![]() ![]() I spent a lot of my online match time getting juggled across the stage by players who were infinitely better than I was. ![]() If you want to spend a couple of dozens of hours getting good with a character and then testing your skills online, this will be a game you can do that with.Īs a casual player, no matter how excited I am about the single-player story content for the game and the fight balance for that story, there is an end to how much the game is invested in my enjoyment. In my limited number of matches during the review period, I can say without a doubt that it is clearly a game that rewards mastery and has a lot of depth to it. Ultimately, no matter how much I enjoyed my time with this game and its single player Story and Multiverse modes, the real test of its longevity as a fighting game will be how it shakes down as an online fighting game. It seems that if you’re interested in these aspects, you’ll have to hop online and investigate them yourself. To be honest, I didn’t really understand how any of this actually fit into the game, and there were no tutorials or explainers that I saw within the game. It changes the way your character looks, and it also changes their basic stats. You win fights, you get experience, and sometimes you get a drop. On top of this, Injustice 2 has a character and player leveling system with an additional layer of equipment. The story mode gives you a good number of sample matches with about half of the game’s total roster of characters, and the Multiverse mode (a kind of mission-based set of fights you can do with characters of your choosing) gives ample opportunity to tactically try out all the characters you want. ![]() Each character seems to have a clear position in the field of characters: Scarecrow is a teleporting, scythe-wielding terror Supergirl blasts you with laser vision and Green Arrow does all kinds of tricks with arrows that enemies might not see coming. Although I would never suggest that I am some kind of superfan of the genre, I am always down to tinker in a Soulcalibur, Virtua Fighter, or Tekken match or two. Injustice 2 is also an engaging and solid fighting game. I feel like I am playing a comic book, and there’s very few games in the world that scratch that particular itch. I don’t think anyone would suggest that this is breaking new barriers of storytelling, and the story and the way it is told is in classic comic form, but it works here. The fight resolves, and the process continues. Heroes enter scenes, they have goals, villains enter the scene to prevent them from achieving those goals, and then a fight breaks out. Injustice 2, however, has this beautiful wax and wane that has the exact same pacing as a comic book. And, again, I dig it, but I am also often bored. Likewise, our current era of superhero film adaptations are all dragged down to one degree or the other with long scenes of people punching, kicking or shooting each other for extended amounts of time. I mean, it’s a dude punching some other dude. Over the past couple decades, the fight scene has become a form of storytelling itself the image is something to be awed by, and I am often awed, but I am just as often bored. Superman would punch Solomon Grundy, but he’d be describing the entire process to us. The fighting game genre fits the tone and pacing of superhero comics perfectly, and I will go a step further and say that Injustice 2 is the most interested I have been in a superhero story in years.Ī written and drawn comic and a film share the same problem: what does the audience do during the fights? The classic “compressed” comics before the release of books like Warren Ellis’s The Authority would pack the frame full of interior monologues or dialogue. Injustice 2 is the best translation of superhero comics to any other medium, period. I thought they were bad, or at least just something I wasn’t into. My assumption about these games (and this is why I’ve never played the first game) was that they were just excuses to goof off and relive those same arguments from childhood. So that moment where Swamp Thing showed up was sort of a surprise. But now, a few decades later, Injustice 2 exists, and if you’re good enough at the game, Batman can win every single time. There, sitting on the front lawn, it’s not really something that you can solve. You make a compelling case for why Batman is definitely winning against Superman in this scenario, and your neighbor doesn’t really buy it. I mean, at the bottom and most basic, what is Injustice 2? It’s a fighting game, sure, but it’s also a little bit like playing with action figures with your next-door neighbor when you’re eight years old. It was somewhere around when Swamp Thing showed up in Slaughter Swamp that I started to be a little bit in awe of what Injustice 2 does. ![]()
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