Summary
The following contains story and gameplay spoilers forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Rocksteady’sSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguehas had a rough go of it so far when it comes to reception, but what good it brings to the table in terms of story, characters, and gameplay is difficult to deny. As the spiritual successor to theBatman: Arkhamseries,Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguefollows in the footsteps of Rocksteady’s beloved franchise while simultaneously shedding new light on familiar characters in a brand-new engaging story experienced from a rather compelling perspective.
AlthoughSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguedoes resolve many of its major plot points by the time the credits roll, the conclusion to its main story is still significantly open-ended. After all,Kill the Justice Leagueis a live-service game, so Rocksteady needs to ensure the game has plenty of room for more content in future updates. As such, aside from the content roadmap that the developer has shared both in-game and out,Kill the Justice League’s current endgame activities suggest a similar path for the future.
The Justice League and Earth-1’s Brainiac Are Dead
The bulk ofSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s main storyis summed up in its title: killing the Justice League. As such, players spend most of their time throughout the game’s narrative looking for methods they can use against Brainiac’s mind-controlled Justice League and then taking them down for good. Once players have defeated Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman, however, they are then tasked with subduing Brainiac.
Unfortunately, they learn along the way that there are 13 Brainiacs that need to be eliminated, all spread throughout the multiverse and working together to conquer it.
After their first combat encounter with a Flash-like Brainiac in another realm, the squad transports his corpse to Luthor from Earth-2 andKill the Justice League’s Amanda Waller, who then stabs Brainiac in the head with a special device used to harvest information from his mind, leaving him to die in the process. From here, the Suicide Squad receives confirmation that they have twelve more Brainiacs to kill in other universes, resulting in an open-ended conclusion forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueand paving the way for its endgame and future content.
It’s unclear whether Rocksteady will decide to somehow revive the Justice League moving forward, but players shouldn’t rule out the chance, given the developer’s history withresurrecting dead characters like Poison Ivy. Nevertheless, Rocksteady has a healthy roadmap of content lined up forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and the current endgame activities likely set the tone for what that content will look like.
Currently,Kill the Justice League’s endgamecontent revolves around completing Incursion Missions in the Elseworlds to earn a unique set of Infamy weapons and gear tied to the DC character Bane. Players can increase the difficulty of Incursion Missions by increasing its Mastery Level, which adds enemy mutators and weather to each activity and thereby improves the rewards it offers upon completion.
As players complete increasingly difficult Incursion Missions, they then earn Finite Crisis ranks, which determine the tier of Bane Infamy gear they receive upon completing an Incursion Mission. Obviously, this all comes back to eventually taking down Brainiac’s forces once and for all.
This endgame loop will likely continue asSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueadds new content when its seasons begin in March. However, Rocksteady has already confirmed the addition of new environments, new stories, and new characters in future updates, so this loop may evolve beyond where it is currently. That being said, players should expect to continue completing activities similar to Incursion Missions and increasing their rank to obtain gear and rewards tied to other DC characters until the Brainiac army is dealt with.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
WHERE TO PLAY
Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
