There's reverence for the DC Universe in each menu screen and every matchup-specific line of dialogue. This is Injustice's greatest feat, and Ultimate Edition drives that home further by including the additional six characters that have come out since launch. NetherRealm took 24 characters, many of whom have never been seen in a video game, and translated their abilities and personas over beautifully. The cast is varied, interesting, and thankfully devoid of ninja lookalikes – more than I can say for Mortal Kombat 9 at its launch. Ultimate Edition certainly isn’t ugly by any means, but even compared to other cross-generation titles, it only looks good rather than great.ĭespite this, it still manages to capture the godlike abilities of DC's finest. Outside of looking sharper and smoother, the move to next-gen hasn’t done much else in terms of effects or post-processing, resulting in a fighter that looks decidedly less impressive than say Killer Instinct. It's only because the in-fight graphics usually look so crisp that this dip in visual quality seems so stark, especially since the game is now running natively at 1080p/60fps. Closeups on main characters look good, but when the in-engine cutscenes attempt to depict clashing armies or sweeping cityscapes, bland textures and shoddily modeled buildings erode the visual impact a bit, and neither the PS4’s or PC’s beefier internals do nothing to change that fact. The story mode’s primary fault is that its reach exceeds its artist’s grasp. In fact, much of the original JL voice cast is in action here, including the inimitable Kevin Conroy as the Dark Knight himself and George Newbern as Superman.
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This isn't about a mopey alien who just wants somewhere to belong, it’s about a god who's decided his subjects no longer deserve free will.Īs heavy as it sounds, Injustice still finds time for the same kind of action, adventure, and humor that made the Justice League animated series such a treat. We've seen him “retire” in Kingdom Come, and watched him wreck shop whilst being mind-controlled a few billion times, but this is a far darker spin than all that. What if Superman lost faith in humanity and, with his near-infinite power, decided it was time to stop protecting and start ruling? Without ruining anything, you've rarely seen Supes quite like this before. For its first trick, Injustice does something that few fighting games ever even attempt to do: tell an interesting story.