When is the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League release date? The upcoming Suicide Squad game is the follow-up to Rocksteady’s iconic Batman: Arkham series. Promising a roster of heroes gone bad, intriguing cooperative combat, and plenty of self-aware, irreverent humor, there’s a lot to be excited about, and we’ve compiled all the information about it right here.
Set in a chaos-covered Metropolis, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League flips the script on who’s good and evil in the DC universe. In a twist on the usual superhero game format, we’re tasked with bringing down the corrupt versions of the iconic heroes from the Justice League. It seems the only group capable and vaguely willing to stop them is a new ragtag Suicide Squad, assembled by the ruthless Amanda Waller. After the brilliant Arkham series, we’re expecting big things from what could be one of the best PC games of next year. Here’s everything we know so far about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, including the release date, trailers, gameplay, and more.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League release date
The Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League release date is Friday, February 2, 2024. The latest delay was announced by Rocksteady on Twitter, where the developer claimed the “necessary decision” would help to provide the “best quality experience”.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is scheduled to launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League gameplay
In the official gameplay trailer, ‘Flash and Burn’, each character’s skills were showcased during what appeared to be a large-scale combat mission. While this spotlight didn’t showcase any of the on-screen UI, it did shine a light on each character’s move set when facing different enemy types.
The Harley Quinn gameplay trailer shows her swinging across rooftops, and battering enemies up close and at a distance. She appears to be armed with comically-styled confetti bombs, a handgun, and, of course, her signature bat. Using acrobatic swings heavy with her typical flair, Harley can be seen pulling off mounted attacks, big kicks, and leg sweeps.
King Shark’s brute force was made clear with shots of the ‘ocean’s true ruler’ scaling buildings and cannon-balling into massive groups of enemies. In the gameplay trailer, he can also be seen using his overwhelming strength to grab and snatch at larger foes. King Shark can be seen wielding heavy weaponry later in the trailer, cementing his slower character build. In addition, Hill confirmed twin cleavers to be part of his combat set via DC Fandome Panel.
DC straight-shooter Deadshot is seen performing aerial assaults thanks to his jetpack and is armed with what seems to be a custom semi-automatic weapon. As he flies through hordes of enemies, Deadshot appears to offer aerial support to other team members of the Suicide Squad. Where Harley’s super swings are short-lived, it seems that Deadshot is likely to have a lot more airtime—touting himself as the ‘Eye in the Sky’. Deadshot can also use wrist cannons and a ‘fuel dump’, which will cause multiple enemies to catch on fire, dealing some handy area of effect damage.
Rounding out the group, rogue Aussie Captain Boomerang is the ‘speed demon’ of the group and can be seen boosting across all areas of the map. Armed with a boomerang and shotgun, Captain Boomerang can blast through enemies with heavy shots, perform brutal close-up attacks, and warp to hard-to-reach spaces using his boomerang throw to achieve mind-boggling jumps.
The story and gameplay trailer also show ways in which each squad member will traverse Metropolis, including jet packs and grapple hooks, as they swing between city skyscrapers while talking about their next mission.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League trailers
Several official Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League trailers have been released. The ‘Flash and Burn’ gameplay trailer mentioned above, a ‘Ticking’ story trailer, and two reveal trailers. One titled ‘Alpha Target’ features a murderous purple-eyed Superman, and the other titled ‘Shadows’ features a killer Batman accompanied by a simple but powerful tribute to the late Kevin Conroy, who will reprise his role as the gruff-toned DC titan.
In the action-packed story trailer ‘Ticking’, we see the four playable characters in this iteration of the Suicide Squad: Harley Quinn, Deadshot, King Shark, and Captain Boomerang. With clever coercion and nano-bomb implantation, courtesy of Amanda Waller, this scrappy group of criminals becomes Task Force X. Their mission? To kill the Justice League, of course.
