Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League comes out this week after several tumultuous months, and even though the press didn’t get their hands on it beforehand. For the moment, it’s a fiasco.
On paper, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has all the cards in hand to become an event on the video game market. A renowned publisher accustomed to success (Warner Bros., which still counts the tickets raised by Hogwarts Legacy). A studio that has given its credentials to adaptations with superheroes (Rocksteady and his Batman: Arkham trilogy). A particularly juicy license (DC Comics). However, while it will be available from February 2, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League observes the beginnings of a fiasco.
Like so many other video games before it, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League offers early access to the wealthiest, willing to spend €30 more to play 72 hours in advance. Monday January 29, around 12 p.m., the ball was open for certain territories, such as New Zealand. Unfortunately, the “party” turned into a nightmare: 1 hour after the release, the game became unavailable due to a critical bug, revealed by Warner Bros. on Twitter. Numerama, which purchased an Xbox copy and changed the region of its console, can confirm that everything returned to normal around 10 p.m., or 9 hours later. And 2 hours before the start of early access in France (January 30, at midnight).
Lukewarm previews, zero tests, crippled early access: how Suicide Squad misses everything
So things are not off to a very good start for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, whose game-as-a-service structure requires it to be permanently connected to servers to guarantee access (even though you can play it alone). If the preview turned sour, we wonder if the game will hold on February 2, when everyone will be able to play it. Nothing guarantees it and we can fear it.
The other point which does not bode well is the absence of tests by the press at the dawn of its launch. No media received Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League to deliver a verdict before release, as custom requires. Mohammed Aigoin, journalist for Jeux Vidéo Magazine, confirms this point in a tweet published on January 26 : “ If I may be transparent on our side too: we have (at the time of writing this post) not received Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. »
Does a press silenced as part of a communications plan mean that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is missed? Not necessarily. But this is not a very positive signal for a production of this scale. As a bonus, impressions, published a few weeks ago by certain privileged people, were not very positive. IGN bluntly headlined: “ We played it and we didn’t like it “. For this firm stance, the media was blacklisted by Warner Bros., reveals Tom Marks, in charge of testing, January 27. Passionate about the DC Comics universe and Batman games, Carole Quintaine was not kind either in her video on YouTube: “ I tested Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League: up to Arkham? It is not won. »
Finally, it must be remembered that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League suffered several delays and was heavily criticized after a lengthy presentation broadcast in March 2023. At the time, I wrote: “ I’d rather watch the Suicide Squad movie ten times than play the game, and I’m not talking about the second movie. » Today, I was still able to play it for a few hours and my immediate observation is the following: if everything is not to be thrown away, the experience seems very shaky.
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