Injustice: Gods Among Us - Collector's Edition

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Cue Metallica. Enter Gods Among Us.

The premise is simple enough a matched battle game featuring a slew of DC's most enjoyable characters. You get these sorts of games for only a few reasons: the characters, the combat and the story (even though the story might be shorted in some of these sorts of games).

So first, the characters. There is a great range of characters from the Top Three (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) as well as some second-ring Justice Members. Just like in the New 52 comics, Aquaman is still my favourite. His top attack is awesome to say the least. The only negative in my own opinion is that Swamp Thing does not make an appearance (so far....)

Next, the combat. Unfortunately, the combat system for these games are sort of... the exact same. There's nothing new here except for the top and secondary attack visuals. You're pretty much buying this game so you can prove that Batman can beat everyone.

Finally the story at first glance, there's nothing special and in fact I was wondering how Cyborg could even stand in a fight against any of the Top Three. But they have a contrivance to rectify the continuity and place everyone on a even keel. More or less.... The story guides you along a linear plot, but you get to play a goodly number of characters ranging from Batman, Captain Marvel, and even the Joker. The story makes sense and can be quite funny. It's a tonne of fun to play, but not much for replay as I can muster so far, unless you want to beat story mode in every difficulty level, and I have not done so.

Now, that is just the normal game mode. There is also a Battle mode wherein you pick your character and progress against 10 randomly selected characters. Beat them and get a character's unique end story. >>> In addition, there are myriad Battle options to overcome such as timers, buffs/debuffs, and even a few impossible like beating X characters in way too short a span or the opponent will be healed, or maybe both characters heal when they strike each other. It's a mess; a whole lot of a goodly mess.