Full of quip-rich dialogue, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has the crew constantly making fun of each other and the corrupted high-ranking members of the Justice League. Wonder Woman, The Green Lantern, The Flash, Superman, The Penguin, and Gizmo are all visible throughout the ‘Ticking’ trailer, working with and against Task Force X. Some eagle-eyed fans also found reason to believe Superman arch nemesis Lex Luthor may make a cameo. The overarching villain, however, is yet to be officially confirmed. Though, DC’s Brainiac has been pointed to by fans after trailers showcased a large purple skull ship looming over Metropolis’s skyline.
This extended gameplay reveal from State of Play gives us a deeper look at the open world of Suicide Squad, and how the team works together to achieve their goals. In the video, the squad is tasked with taking down a huge cannon that is wreaking havoc on the city. We see Deadshot providing air support, King Shark bulldozing his way through enemies, Boomerang using the Speed Force to take down tens of enemies and Harley beating anything that moves with her trusty baseball bat.
There was a new trailer at The Game Awards 2023 “No More Heroes” featuring a slowed-down version of Happy by Gorillaz. This trailer gives us a closer look at the brainwashed Justice League, as well as an extended view of the city.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League story
In a 2021 DC FanDome Panel, Rocksteady creative director Sefton Hill gave some insight into the setting, gameplay, and how the story will progress from the Arkham series. In a short Q&A, Hill explained that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be a continuation of the story threads found in the Arkham series. We’ll see characters, like Penguin, from the Arkham games, show up to help the Suicide Squad – whether they like it or not.
According to Hill, the team wanted to maintain their patented “superhero empowerment meets powerful gunplay” style. Hill added that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s gameplay will feature a richer move set and requires more skill to master than the Batman: Arkham Series. This level of detail was touted to be maintained across each playable member of the Suicide Squad, and a weapon system that develops as you play was teased.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set in the once-great city of Metropolis; DC fans will recognize it as Superman’s PO BOX. In a DCFanDome interview, Hill described the cityscape as the ‘fifth character’ in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Rocksteady’s love letter to the fans.
In the latest story and gameplay trailer above, we can see our Suicide Squad facing an army of corrupt citizens in Metropolis, as well as various Justice League characters including Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman. All under the spell of Brainiac, the Suicide Squad will have to take on these epic superheroes in boss fights, as they make their way through the derelict city.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League weapons
In the State of Play Game Overview, we were given a closer look at how the guns in Suicide Squad will work. There are six different categories of guns: assault rifles, SMGs, sniper rifles, shotguns, miniguns, and handguns. Each weapon is fully customizable, both in terms of the core attachments, affecting how the fun will perform, and you also how each gun looks.
There are also special variations of these guns that take on an attribute of another DC villain. In the State of Play video, the developers mention an assault rifle that has Bane’s essence – green venom erupts whenever you fire the weapon and is accompanied by unique voice lines and sound effects, as well as various buffs.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League characters
There is a huge roster of heroes and villains in Suicide Squad, with the lines on who is what well and truly blurred after Brainiac takes over. Here is every confirmed character in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League:
- Amanda Waller
- Harley Quinn
- Deadshot
- King Shark
- Captain Boomerang
- Superman
- Batman
- Green Lantern
- The Flash
- Brainiac
- Penguin
- Hack
- Toy Man
- Gizmo
Is Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League multiplayer?
The DCFandome Panel shed some light on how players work through the campaign. Hill explained that the game is a one to four-player co-op experience. Bots will make up the rest of the team during the single-player campaign, and you’re able to take control of any Suicide Squad member at will. No matter where they are in the game, players can open up their campaign to online friends and replace the bots at their leisure, or join a friend to help them out.
That’s all the information we have on the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League release date. Be sure to check out the Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League system requirements to see if your PC is up to the task. There aren’t too many four-player co-op games to play these days, so this title might need to be added to our list of the best multiplayer games. While you’re here, don’t forget to check out our list of the best upcoming games to discover what else is coming out soon.