Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League trailer has a bunch of callbacks to the Arkham games

The most recent trailer for Rocksteady Studio's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which debuted at DC FanDome, doesn’t embody any gameplay footage. It does, nonetheless, have some shout-outs to the Batman: Arkham video games, which it's weirdly a form of sequel to. (It additionally has some banging music, respectable enhancing, and among the jokes land.)

For starters, the opening recreates the start of Arkham Asylum with the drive previous the “hitchhikers could also be escaping sufferers” signal, and the scene of Amanda Waller recruiting the squad is about within the sport's first fight space. (Waller isn't performed by the identical voice actor as she was in Arkham Origins, however as a substitute is voiced and mocapped by Debra Wilson, who voiced Waller in Telltale's Batman: The Enemy Inside. You might also know her from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order or Mad TV.)

Through the sequence the place the Suicide Squad gears up with assist from Gizmo, a form of evil MacGyver from the comics, a few gadgets from the Arkham collection seem. King Shark places on the bowler hat the Riddler wore in Arkham Metropolis, and Harley Quinn fires Batman's grapnel gun. Looks like Gizmo has a set of trophies and devices belonging to Arkhamverse characters, together with a bat-glider and the super-speed boomerang Captain Boomerang makes use of to zip round.

Afterward there's a junker Batmobile with a repurposed Batsignal for a headlight, which has the identical X form throughout its face because the model on prime of the GCPD constructing in Arkham Knight, although there's no trace as to who's driving it. Two extra villains from the collection additionally return: Poison Ivy is seemingly alive and properly if her vines showing on the 2.10 mark are something to go by, and the Penguin's regrown a few of his hair however nonetheless has that beer-bottle monocle embedded in his eye.

Final 12 months, Rocksteady creative director Sefton Hill described Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a hybrid between the Arkham video games and a few “highly effective, superior gunplay” in an open-world Metropolis. It'll have drop-in/drop-out co-op for as much as 4 gamers, however can apparently be performed solo too, with AI controlling whichever characters you don't choose. It's due in 2022.