Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League dev on the new Metropolis setting: "We knew we wanted to do something which would feel distinct from Gotham"
Jan. 9, 2024“We knew Gotham like the back of our hand, so to be able to work on Metropolis was really exciting”
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueis ditching the dark streets of Gotham for the city of Metropolis, an open-world playground that switches up more than just the colour palate.
In an interview with GamesRadar+, associate design director Johnny Armstrong discusses the new setting for the supervillain spin-off and how it’s the perfect place to realise the vision the team had for the game.
Having worked on Gotham for so long with the Batman Arkham series, the chance of setting was something of a breath of fresh air for the developer. “It was great to try something new,” Armstrong says. “We knew [Gotham] like the back of our hand… but it’s dark, it’s dreary. It’s rainy. It’s Gothic. And it is nighttime all the time. So to be able to work on Metropolis was really exciting.”
This sprawling city allowed the team at Rocksteady to offer an entirely new experience far removed from its Batman-focused offerings. “We knew we wanted to do something which would feel distinct from Gotham,” Armstrong explains. “We wanted to have really, really fast pace traversal. Verticality is a hallmark of Metropolis anyway, so we’ve got the different districts and whatnot. So they organically came together.”
Fortunately, allowing for that extra time seems to have paid off. GamesRadar+’s ownJasmine Gould-Wilson recently went hands-on with the shooter and had a blast.“With its kinetic traversal systems and joyful, colorful chaos, it’s a total juxtaposition to the games that came before,” she says in ourSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League preview. “Don’t let that put you off, though – this is one anti-hero shooter that dares you to have an absurdly good time, and more than follows through on the promise.”
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