Rocksteady Studios’ new recreation, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is famously one of many final instances that Batman followers will get to listen to late actor Kevin Conroy as Gotham’s Caped Crusader. And whereas longtime Arkham and Batman: The Animated Collection followers could not relish having to battle (and kill) Batman, they’ll at the very least get loads of time with him within the Suicide Squad recreation — perhaps greater than you assume.
Sure, Batman is among the many unhealthy guys it’s important to dispatch throughout the occasions of Kill the Justice League, however extra so than different league members, he’s a daily presence in your ear. Early on within the recreation, Job Pressure X is outfitted with in-ear communication units and shortly thereafter, a pc hacker aiding the Suicide Squad faucets into the comms of huge unhealthy man Brainiac’s forces — you get to listen to quite a lot of Batman’s scheming with Flash, Inexperienced Lantern, and Brainiac, in addition to Batman’s discussions with Surprise Girl, who manages to flee being mind-controlled.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League additionally incorporates a good design contact: Early within the recreation, you’ll often see Batman lurking within the distance, on towers and rooftops, monitoring the actions of Job Pressure X. In true Batman trend, he stalks you. Try to assault him, and he’ll vanish in a cloud of bats.
And because the World’s Biggest Detective, evil Batman makes use of information, not simply his fists, for energy. Batman psychologically trash talks Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark, trying to undermine the group’s cohesion. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League performs on these criminals’ fears in ways in which faucet into how the Batman of Rocksteady’s Arkham video games toyed along with his foes, setting traps for them and bursting forth from the shadows.
However better of all? With out spoiling it, there’s candy, sentimental Batman stuff in right here too. It’s all undercut with Suicide Squad’s fixed barrage of jokes, however there are just a few good payoffs too.
So whereas this model of Batman could not exit the best way that longtime Arkham followers have been hoping for in Suicide Squad, Kevin Conroy will get an opportunity to flex his mastery of Batman in a brand new and attention-grabbing means for Kill the Justice League. It isn’t Rocksteady’s best recreation, however at the very least it offers us extra of the most effective man to offer Batman a voice.
