There is one thing the roster seemingly lacks which I was looking forward to: magic users.

I suspect Brainiac meant that Amazo was excluded and Atrocitus took away Red Tornado's chances; the latter characters were part of my most requested list.

Roster seems a bit (including the apparent leak) "Well heres who you wanted from the last game." I remember lots of people wanted Atrocitus, Grodd, Poison Ivy and Black Canary. PLUS POWER FUCKING GIRL.

But I bet people want more.

Designs seem busy. Much like the first Injustice's designs everyone's costume is busy and now they are going to be busier. I'm not sure about them. Some of them look cool. But I'm a boring bastard that liked all the New 52 skins and stuff like Anitmatter Sinestro from the Mobile game.

No idea for the rest. I'm kinda hoping Batman is slightly villainous and this isn't another multiple earths crisis thing again.

I think this game is shaping up to surpass the first game by a long shot. One of my complaints I had with the first one was the sound effects were dull. For instance hitting someone sounded like you're hitting a punching bag, whereas here it sounds much meatier.

Unfortunately I hate the new announcer just as much as I hated the previous one. I don't understand what NRS is thinking with this choice of having monotone announcers.

And when it comes to the roster I'm of two minds. On one hand I'm happy that they are including fan requested characters. However, this will mean they're gonna push aside my favorites from the last game like Zatanna and Batgirl. Makes me wish they weren't DLC in the first game so that they would be in Injustice 2, which without a doubt will be the better game.

So far everything looks good/better than the first. Although I was hyped for Injustice and love DC and comics I waited until the GOTY edition before I bought it, Batgirl was the character I was most excited about so I thought I'd save myself some money.

Seems that's not happening this time as they're offering all the DLC characters at launch with the deluxe edition. I like this. Doesn't make me feel like I'm missing out on a year of good times.

The gear system has me a bit worried, both from a gameplay perspective and a aesthetic one. A lot of the gear looks strange to me or weirdly colored or...I don't know. Outside of like Atrocitus and Harley Quinn some of the stuff looks like it doesn't belong. I also don't like how the gear enhances you during gameplay. I'm sure there will be a mode where you can turn gear effects off but RPG elements like that bother me in fighting games. It's why I couldn't get behind Battle Fantasia when it came out.

Roster looks good so far. As someone pointed out right now it seems like a mixture of people who you expect to return plus whoever DC/WB wants to promote hence Supergirl and Deadshot. Everyone else on the roster seems to be major characters missing from the first outing. This is fine but I hope we get some good surprises like with the last game. I also hope they don't follow MK trend of not having a character be DLC if they already were in the last game because if so I think I'm missing some of my favorites. Although I think Martian Manhunter is going to be the Kenshi of this game. His new connection with Supergirl via the TV show is too good to pass up imo.

I just got my multiplayer beta code so everybody check their mail and I'll probably update this with some gameplay thoughts and opinions.

The game is a blast.

Not only do you get gear but tour character also levels up which increases their stats. I fought a Superman who out geared and leveled me and it was a little ridiculous.

Atrocitus is king right now. Definitely top tier or very close to it. He has so many tools man; great bnb combos, largely safe strings, great specials, above average reach, even his ult isn't bad. He has a great trait as well. A lot of mix up potential. I'm seeing more of him online than anyone right now.

Actually I liked all the characters I played outside of Batman who was still kind of awkward to use for me.

Blue Beetle is a lot of fun too, I'm having the most success with him right now.

I'm not a competitive gamer...I play for fun, not to be the best fatass on the couch in the world. That said, I'm thus far not enjoying the fact that it seems the majority of the focus on gearing up and playing the game overall is going to be the competitive online. I like couch competition, online with friends, and expansive single player content. I'm feeling that there will be a lack of this in favor of online competitive.

Characters thus far...not bad. So glad they fixed the murderous baby face meets Chucky disgustingness that was the female faces in early development. Brought back nightmares of tranny Cassie from 2014 previews all over again.

Tits Girl. Shocked it took them til the second game to put her in. The most popular pair of tits in comics, and apparently there's a character to go with them.

Liking what seems to be the story so far...seems like something significant has happened in the the world of Injustice that is causing new alliances and rivalries.

Haven't seen much of it - did they fix the "I'm down...no wait, i'm getting back up...nah i'm too tired im gonna sit down instead" nonsense that happens when you defeat an opponent? I absolutely hated that in Injustice.

No dramatic endings, still. Do these guys even read comics? How many times do fights between characters end with a kick to the shin? They always end with an explosive "BRAKADOOM". At least a dramatic close-up/slow-mo/extra punishing hit as the final hit of the match. This is a comic book game and these are the creators of MK...come on already. Add some flair to the end of the match.

I'm still so-so about it. Like most other fighting games, Injustice only held my interest for about 1.5 to 2 weeks, whereas I still play MKX every week, and was playing MK9 constantly until MKX launched. Needs more to impress me at this point.

Hype went belly up thanks to those damn leakers.

Thus I wait forevermore until Black Lightning Jefferson Pierce makes a playable appearance.

Needs more MMH!