Suicide Squad
The next idea is one that is familiar to most people. Its movie won an Oscar and yet its reviews from audiences and critics weren’t good. However, Suicide Squad as a title is rife with possibilities and that is why I think adapting it for a video game is a good idea.
Suicide Squad is the unofficial name for Task Force X. It’s a Government-sanctioned team of villains working under ARGUS Director, Amanda Waller.
Sure, it sounds a bad idea to make a team of villains fight for the greater good. However, Amanda has a trick up her sleeve. She implants a bomb in the neck of her prisoners so as soon as they step out of line, their head disappears from their body.
The idea she holds their lives in her hands is what makes the Suicide Squad interesting and separates it from other teams. There’s also a lot of friction between the villains as some of them have crossed paths and double-crossed one another in the past.
The Suicide Squad game will be a mix between an online experience where anybody can jump in, a la Dead Island and a rotating roster a player can choose from like in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.
The select menu has a list of DC villains with their own abilities but certain characters can’t change. As an example, say the story needs Captain Boomerang for a specific cut scene then you will need to keep him on your team but you can choose other characters to be with him.
Another reason for locking certain characters in a level is that because they will die. For example, you may need Slipknot on your team because he dies at the end of the level and it doesn’t make sense if he’s not there.
Meanwhile, other characters might die in the story due to the choices made by the player throughout. This is similar to how Telltale games work.
Much like some of the other games, players can experience the chance to unlock skins from across the source material and other adaptations. It keeps it fresh and lets the players control the favorite version of their character.
That means using skins from the Suicide Squad movie, both the one already out and the upcoming James Gunn version.
Sadly, a version of this game nearly came to fruition. In 2010, Geoff Johns said a Suicide Squad video game was in the works and it was going to be “hardcore violent.”
This won’t be a surprise to those who played Batman: Arkham Origins. A credit scene features Amanda Waller recruiting Deathstroke for Task Force X. It seems as if the game is no longer happening and it’s a shame.
Still, if it was an idea at one point there is always a chance it’ll be released one day.
