Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

Play it on: Xbox, PC
Buy it from: Amazon |Best Buy
Current goal: Play more co-op with my wife

Suicide Squad isn’t likely to make it on anyone’s best games of 2024 list. It won’t be on mine. But while the game is flawed and repetitive, it can be fun to play with a friend. Or in this case, my wife. We recently finished Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and were looking for our next big co-op game to play between Fortnite sessions. And we both realized that, hey, she never played Suicide Squad. And she loves Harley Quinn.

So she downloaded it and we tried playing. And uh…well, Suicide Squad is still a mess all these months later. It’s almost like the game doesn’t want you to play it with other people. But once we got into a match and started playing, it was fun to have her around. But it also highlighted that I don’t think Suicide Squad (and many other co-op-focused games) are actually better with people.

In fact, it’s kind of wild how easy it is to forget you’re even playing with another person in Suicide Squad. The action is too hectic and the combat too wild to really coordinate with one and other. Missions also happen so fast that sometimes it felt like I couldn’t get to her before she had finished the activity. Not a great experience. It makes me wonder if this game even needed to be a live service online thing…—Zack Zwiezen