brainiac. On the receiving side of the group sometimes the brutality of teenagers— Team up to take down Colua before he sets out to fix everything he’s been terrorizing in both their universes and the various Brainaiks. It’s a somewhat definitive ending that feels rushed, especially when you consider how quickly Warner Bros. wanted to clean their hands of this project.

Anyway, the question revolves around Suicide Squad especially “what’s next” for Rocksteady. The answer is simple, but not when looking at the studio’s contemporaries. After failing to get it Anthem A reboot is in the works, BioWare is focused on the reboot Mass Effect trilogy and begins to develop fully Dragon Age: The Veilguard. By that logic, you’d think we’d need some Batman: Arkham remasters to bring Rocksteady back into the singleplayer swing, however Return to the Arkham page available and Arkham Knight turns 10 in June this year. (WB Montreal, did Arkham Origins, helped with of the group development and staff was recently cutas he did Rocksteady shortly after.) Sources said in June last year Bloomberg Rocksteady’s near future helps bring together the director’s crop for 2023 hogwarts legacy, then… we don’t know, but it’s likely a single-player mulligan to get the studio back on track.

Online, the popular expectation and hope is another Batman game, preferably one that just writes Suicide Squad disabled as non-canon or not addressed. Wouldn’t it be better for the studio to get out of the Batman hole by now and tackle another DC hero? First of the group release, various (and later exposed) rumors claimed that Rocksteady was making a Superman game, and one of the highlights of that game is that he’s resting in Metropolis. If it wasn’t for Man of Steel, literally any other hero that wasn’t Wonder Woman would do at this point. By now, this team has been working on Batman for over 15 years, and it’s about time we let someone new in Gotham’s present or future take a crack at the title.

Alternatively, breaking out of the DC cage entirely and doing something unique could serve Rocksteady well. His only non-DC game to date is his debut title, from 2006 Urban Chaos: A Response to Rebellions. Something brand new should probably be the direction to pursue knight, but it is as good an opportunity as any advancement. Returning to Arkham well that would once again make things even weirder than when we found out it was only a law for these games. Spending years and millions of dollars making the team a one-player apology isn’t the best use of anyone’s time, and it’s not like we’re not going to get another Bat-game. finally. For all the fears people had about Insomniac turning into a Marvel gaming machine, it happened a lot with Rocksteady, which is full of talented people who should get a chance to spread their wings. Recently, Naughty Dog and Ryu Ga Gatoku They’ve teased their first all-new property in years, and I’d be interested to see what Rocksteady might do outside the confines of their popular comic book property. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what an original sci-fi, horror, western or any other game from this team looks like?

In a just world, Suicide Squad it could have come out on better, less favorable terms, or at least Rocksteady wouldn’t have footed the bill for it. As it is, we can only hope that DB and its management will let the game studio figure out what it wants to do with the best and cook from there. Other studios have fared worse, but not every developer gets to walk away from top names these days, and it would be a bad full-circle moment for a team that has built up a lot of goodwill. now.

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