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TASK FORCE X

New game allows players to kill DC’s iconic superhero team

Grab some kryptonite and add some more nails to your bat, because Metropolis just became a villain’s new playground. “Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League” is a new game in the DC universe that allows players to, as the name states, kill the jus tice league.

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For those who are unaware, “Task Force X” - more com monly known as the “Suicide Squad” - is a group of supervillains assembled by U.S. Intelligence Officer Amanda Waller, for highrisk covert operations in exchange for reduced or even nullified prison sentences. Of course, not many members of this group receive such an achievement, as all of them are expendablemeaning that if one member of the group dies, another villain will take their place.

The plot of the game is that the “Suicide Squad” - com posed of Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, and King Shark - are sent on a covert mission to Metropolis. However, once the group arrives, they swiftly realize the grim reality of the situ ation: Brainiac, an alien who harvests planets to fill his collection and satiate his obsession for knowledge, has been brainwashing the innocent inhabitants of Metropolis for a full-scale invasion of Earth. To make matters worse - his influence has spread to the members of the Justice League - making them his top enforcers. Now, the Suicide Squad will have to go on a rampage to stop each member of the League before they take over the Earth in the name “Rocksteady Studios,” the creator of the game, is a British video game developing company based in London, England. This company acts as a subsidiary of “Warner Bros. Games” - with its crowning achievement being the Arkham franchise. The company was first founded in 2004, with its first game - “Urban Chaos: Riot Response” - coming out on May 19, 2006. Three years later, on Aug. 25, Rocksteady Studios developed the first game in its beloved series - “Batman: Arkham Asylum,” which depicted the tale of Batman fighting the Joker and many of his villains while trapped in Arkham Asylum. On Oct. 18, 2011 - “Batman: Arkham City” was released to the public, telling the story of Batman’s nightly crusade, only except he’s stuck in a city filled with Gotham’s criminal

At the current moment, the game’s mechanics are unknown. The only ones that are known are the fact that the game allows for four-person multiplayer and that each playable charac-

All and all, “Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League” is hopefully a game that’ll amass fans just as well as its predecessor has. The game is stated to be released on Feb. 24, 2024 - at an ex-

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