The flurry of sight and sound continues as Injustice: Gods Among Us rolls along the promotion cycle toward an April 16 release! The Injustice Facebook has added to a growing gallery of concept art and previews, showcasing this weeks Battle Arena contestants: Flash, Captain Marvel, Joker & Lex Luthor!
It started with a simple, cryptic promise from Creative Director Ed Boon (@noobde), escalated with a live countdown, and concluded with our first look at the Gotham City bruiser - Killer Croc!
Gods will truly be among us when Captain Marvel joins the confirmed list of characters for the upcoming DC Entertainment fighting game: Injustice!
Today we learned the next Injustice: Gods Among Us gameplay trailer would be delayed, Bane looks like a badass in concept art, and Dr. Fate could be somewhere in our future...
Since the announcement of their newest fighting game project, NetherRealm Studios have been consistent with two promises: this isn't Mortal Kombat with DC characters, and there's going to be a whole lot of content!
Injustice: Gods Among Us is taking full advantage of the wealth of material DC Entertainment have to offer, tapping in to everything from the comics themselves, to other video games!
Walmart have joined the bonus content arms race, offering exclusive DLC costume packs inspired by the 2011 video game - Batman: Arkham City!
Batman, Joker and Catwoman [pictured right] get the Arkham City treatment [no pictures available]. The pre-order purchase bonus is seemingly only available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Update: An image of the Arkham City DLC designs has emerged [via Giantbomb]. Thanks to C-Sword for the tip.
Pre-orders from Gamestop will receive exclusive Red Son game content, featuring alternate costumes for Superman, Wonder Woman and Solomon Grundy [below]. The pack also includes twenty challenge missions set within the Red Son universe.
Comic books are an inherently graphic medium, so it's probably to be expected that we get a few pictures on the way to the April release of Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Those handsome devils at NetherRealm Studios have recently delivered promotional images via Facebook and Twitter accounts. They showcase just a few of the confirmed playable heroes and villains from the DC Comics fighter!
When you consider the instant success Injustice: Gods Among Us has had through digital-first release [full story], you have to think this is a comic already fulfilling its primary objective(s).
Print copies of #1 (released January 30) contain the first three chapters of the digital counterpart. Mortal Kombat Online is reviewing based on both, but if you asked for preference, the paper copy takes it. The printed page -- which is cut roughly in half for digital release -- is not only more forgiving to the empty space of panels and the quality of linework, but also the overall pacing of the read.
The natural format of a modern comic lends itself to page-to-page scene breaks, but it could be speculated writer Tom Taylor is more aware of his obligations to digital chapters than is normal. Important story beats segment well, but this doesn't entirely playout in the artwork, which feels hyper-extended in the digital version.
Jheremy Raapack in particular seems much more at home in a traditional 7x11 comic page, with layouts a little less obviously accounting for a page split. When Mike S. Miller and Axel Gimenez take over, the equator becomes more obvious. These panels feel better filled in digital chunks, but compound the unexpected interruption of mid-story style changes. There's a lot to like about Raapack's stylized chunkiness; Miller is crisp and clean.
External forces weighing on the series make it an unusual comic to review, but also speaks to the varied audiences it will inevitably reach. If you aren't looking for the metatext, you won't be too distracted. There are a lot of ways to enjoy this comic, and if anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, plenty of people already are! This is the tie-in's tie-in -- perfect for introducing an interested new audience to the DC superhero medium.
Injustice: Gods Among Us promises big things from it's upcoming release in April. Set in a distopian version of the DC Universe, we've known since inception that a New Regime was coming, and that it was probably led by Superman.
Thanks to the latest trailer from DC Entertainment and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, we now have a more vivid impression of exactly why the worlds greatest heroes have become its greatest threat!
The "Death of Metropolis" story mode trailer [above] is packed with details; elaborating on the heart wrenching backstory being told simultaneously by DC Comics, in the official Injustice: Gods Among Us comic book.
Superman and his allies are set to take control when The Joker succeeds in manipulating The Man of Steel into breaking his one golden rule. The elaborate plot sees Lois Lane suffer a grim demise, her fate directly tied to that of the destroyed city of tomorrow - Metropolis!
Batman and his team of rebels will be forced to clash with the greatest heroes turned tyrant! Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Arrow and Hawkgirl appear to be among the Regime figures he'll face; joined by a motley crew of bedfellows: Green Arrow, Cyborg, Lex Luthor and Harley Quinn.
Computer and Video Games (CVG) have unleashed an exclusive new Injustice: Gods Among Us trailer featuring an all-star, all-action preview of the superhero fighter coming April!
Recent events have left our world in chaos.
Millions died in one terrible moment... Friends, family, husbands... wives.
Some survivors have stepped forward to pick up the pieces. Others have succumbed to corruption and through it all, the perpetrators of that heinous crime are laughing. Now, nowhere is safe and no one is free. The criminals of this world, monsters that would gladly end your life in a heartbeat, have shown us that they do not fear punishment. They've shown us that incarceration will not deter them. They've shown us that no matter how long we fight they will never contribute anything to society beyond fear and agony.
They attack us, manipulate us, murder us. Again and again and without remorse.
The time has come to put an end to their reign of terror... permanently.
Some who oppose me you've known as heroes.
They wish to hold the moral high ground at the expense of peace. I do not.
They think the near destruction of our world is just another crisis for them to fix, an isolated incident. I do not.
They believe that a man who has brought us to the edge of ruin simply needs rehabilitation.
I do not.
Instead I believe that criminals should face consequences tantamount to their transgressions. I believe in fighting to guarantee that the millions of innocents who have already perished did not die in vain. If you believe as I do, then I ask that you join me in this fight.
Follow me into a new world.
A world where order thrives and criminals suffer.
Where the virtuous rule and peace is absolute.
Building this future will not be easy.
We'll all have to make sacrifices, but our sacrifice will give us courage. Our courage will unite us, and together... we will finally and definitively save the world.
