Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck YMMV)
Current goal: Finish the main story

I was really into the opening hours of Suicide Squad, the new game from Rocksteady. It moves along quite nicely in those opening hours and has a lot of fun introducing its characters and setting up the situation—a large invasion of Metropolis by aliens. But with each passing hour, I feel like I’ve discovered that the game is mostly the same four or five missions repeated over and over again, split up by some really nice cutscenes.

Sure, the combat is super satisfying and I enjoy the writing a lot. There are pieces of a really good game here, but they’re buried under the demands of a live-service game. As a result, it often feels as if it’s trying to be something bigger than it needs to be, and faking it by padding everything with filler missions and repetitive objectives. At one point a mission had me escorting a slow-moving vehicle and I was excited to just be doing something different for a change.

Anyway, my goal this weekend is to finish up Suicide Squad and start working on a review for Kotaku. I’ll have much more to say about the whole experience then, but for now, I’d suggest folks wait before leaping into this latest live-service shooter. — Zack Zwiezen

And that’s what we’re playing this weekend! What are you looking to spend some time with in the next couple of days?