![]() ![]() Get through these and you get epic gear for characters and other rewards. Sometimes you’ll get an Assist, sometimes gravity will be low, sometimes the floor will occasionally go on fire, and so on. Essentially it’s an endless series of offline single-player challenges against AI opponents in themed matches. In addition to the Story Mode, if you don’t want to face Online there’s also Multiverse, which is also wonderful. Using the Meter is clever and easy to do, but deciding when to use this Meter is key to success. All four bars filled and you can either do a Clash to gain back health (which can be defended against by spending Meter bars) or burned all at once to do a devastating Super Move. A single bar can be used with Right Trigger (on a gamepad) to cause extra damage with certain special moves, or dodge. As you fight a Meter builds up to four bars. The inclusion of an Ability Meter helps with both Newbie Inclusion and Pro Domination, and as such is a work of genius. Moves are generally straightforward to pull off, the tutorial tells you everything you need to know, and even if you barely touch beat-em-ups just pick a character, learn a few of their special moves, and you’ll be able to get through most fights – and enjoy them. Their fighting game engine is slick, brutal, and massively fun to play, but most importantly they realize that non-fighting game fans of DC Comics will want to play Injustice 2 so they’ve kept things as simple as you want. Netherrealm have taken the Mortal Kombat style and satisfying mechanics and improved them even further. The fighting itself is, in a word, wonderful. Mostly thanks to Green Arrow or Harley Quinn. There are moments where rather convoluted events happen in order to provoke a fight, but then you remember you’re playing a fighting game and they kind of have to do that – believe me, it’s easy to forget. The story is sizeable, well-written, and unlike the first game has plenty of opportunity to play more than one character. ![]() The acting is great too, mixing veterans from the Justice League animated series with perfectly cast actors such as Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger, playing Scarecrow), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator and Star Trek, playing Brainiac), and Alan Tudyk (Firefly, as Green Arrow, who he actually played on Young Justice). The graphics have been upped for starters, and it’s the animation that’s truly extraordinary – the facial capture is perfect, lifelike and fully expressive. This one also has the nice touch of environmental attacks too.Injustice: Gods Among Us was praised for its wonderful and extremely DC fanboy-friendly story mode, and Injustice 2 is even better in this regard. So a lot going on in this one as compared to Marvel vs Capcom which would have benefited with multiple endings and a few other modes to choose from. So, this one was fun and I still must play through the arcade mode as each character as it offers a different ending for each one. The fighting in that one is better to me, but not by much so this one gets the overall edge on that one despite controls that at time feel a bit stiff. This one though also offers several other play modes that will make me play through each scenario, use each character and complete several missions too! So much to do, which causes me to be baffled by the lack of stuff to do in Marvel vs Capcom. The story mode is good and kept me playing till I won it to see how it ended. This makes Superman go pretty much insane as he creates a world where he polices the world and keeps everyone in line, or else! Meanwhile, in another reality, the Justice League are fighting Lex Luthor and multiple villains when Green Lantern, Joker, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow and Aquaman are pulled in this very oppressive reality by the Batman there in hopes of stopping Superman's reign of terror. The story has an alternate reality where the Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois and in turn her heart stoppage causes a bomb to explode killing millions in Metropolis. The fighting is a bit easier and less stiff than the fighting in this one, but the arcade mode and S.T.A.R lab mission modes in this one are much better giving this one better replay value. After playing them both and doing missions and arcade mode, I have to give the edge to this one. I have yet to play this one's sequel, but I have one the story mode on both this and Marvel vs Capcom. I have not played a fighting game in a long time (in fact, I think the last one I played is DC vs Mortal Kombat) however, I have been on such a comic kick lately that I got this one, its sequel and Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite. ![]()
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