I beat the story mode in Injustice 2 over the weekend. For those who don't know this is a fighting game franchise made by the Mortal Kombat developers based on characters from DC Comics. I'm not a big fighting game guy in general but I like this series because they take the time to make an actual campaign.
The story in both games is good if you are into the DC Characters. With the exception of Batman I've always leaned more towards Marvel but I do watch the DC shows on CW and I have seen all the recent DC movies. There are plenty of characters in this game that I have never heard of but if you watch the CW shows you will find most of those characters represented in this game (Flash, Reverse Flash, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Black Canary, Grodd, Firestorm, Captain Cold). They obviously have all the major characters from the movies too.
The way the story in the first game starts out Joker has somehow drugged Superman and tricked him into murdering his pregnant wife, Lois Lane. While on Jokers drugs he also detonates a nuclear weapon that destroys his hometown of Metropolis and kills most of its citizens in the process. When the drugs wear off and he realizes what he has done Superman murders Joker in revenge and decides that the old system isn't working. Instead of putting super villains in jail he decides to start killing all of them. He basically takes over the governing of the entire world and recruits other heroes to his cause. If they decline he imprisons them. Batman obviously has a problem with all of this so he recruits heroes to take on Superman and his team. This is obviously a pretty dark story but it sets up a compelling reason for these heroes who are normally on the same side to be fighting each other in both of these games.
Even as someone who doesn't normally care about fighting games and prefers Marvel to DC I really like these games. This is easily my favorite fighting game franchise. With the previous game I played through the story and basically never touched it again. This time I have already gone back a few times to play the multiiverse. For fans of Mortal Kombat these are the living towers from that franchise where you pick a charcter and have to beat 4 or 5 AI characters. They typically modify the rules of normal fights and do something like make certain kinds of attacks stronger or drop random health orbs on the ground.
The point is that there is quite a bit of content here even if you don't typically have someone to play against in local multiplayer or are not thrilled about getting destroyed in online multiplayer. I'm not sure how long I will keep coming back to this game but I know I'm not done with it yet. I would also recommend keeping an eye out for deals on the first game if you haven't played it yet. The Ultimate Edition with all the DLC characters included goes on sale for $4.99 pretty often.
The story in both games is good if you are into the DC Characters. With the exception of Batman I've always leaned more towards Marvel but I do watch the DC shows on CW and I have seen all the recent DC movies. There are plenty of characters in this game that I have never heard of but if you watch the CW shows you will find most of those characters represented in this game (Flash, Reverse Flash, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Black Canary, Grodd, Firestorm, Captain Cold). They obviously have all the major characters from the movies too.
The way the story in the first game starts out Joker has somehow drugged Superman and tricked him into murdering his pregnant wife, Lois Lane. While on Jokers drugs he also detonates a nuclear weapon that destroys his hometown of Metropolis and kills most of its citizens in the process. When the drugs wear off and he realizes what he has done Superman murders Joker in revenge and decides that the old system isn't working. Instead of putting super villains in jail he decides to start killing all of them. He basically takes over the governing of the entire world and recruits other heroes to his cause. If they decline he imprisons them. Batman obviously has a problem with all of this so he recruits heroes to take on Superman and his team. This is obviously a pretty dark story but it sets up a compelling reason for these heroes who are normally on the same side to be fighting each other in both of these games.
Even as someone who doesn't normally care about fighting games and prefers Marvel to DC I really like these games. This is easily my favorite fighting game franchise. With the previous game I played through the story and basically never touched it again. This time I have already gone back a few times to play the multiiverse. For fans of Mortal Kombat these are the living towers from that franchise where you pick a charcter and have to beat 4 or 5 AI characters. They typically modify the rules of normal fights and do something like make certain kinds of attacks stronger or drop random health orbs on the ground.
The point is that there is quite a bit of content here even if you don't typically have someone to play against in local multiplayer or are not thrilled about getting destroyed in online multiplayer. I'm not sure how long I will keep coming back to this game but I know I'm not done with it yet. I would also recommend keeping an eye out for deals on the first game if you haven't played it yet. The Ultimate Edition with all the DLC characters included goes on sale for $4.99 pretty often.
