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Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League – the only thing this squad is killing is player interest (pic: Warner Bros.)

In what is sadly not much of a surprise Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has been revealed to be always-online.

We’re not sure why Sony opted to have Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad game be the main attraction of its most recent State of Play, considering it’s a title no one seems to have wanted in the first place.

Granted, this was an opportunity for Rocksteady to turn public perception around and generate some actual hype for it. After all, Square Enix’s Guardians Of The Galaxy didn’t look very promising in its first reveal, but it wound up being a really great game.

Unfortunately, even after roughly 15 minutes of gameplay and developer insight, Suicide Squad continues to underwhelm, and now it turns out that this totally-not-a-live-service-title will require a constant internet connection even when you’re playing on your own.

Suicide Squad was always pitched as a co-op game that you would play through with a group of friends, each one taking control of their favourite/least hated member of the titular squad.

However, Rocksteady, especially during the State of Play, insisted that you can play the whole game solo, with the other three characters being controlled by the game.

If you are one of those solo players, you’ll need to make sure you have a steady Internet connection because you won’t be able to play the game otherwise.

This entire situation is no different to what Bethesda and Arkane are doing with Redfall. Much like Suicide Squad, that is a game with a strong focus on four player co-op that demands you stay online all the time, even in single-player.

What’s also similar, is that neither game bothered to mention this fact in public and left fans to discover the truth in each title’s respective website FAQs.

This only lends further credence to the theory that Suicide Squad was originally meant to be a live service game and Warner Bros. and Rocksteady got cold feet. It’s already known that the game will get a battle pass after launch, albeit one that only contains cosmetics, as well as extra story missions and playable characters (we’re hoping for Clock King).

No doubt Warner Bros. saw how opinion was turning against microtransactions and how poorly Square Enix’s Avengers was faring and wanted to avoid the same fate. Although at least Avengers had the common courtesy to let you play its single-player content offline.

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General fan response is unsurprisingly negative, with some seeing it as the final straw that kills their interest in the game. Even those that still plan on playing it aren’t as excited as they once were.

It’s also been pointed out that since this means the game will become completely unplayable once the servers shut down, we’ll lose Kevin Conroy’s final performance as Batman, which he recorded dialogue for before his death this past November.

Honestly, Suicide Squad doesn’t look awful from a gameplay perspective and we expect it to still offer some entertainment value, despite its uninteresting premise.

But with every new detail only draining player interest further, it’s looking like it will, perhaps appropriately given the title, end up dead on arrival.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League launches for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC on May 26.

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