Play Station Official Magazine - UK (2020-11)

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The Big 10

STORIES EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT

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Rocksteady Studios

is ditching the cowl

for its long-in-

development new

game. Suicide

Squad: Kill The

Justice League may be set in the

same universe as the developer’s

Batman: Arkham series but we’ll be

playing as Harley

Quinn, King Shark,

Deadshot,

and Captain

Boomerang in this

all-new game.

Heading to

PlayStation 5 in

2022, this game puts four-player

co-op up front, though you can play

the entire story campaign solo and

hot-swap between the four infamous

team members.

Protagonist and antagonist

Amanda Waller has planted

explosives in the heads of our

unlikely heroes; DC’s super villains

reluctantly become part of Waller’s

secretive Task Force X. We

anticipate all is not what it seems.

“This is a continuation of the

Arkhamverse. You’ll see a lot of the

through-threads and the storylines

of those games come to fruition in

this game,” says

Sefton Hill,

co-founder and

game director

at Rocksteady

Games, during

Suicide Squad’s DC

FanDome reveal.

The game features the DNA of the

metroidvania-inspired Batman trilogy

but with new narrative and gameplay

innovations to bring Rocksteady’s

ideas up to date.

Rocksteady has chosen the

Suicide Squad because it has a

history of character-led gameplay.

“It’s all about that heart and soul of

the characters that we want to

bring to life,” explains Hill. “Suicide

Squad really spoke to us because

of how fascinating these flawed

characters are, and the fact it’s

[about] fusing these characters

together. When you’re creating a

game you’re building a universe and

you want to build it with real heart

and soul inside it, and that’s what

really inspired us to make the

Suicide Squad game.”

SQUAD GOALS

The game will combine the studio’s

trademark narrative-driven

gameplay with new third-person

shooting. Taking place in an

open-world Metropolis, each

character has unique abilities,

weapons, gear, and melee attacks

to upgrade, and different ways to

Suicide Squad take

on PlayStation 5

The Arkhamverse expands to Metropolis for the next gen

IT’S ABOUT

THE HEART AND

SOUL OF THE

CHARACTERS.

How can Superman

be killed? That’s the

question Rocksteady

hopes to answer.

team talk

“The prospect of

taking down godlike

superheroes Wonder

Woman, Green

Lantern, Superman,

and the rest of the

Justice League feels

ambitious. But if

there’s a developer

that can pull this off

it’s Rocksteady.”

Ian Dean

Editor

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02

Rocksteady Studios

is ditching the cowl

for its long-in-

development new

game. Suicide

Squad: Kill The

Justice League may be set in the

same universe as the developer’s

Batman: Arkham seriesbutwe’llbe

playing as Harley

Quinn, King Shark,

Deadshot,

and Captain

Boomerang in this

all-new game.

Heading to

PlayStation 5 in

2022, this game putsfour-player

co-op up front, though you can play

the entire story campaign solo and

hot-swap between the four infamous

team members.

Protagonist and antagonist

Amanda Waller has planted

explosives in the heads of our

unlikely heroes; DC’s super villains

reluctantly become part of Waller’s

secretive Task Force X. We

anticipate all is not what it seems.

“This is a continuation of the

Arkhamverse. You’ll see a lot of the

through-threads and the storylines

ofthosegames come to fruition in

this game,” says

Sefton Hill,

co-founder and

game director

at Rocksteady

Games, during

Suicide Squad’s DC

FanDome reveal.

Thegamefeatures the DNA of the

metroidvania-inspired Batman trilogy

but with new narrative and gameplay

innovations to bring Rocksteady’s

ideas up to date.

Rocksteady has chosen the

Suicide Squad because it has a

history of character-led gameplay.

“It’s all about that heart and soul of

the characters that we want to

bring to life,” explains Hill. “Suicide

Squad really spoke to us because

of how fascinating these flawed

characters are, and the fact it’s

[about] fusing these characters

together. When you’re creating a

game you’re building a universe and

you want to build it with real heart

and soul inside it, and that’s what

really inspired us to make the

Suicide Squad game.”

SQUAD GOALS

The game will combine the studio’s

trademark narrative-driven

gameplay with new third-person

shooting. Taking place in an

open-world Metropolis, each

character has unique abilities,

weapons, gear, and melee attacks

to upgrade, and different ways to

Suicide Squad take

on PlayStation 5

The Arkhamverse expands to Metropolis for the next gen

IT’S ABOUT

THE HEART AND

SOUL OF THE

CHARACTERS.

How can Superman

be killed? That’s the

question Rocksteady

hopes to answer.

team talk

“The prospect of

taking down godlike

superheroes Wonder

Woman, Green

Lantern, Superman,

and the rest of the

Justice League feels

ambitious. But if

there’s a developer

that can pull this off

it’s Rocksteady.”

Ian Dean

Editor