Community Review — Injustice: Gods Among Us

19 responses to “Community Review — Injustice: Gods Among Us”

1. 

   freezespreston

   April 22, 2013 at 11:12 am

   I’m really enjoying it.

   The AI and difficulty is really all over the place though. One minute it won’t let you even think about doing anything next it will sit there and accept whatever you dish out.

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   1. 

      jackunit13

      April 22, 2013 at 12:45 pm

      You’re absolutely right. If there was any single negative I would point out it would be this. Playing a Single Player Versus Match on Medium is sometimes harder than the final Boss in Story mode (on Medium.)

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   dnr

   April 22, 2013 at 11:18 am

   loving the game, has an incredible feel to it, the superpowered heroes/villians actually feel powerful.
   The levels are awesome and add so much to each fight.

   The story for single player is great, fits right into the DC universe like it belongs.
   i love the supers, as well as the “conflict” (cant remember what they are called) moves, they add another level of awesome.

   The primary gripe i have, i raised in another article, the difficulty sways too much in single player, its either impossible or so easy you feel cheated.
   Also playing via Xbox live, there is some serious lag, hits dont register, cant use the view current fight.

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3. 

   andrew

   April 22, 2013 at 11:23 am

   I honestly quite enjoyed the story mode, but was disappointed by the limited scope of characters you get to play as. I would have liked every character to get their own chapter, even if it was only one or two fights.

   The locked STAR Labs missions annoyed me, I wanted to play the awesome minigames, but quickly became frustrated by having to meet other sometimes precious requirements first.

   Overall, I’m not great at fighting games, I’d like to think I’m not absolutely terrible, but I found myself struggling with the tutorial for hours. “Press buttons after combo” “Wait, when? After the button input or the actual move?” I also have absolutely no clue on how to initiate a ‘Clash’ after days of playing.

   While I enjoyed Injustice for its’ polish and story, I’m already a bit sick of the fights. Sorry to say I’m going to be trading it in this afternoon for the new Tomb Raider instead.

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   1. 

      thewintercold

      April 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm

      The tutorial I managed to actually get through, but batman seems like a more advanced character. The should have gone with someone like sinestro who has simple specials. I still don’t know how to clash, but I’ve played the story and a dozen or so matches now and I’m really clicking with one character. I don’t think fighting games are they type that you just understand all of a sudden, I really feel like you have to work to learn every part of the game.

      That said, Grundy is OP. you go to jump? Grab out the air. Try to attack? Punches through your combo into a grab :/

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4. 

   weresmurf

   April 22, 2013 at 11:30 am

   You really thought it was a terrible name? I was actually happy they didn’t go with a stereotypical name like DC SUPERHEROES or something.

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   1. 

      eronin

      April 22, 2013 at 11:56 am

      The name should’ve been like, Injustice Crisis or something. You know, to make it rhyme. And because everybody knows there aren’t enough crises going around in the DC universe.

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         mrtaco

         April 23, 2013 at 1:19 am

         I don’t think Injustice and Crisis are rhyming words. At least, no more rhyming than something like Shake and Tape.

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5. 

   felixyim

   April 22, 2013 at 11:37 am

   at least its not something like ‘DC All-stars’

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6. 

   zen

   April 22, 2013 at 11:46 am

   i dont follow dc (or marvel for that matter anymore), but from what i know of gods among us, it seems to be dc’s version of marvel’s civil war…with a game tacked on to sell.

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   1. 

      eronin

      April 22, 2013 at 11:54 am

      Naw, Marvel’s Civil War is actually in Marvel canon. This is the other way around. It’s an alternate-universe game with a tacked on (albeit quite well-written, apparently) comic series.

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         zen

         April 22, 2013 at 1:14 pm

         so its a one off to sell a game? blech – it could at least be set in the right continuity!

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         1. 

            piman

            April 22, 2013 at 2:18 pm

            Considering all the heroes that had to die for the story as it is written, and the difficulty DC would have had to bring some aspects in line with existing canon, it wouldn’t have been worth it to make it the main canon. Especially since the New 52 reboot wasn’t all that long ago.
            The story here is actually spread across two dimensions/Earths (with a focus on one of them), both of which have at least slightly different histories to the main continuity, even prior to their communication with each other.

