Rocksteady Suicide Squad is over, now what?

the Suicide squad He died, sort of. Long live the Suicide Squad… sort of.

Almost a full year after Rocksteady’s launch Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League This week ended with its latest major update. Said ending is a bit of an odd duck: after Brainiac’s final health bars are reduced, players watch an animated cutscene narrated by Harley Quinn where the squad and the now-free living Justice League members who were cloned by Brainiac – and were. On the receiving end of the band Sometimes brutal events– Team up to take down Coluan before setting off to set everything right, both in their world and in another world terrorized by the Brainaics. It’s a fairly final ending that also feels like it came out of the blue, especially when you consider how quickly Warner Bros. wanted it to come out. Cleaning her hands of this project.

In any case, the question hovers around Suicide squad It’s “what’s next”, especially for Rocksteady. The answer is simple, but neither is it, when we look at the studio’s contemporaries. After failing to obtain it Anthem During the rework, BioWare focused on remastering the Mass effect Triple And start full development on Dragon Age: Veil. By that logic, you’d think we’d deserve some of that Batman: Arkham It has been redesigned to facilitate Rocksteady’s return to the single-player swing, however Return to Arkham exists, and Arkham Knight He turns 10 years old in June this year. (WB Montreal, which was made arkham Origins, Help with band Development and Recently cut staffAs he did Rocksteady Shortly after.) last June, sources said Bloomberg Rocksteady’s live-action future is helping put together the 2023 Director’s Cut hogwarts legacy, So… we don’t know, but this is supposed to be a single-player mulligan to get the studio back on track.

Online, the common expectation and hope is for another Batman game, preferably a script-only one Suicide squad Stop it as illegal or don’t process it. Now, wouldn’t it be better for the studio to dig out of the Batman hole and tackle another DC hero? before band version, various (and later expose) Rumors claimed that Rocksteady was making a Superman game, and one of the high points of this game is that the recreation of Metropolis is considered very good. And if it’s not the Man of Steel, then any other hero who isn’t Wonder Woman will do at this point. So far, this team has been working on Batman for a little over 15 years, and it’s time to let someone new take a crack at the cowl, both in Gotham’s present and its future.

Instead, it could be beneficial for Rocksteady to break out of the DC cage completely and create something of their own. So far, her only non-DC game is her first title, 2006’s Urban chaos: responding to riots. Maybe something completely new should have been the direction to follow Knight, But this is as good an opportunity as any to move forward. Back to Arkham Well, again that would make things even weirder than they were when we learned that this was the basic law of those games. Making a team spend years and millions of dollars issuing an apology to one player isn’t the best use of anyone’s time, and it’s not like we won’t get another Bat-game recently. For all the concerns people had about Insomniac turning into a Marvel gaming machine, that’s happened a lot with Rocksteady, which is clearly full of talented people who should get the chance to spread their wings. newly, Naughty dog and Ryo ga jatoko They’ve unveiled their first brand-new property in years, and I’ll be curious to see what Rocksteady can do outside of the confines of their popular comic book property. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what a sci-fi, horror, western, or other original game from this team looks like?

In a just world, Suicide squad You’ll get better terms and less exposure, or at least, Rocksteady won’t be stuck footing the bill for it. As it stands, we can only hope that WB and its leadership let the game studio figure out what it wants to do with what it’s best at, and cook from there. Other studios have recovered from the worst, but the ability to walk away with less-than-stellar titles isn’t available to every developer these days, and that would be a very bad moment for a team that has built a lot of goodwill thus far.

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