Rocksteady reveals Suicide Squad game — and you'll see it this month

Rocksteady reveals Suicide Team game — and you'll come across it this month

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Rocksteady, the studio backside the lauded Batman: Arkham games, now has a Suicide Squad follow-up in official development. We know that cheers to a tweet from the visitor — but that'southward nearly all we know. A Rocksteady Suicide Squad game has been the subject of rumor for a long time, and while Rocksteady has finally confirmed the news, we'll accept to wait a while earlier we learn anything else about it.

Information comes from Rocksteady's official Twitter feed. A terse tweet reads: "Target locked - #DCFanDome – August 22. #suicidesquadgame." Below that is a motion-picture show of Superman in a ruby-and-royal glow with a target on his head that reads "Suicide Team."

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Target locked - #DCFanDome - August 22. #suicidesquadgame pic.twitter.com/HrXZNKwo0fAugust 7, 2020

For those who aren't upwards on their DC Comics lore, there are a few things to unpack hither. Start off, the Suicide Team is a team of DC Comics super villains with a rotating cast. While the group has been around since the '50s and has included a veritable who'south who of villains, popular members in recent teams include Harley Quinn, El Diablo, Deadshot and Helm Boomerang. Generally speaking, the Suicide Team bands together not to commit crimes, simply to run shady missions for government organizations that superheroes would never take.

(There was also a profoundly disappointing Suicide Team motion picture in 2016. The less said about it here, the better.)

The tweet itself doesn't requite us much to work with, although it'due south not really meant to. Instead, it conveys that we'll learn more information virtually the game on August 22 at the DCFanDome online event. (To access DC FanDome, but log into the official DC FanDome website anytime on Baronial 22; the effect will run for a total 24 hours.) We can also infer that the game's full general premise volition involve the Suicide Squad hunting down Superman in some capacity, although whether that's the whole story, one particular mission or fifty-fifty just a crimson herring for the teaser post is anyone's judge.

We also don't know what kind of game Suicide Squad will be, although nosotros can take a few guesses from Rocksteady's previous DC titles. Chances are skilful that you'll accept command of a super villain and fight off enemies with fashionable, counterattack-based melee combat. Exploring big (possibly open up-world) environments to unearth secrets and upgrades would also be familiar territory.

On the other hand, it's possible that Rocksteady could go in a dissimilar direction, peculiarly since Suicide Squad is a squad rather than a lone hero, similar Batman. Some kind of multiplayer component is possible, or perhaps mission-based gameplay to reverberate the Suicide Team's mercenary nature. The after Batman: Arkham Games experimented with switching among dissimilar characters, depending on the mission — nosotros've actually already played as Harley Quinn — and information technology seems incommunicable that a Suicide Team game would bandage players as only a single character.

We'll know more on August 22. If you desire to get your Suicide Team fix in the meantime, I'd recommend picking upwards the comics and steering clear of the picture.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of scientific discipline and technology. Afterwards hours, you can discover him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.