            I think the independent stories like this are really interesting. Another interesting one is Red Son (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Son) where Superman’s ship crashed into Soviet Russia instead of USA; which without spoiling anything, changes up a few other things in really interesting ways that make a lot of sense within its self contained story.

            The closest DC has gotten to something like Marvel’s Civil War is Crisis on Infinite Earths and its associated stories like Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis. That was a battle between good and evil though, rather than an ideological conflict between two ostensibly good sides.

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               zen

               April 22, 2013 at 3:43 pm

               i’ve read red son – what if’s are fine, but this doesnt seem like a what iff – its too plausible! the only thing keeping superman from taking over the world is his sense of ‘the american way’ which is democracy, freedom, duty etc. i have also read both crisis on infinite earths and infinite crisis – neither are like civil war as they are about the heroes getting together to fight a common foe, not the heroes split into opposing sides and fighting each other.

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   mrtaco

   April 22, 2013 at 12:11 pm

   I suck at traditional fighting games. Though got a chance to have a go of this at my friend’s place, and really hit my stride with Grundy. Loved what I played of it, definitely gonna have to pick up the Wii U version at some point.

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8. 

   whitepointer

   April 22, 2013 at 12:24 pm

   I’m a big Mortal Kombat fan yet somehow this managed to slip under my radar and I hadn’t even heard of it until a friend asked me if I had it. I haven’t played it, but it seems okay without being outstanding judging by the stuff I’ve seen. I’m undecided if I’ll end up picking it up, but it’s gotta be better than that weird MK vs DC crossover game they did.

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9. 

   Uncle Bob

   April 22, 2013 at 2:11 pm

   I thought the game to be well polished and good overall, but IMHO there was not enough stuff that mattered ie; only about 12 levels and a limited character (villains) selection where the could have been soooooo much more.

   Also to be picky, there were a few “glitches’ that annoyed me such as: You’re playing a level that is at NIGHT TIME and your character is superman. You use superman’s super move and fly into orbit at which point it is suddenly daylight again and the planet is illuminated…

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   1. 

      ashuramgs2sub

      April 22, 2013 at 2:59 pm

      My biggest gripe with the game (although I will state straight up that I quite enjoyed the story mode) is its online functionality (or lack thereof). There are certainly some nice ideas there (such as being able to watch the matches in King of the Hill mode and vote on the victor), but the matchmaking is some of the worst I’ve seen for a fighting game, and the ability to keep matches connected seems really bad. I’ve tried for hours to get a game going, only for matches to be disconnected on the character select screen, during the loading screen, during the pre-match character intros, and 10 seconds into the actual match. And with how long it actually takes to find a game (I still haven’t been able to get a ranked match so far, although that game thinks I’ve won a bunch of other match types due to dropouts), it’s not really tolerable.

      If this was on my connection I’d concede, but I can jump into any other fighting game and most of the time get a solid connection, including indie-ish fare like Skullgirls and the shocking netcode that is King of Fighters XIII. Is anybody else having this same problem?

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      1. 

         scoobysnax

         April 22, 2013 at 3:52 pm

         I had the same problem man. I had one good night of constant matches. Jump into the next night and kept getting disconnected at the character select screen with HEAPS of people. I gave up there and moved on another game lol.

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         ashuramgs2sub

         April 23, 2013 at 1:10 am

         Sorry, that wasn’t meant to be a reply to Uncle Bob.

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         mrtaco

         April 23, 2013 at 1:24 am

         Hey, now there’s a name I remember from a mannerism long ago.

         I ended up playing a dozen or two online matches at my friend’s place when his cousin challenged us to a fight. Not sure if it makes much of a difference only being a few blocks from each other or whether invited games are different to searched ones, but we had no troubles maintaining a connection. But yeah, I don’t know much about playing online, it’s not something I really do at all.

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10. 

    fryiee

    April 22, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Great game. The injustice finals at civil war 5 showed off the potential of this game. I’m maining Green Arrow. Im having no ps3 problems with connection, rooms are the way to go.

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