Injustice: Gods Among Us is coming in April, and as a kid who grew up reading DC, I kinda can't wait.
Warner Bros. has been baiting nerds with a series of videos showing the fights in the game; you vote on two characters, and then you see how the vote plays out with a gameplay video.
It's actually been fairly interesting because we get a strong sense of how the game works. Here are all the videos posted so far, and what we can glean about the game from them.
Bats and Bane square off in what appears to be this game's version of the Watchtower. It's a nice touch that the environmental combat literally brings down the house, and it's interesting that Batman has a lot of ground based combos (notice that mix of slide kicks that he uses to end Bane).
Harley and Wondy squaring off in Arkham. Of particular interest is that character seem to interact with the environment in different ways: Harley doesn't have the strength to bash Diana with a chandelier, so she uses it as a platforming element instead.
Also, those are some pretty lengthy animation times for those harder hits. And it looks like they are limited the Bats rogues gallery on this one: If Croc, Riddler, Penguin, and others are locked up in Arkham they're probably not fighting, although this game seems to operate more on Rule of Cool rather than logic.
If nothing else, the Metropolis level really emphasizes just how much continuity porn is in this game: The final "arena" in the Superman museum had something like a dozen references to Superman across all media. Too bad we don't see Supes in this area, though.
Also, you kind of have to wonder how the Joker was even walking upright after be slammed through a dozen floors of a building.
In a lot of ways, this is the best video because the Flash and Shazam has pretty different fighting styles from the other characters we've seen. That M. Bison-esque attack Shazam has is particularly entertaining. Also, it's a nice touch that there's a little Alex Ross-esque graffiti behind the Ace Chemicals truck.
Apparently Aquaman has some of Mera's powers in this game's continuity. But the juggles he deploys look pretty interesting; he might actually be a good "utility" character.
Apparently Hal has developed a weakness to wood in this continuity. Grundy seems a solid, Zangief-esque fighter, though, and it's a cute touch that the tombstone he uses as a blunt object has his real name on it.
That said, either that's Luthor's underground lair or Cadmus is in this game.
It's a pretty exhaustive look at this game: Let us know what you think in the comments.
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To me this seems like the longest rollout of any video game ever.
Heh, there are much longer rollouts. Some games have feature length documentaries they post piece by piece on YouTube over a year.
So, wait, now that I’ve seen this, all this hype is over Mortal Combat with different characters?
Well, it is MK’s studio…
I hate the mechanics of Mortal Kombat so I was really hoping they’d switched it up for this game, but it looks like the same old bullshit.
Add some “Watchmen” or “Blackest Night” themed DLC and this could easily be the best iteration of Mortal Kombat ever.
I will be very surprised if that doesn’t happen.
And the winner of the 2013 Phillip J Frye “Shup up and take my money” award is…
Aqua mans move with the sharks was badass
Yeah, I kinda admit I want to play this game just for the super moves.
This game looks like MK with mobetta moves and characters I actually kind of like.
This looks a thousand times better than MK vs. DCU. If anyone needs me, I’ll be building a money cannon. It will have a secondary function that shoots hyperbole.
Looking better than that mess isn’t particularly hard, but I know what you mean. I’ll be curious to see how easy the environmental thing is to pull off.
The 10-year old part of my brain still wanted nothing more than to make Batman slide trip Superman, so MK vs. DCU scratched that itch for about seven minutes. I am kind of worried that they might overuse the huge environmental knock-throughs.
This looks like the kind of game where I’ll excitedly watch YouTube videos to check out the characters, stages, super moves and easter eggs….and never have any intention of actually buying it. I lost my interest in MK style fighting games back in about 1997.
Are you guys kidding me with this, “It’s just Mortal Kombat with different characters.” bullshit?
It’s actually more like a Capcom game than anything else. Go do some reading on the interwebs my friends.
It doesn’t look very Capcomesque to me, if I’m being honest. But it’d be a little baffling if it weren’t at least a little MKesque considering the developer.
So was the comic about Harley the last one in that Injustice series? It said “the end” at the end instead of “to be continued” like the earlier ones. Seems like an odd place to leave off.
the fact that they got rid of the block button makes it the best MK game ever
Not only did Solomon Grundy use a tombstone in a special move but he also uses a tombstone piledriver.
It was kinda obvious who the winner was going to be and I know that the final fight is going to be Batman V Superman because who doesn’t want to see that?