![]() Equipping gear will improve base stats for your characters, but certain pieces of gear can also provide other bonuses, like additional XP gains, more damage for throws, and so on. Injustice 2 has a pretty well-realized loot and gear system, each character has five gear slots, and loot earned has various degrees of rarity, ranging from basic to Epic. Yes, that’s right, a fighting game with loot. This mode is one of the primary ways you’ll level up your characters, and also provides ample rewards in the form of Mother Boxes, which in turn will grant you loot to equip. The Multiverse is another single-player mode wherein you’ll pick a character to face off against a series of foes, sometimes with additional modifiers. These modes won’t necessarily turn you into a pro online, but it’ll be enough for you to get your feet wet and seek out additional info via YouTube and other places. You can also go into character specific practice sessions that’ll give you a lot of the same information centered on the character you choose. In addition to the story mode, the single player side of the game makes use of plenty of practice options, with a solid opening tutorial for new players that’ll run you through not only basic moves and special attacks, but other mechanics like meter burn for evasions, basic combo strings, and more. I also appreciated the use of a larger threat to bring the opposing sides of Batman and Superman together, and I think the payoff at the end is pretty interesting for both sides. The basics are pretty easy to pick-up, and explained well enough in the opening chapters, that I doubt anyone will be lost here. I think your appreciation of the story is certainly elevated if you’re familiar with the comic content, but I don’t think your overall enjoyment will depend on that information. It’s a true sequel to not only the first Injustice game, but also the comic series, which spanned a number of seasons in-between. It also helps that the story is largely entertaining. It can feel a bit disjointed, you’re only given a few matches to get familiar with one character before moving on to the next, but I also find that it’s a good way to sample a large portion of the roster before deciding who you’d like to focus on. It builds upon the groundwork of Mortal Kombat 9 and X, weaving the story sequences between the fights in a near seamless fashion. Because of this, I think it’s an excellent title to pick up and play for just about anyone, regardless of your experience level.įirst off, the story mode here puts pretty much every fighting game not developed by NetherRealm to shame. Injustice 2 provides a number of quality reasons to play, even if you don’t consider yourself to be competitive, or even competent, when it comes to the fighting game genre. Both the single player and multiplayer sides of the DC Comics focused title manage to stand out as exceptional, especially when directly compared against some of its recent competitors. NetherRealm Studios’ continued success in the fighting game space doesn’t miss a beat with the release of Injustice 2 on PS4 and Xbox One.
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