46. Injustice 2I’m not the biggest superhero guy by any stretch, but the colorful character designs and various superpowers really lend themselves well to fighting games. Between the over the top supermoves, tons of unique intro dialogue, mid-battle mini-dialogue scenes in the form of Clashes, and the crazy stage transitions, the Injustice games are extremely cinematic looking for the genre and just a lot of fun even if you don’t play fighting games at a high level. NetherRealm does a really good job of making nearly every character fun to use.
Storywise the game justifies the premise by telling an alternate timeline “What if Superman was pushed over the edge and went full dictator?!” tale. It’s pretty hokey and contrived, but hey what do you expect from a fighting game story (though apparently the Injustice comics are actually pretty good). I might be jumping the gun a bit picking a game so new, but I liked the first game a lot and Injustice 2 builds on a very solid foundation and makes a lot of smart tweaks and additions. I might favor the cast of the first Injustice a bit (we’ll see how the dlc roster shakes out) and think it had a somewhat better collection of supermoves and stage transitions, but the second one just plays a bit smoother, faster, and just more enjoyable overall.
Any other entries worth playing?There isn’t a lot of reason to go back to the first one, but it’s a quality game that’s got some really fun characters that didn’t make it over to the sequel (like my main Batgirl
). Worth grabbing for cheap if nothing else. And weirdly Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, while not a great game by any means, is actually where a lot of the presentation and design ideas of Injustice and the recent Mortal Kombat games came from. Looking back it’s actually kind of fascinating.