Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive have officially delayed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League tentatively to the vague release date of Spring 2023. Billed as a genre-bending action-adventure shooter, the game was originally slated to release sometime this year for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.
Why Rocksteady pushed Suicide Squad’s new release date to next year
Sefton Hill, the co-founder and creative director for Rocksteady Studios, has announced on his official Twitter account that he regrets having to delay the game:
“We’ve made the difficult decision to delay Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League to Spring 2023. I know a delay is frustrating but that time is going into making the best game we can. I look forward to bringing the chaos to Metropolis together. Thanks for your patience.”
We've made the difficult decision to delay Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League to Spring 2023. I know a delay is frustrating but that time is going into making the best game we can. I look forward to bringing the chaos to Metropolis together. Thanks for your patience. pic.twitter.com/VOSwTM6Zak
— Sefton Hill (@Seftonhill) March 23, 2022
The tweet comes paired with a very short original clip of the Suicide Squad team being frustrated and the last number in “2022” being quickly graffitied over with a three.
This marks the first time that Rocksteady has confirmed the delay of the release date for the game since it was reported last month by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.
From what we know so far about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, it follows the mission of the Suicide Squad team — namely, Deadshot, King Shark, Captain Boomerang, and Harley Quinn — as they attempt to save the world from The Justice League.
In a continuation of the story set in the Batman Arkham series, the alien invader Brainiac has brainwashed the powerful members of the superhero team, except for Wonder Woman apparently. And now, the Suicide Squad has been assembled by Amanda Waller to take them down — not that they weren’t going to do that from the very beginning.
Players can swap between team members in single-player with other characters controlled by the AI, while in multiplayer, up to four players can play cooperatively.
In other news, Sony is investigating the latest PS5 update which is breaking the PlayStation Network and PS Plus subscriptions, and Nintendo has finally responded to the eShop being down for about a week.
