Let's Talk Injustice

Listening to: Axelay
Feeling: bittersweet

Before I get too far into this let me assure you that Injustice: Gods Among Us is a great feeling game experience. It is truely a fighting game all it's own. With interactive stages and plenty of new game mechanics to make sure even the characters that seem like they would play the same are actually quite different. Each character had their own character power that compliments them from the comics. Raven's taps into her Demon half. She turns red and gets the extra two eyes just like in the comics and for about 5 seconds gains additional powers more akin to her father's influence. So let me begin by saying No... it doesn't bother me that Tara Strong doesn't do the voice for Raven. She does the voice for Harley Quinn and to be honest Tara Strong's voice does not fit the character of Raven from the comics. This version of Raven is more close to that than the TT animated show's version. However Cyborg is actually a lot better voiced by his TT animated show voice actor. Not to mention he says "Boo-yah!" and that just made my damn day the first time I heard it. Raven is not supposed to be her TT animated version. She's Evil in this game. One of her longer segments of air time is of her torturing Deathstroke. Would you want Tara Strong doing the voice of Raven if that Raven did everything the character from the show despized? I'm actually glad they went a different way.

About the story. A damn good one. I wish it was longer. I might consider getting into the actual comic attached to the game. No spoilers. Oddly enough... this game and Bioshock: Infinite had very similar story lines. I'm sure that was just a coincidence.

How the game feels is where I get to loving and hating the game. Raven is fun. She plays a lot like Mortal Kombat's Ermac. Kind of a meter abuser. As in all of her best combos are off of Meteor Blast moves which is this game's version of EX moves. Other characters I used were of course the big brawlers. Solomon Grundy is the resident grappler, Zangeif type. Bane plays more like Hugo from Street Fighter 3. Dooms Day is a lot like Shao Khan. Death Stroke is your ranged projectile, spacing, character. So far that's about all I've put hours into... and my god my hands are in bad shape. Hitting those shoulder buttons so much are murder on your pointer fingers.

You know what I hate? Quick Time events on the PS3. Know what this game is chalk full of? Quick Time events. This is so far the only part of the game that makes me cringe every time I come across one. The S.T.A.R.S. missions will force you to do these and I have loads of trouble telling the difference between the small square and circle buttons. So of course I fail them miserably. It took me about twenty minutes beating one of the missions because I just plain couldn't tell the difference.

Have yet to try the online. I'm afraid it's going to suck like the rest. I rarely play Tekken Tag Tournament 2 because it has about a 50/50 chance of being downright unplayable. Anyone who knows me knows how much pain that gives me. They added P-Jack, My favorite character of Tekken, into the game and I can't enjoy it. I pray Injustice does not follow the track of Mortal Kombat 9. Here's to hoping that I will not lose faith in the genre. I don't know how many more critical hits I could take.

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