Injustice: Gods Among Us (PS3, 360, Wii U)

S.T.A.R. Labs Missions Walkthrough Video

The one thing that really bugs me about this game, because otherwise it looks like a lot of fun, is when one character pulls off a devastating, almost world shattering move on the other character, if it's not a K.O, the other character springs back up immediately like they just got slapped or something trivial. Everytime I've watched one of the vs. trailers, it's really bugged me...

So is Darkseid or Lobo gonna be in this thing or what?

Renmauzo said:

The one thing that really bugs me about this game, because otherwise it looks like a lot of fun, is when one character pulls off a devastating, almost world shattering move on the other character, if it's not a K.O, the other character springs back up immediately like they just got slapped or something trivial. Everytime I've watched one of the vs. trailers, it's really bugged me...

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Seconded. The matchups too. Why is Shazam! not outright destroying Green Arrow? And ANYONE matched up 1v1 with Doomsday??? Come on...

whisper2053 said:

Seconded. The matchups too. Why is Shazam! not outright destroying Green Arrow? And ANYONE matched up 1v1 with Doomsday??? Come on...

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Welcome to fighting games.

Has any one tried the demo yet ?

Looks alright.

Just wondered if there is any correlation between those who learn to play the piano vs 30+ second combo strings in fighting games? Memorisation... Timing... etc??

Weren't Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe bad enough?

I'll play this just for the fact that Black Adam is in it. Black Adam is a bad motherfucker.

Leave it to the Ruskies to leak the final roster. Looks like Killer Frost for the villains and Aeries for the heroes. Kinda bummed that Zatana and Lobo didn't make the cut, but here's hoping their added in down the line as DLC.

The game is clunky, stiff, and as unresponsive as you'd expect from a Mortal Kombat team game. It's also dripping with style, has some great interactive background elements and after a few minutes of playing you sort of forget how bad it really is. It's unapologetic in its old school ways, but it's still a lot of fun for a limited amount of time. I'll rent it. Hate it. Keep playing it. Probably still hate it, but ultimately have fun with it. Then return it.

RabbitTroop said:

The game is clunky, stiff, and as unresponsive as you'd expect from a Mortal Kombat team game. It's also dripping with style, has some great interactive background elements and after a few minutes of playing you sort of forget how bad it really is. It's unapologetic in its old school ways, but it's still a lot of fun for a limited amount of time. I'll rent it. Hate it. Keep playing it. Probably still hate it, but ultimately have fun with it. Then return it.

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Played the demo with an open mind. After playing for ten minutes, didn't think too much of it. It's like the last Mortal Kombat, but with stage specific interactivity. I don't see this lasting long. Which is what I pretty much thought in the first place.

If you like new shit, well, it's new. Maybe I'm too Capcommy?

SNK fighters for life though. This ain't it.

New Launch Trailer

Besides the cape physics (or lack thereof), the thing that bothers me visually about this game is the lighting. Especially in regards to the characters' mouths. They all seem like they are carrying a lightbulb in their mouths, which gives the teeth a weird, backlit, almost translucent appearance. A lot of games seem to fall into this 'overlighting the mouth' trap, I guess because they really want us to see the teeth or whatever, but this game has it especially bad, imo.

Still really looking forward to the game, though.

Blue Steel said:

Played the demo with an open mind. After playing for ten minutes, didn't think too much of it. It's like the last Mortal Kombat, but with stage specific interactivity. I don't see this lasting long. Which is what I pretty much thought in the first place.

If you like new shit, well, it's new. Maybe I'm too Capcommy?

SNK fighters for life though. This ain't it.

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MK9 felt really stiff to me at first, but I eventually got used to it. The demo for this had me feeling the same way. It's a very peculiar style of game to get used to.

Who's getting this when it drops tomorrow? I've been staying away from any videos and coverage of the game, other then the demo that was released and also playing it at the New York Comic Con. Ed Boon said that tonight at 7 they'd be announcing the first DLC character, not sure if that will change due to what happened this afternoon, but I hope they'll have the Main Man and Zatanna in the mix.

Guess I gotta double bump. Anybody else pick this up today? I just installed it and tried Raven in training mode. Since they ditched the block button I think I'm going to try playing this with a stick. I gotta figure out all the buttons because they don't pack the game with instructions. Also, the live stream event was canceled due to what happened in Boston so they said their going to wait to do the Superman Vs. Batman and the first DLC character, which people are saying it's going to be Lobo so get ready folks. I should be online for a good part of the night, just hit me up with an invite on Live and we'll go a round or two.

I want the game but I'm torn between buying it now or trying to wait the year until the inevitable Ultimate Edition with all the dlc and whatnot included.

SouthtownKid said:

I want the game but I'm torn between buying it now or trying to wait the year until the inevitable Ultimate Edition with all the dlc and whatnot included.

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The fact that Boon is already announcing DLC pisses me off greatly. My hardrive is packed with enough shit as it is....like, finish your games or fuck off already.

Moon Jump said:

Also, the live stream event was canceled due to what happened in Boston so they said their going to wait to do the Superman Vs. Batman and the first DLC character, which people are saying it's going to be Lobo so get ready folks.

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Really hoping that's true.


I'm probably gonna wait a while to get the game.

I really liked MK9 and after watching some footage last night of this I'm probably going to pick it up for the PS3. Pretty bitchin roster.

Lobo was officially announced as the first DLC character the other day on the livestream. No gameplay was shown but he will use his trademark hook in the game.

I'm struggling to get the hang of this game. I started using the second controller preset because it seems to work a little bit better with a joystick while the first preset that seems to be made with controllers in mind. It's just me but I HATE fighting games that use generic weak, medium and strong attack buttons to punch and kick buttons. Stuff like Power Stone 2 and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 & 3 it just bugs the hell out of me, especially when some of the challenges in S.T.A.R Labs are like, Only Win with Punches, but sometimes in a combo string they'll throw out kicks. I can see how they made it more Street Fighter fan friendly with holding back to block then using a button, but they also have the press two/three buttons for an instant super. It's also hard to try to get a hang of the meter burn button and when to use it. Some moves you think would have an enhanced version don't have one and I notice sometimes I'll do an enhanced move and I didn't even press the button.

Just like MK9 the story mode shines and is how you should do a story mode in a fighting game, Capcom better be taking notes. All the talk they did about Marvel 3 and this game does it ten times better with the characters trading jabs at each other. The clash system is fucking stupid. Why the hell would you want to break a combo to get 15% of your health back when you might get lucky and hit your super to take off more damage? Thankfully when you do make a clash, breakthrough a stage or use a super the timer stops, but I've never fought a match that got close to a timeout yet. I like the environments and being able to smash and destroy just about everything in it, ala Power Stone. The problem is if your playing with a character like Grundy or Superman you can take things and toss them for huge, unblockable damage while smaller characters like Batman and Flash hop over them. So you can try to learn combos or just hurl shit around.

Hopefully they'll patch the game up and give it what it needs. Haven't played it online yet, from what I hear everybody plays it cheesy with Deathstroke doing the same three moves over and over again and also if somebody rage quits you take a loss as well. Fun.

Buy this game it's so great. I love the story mode and the unique traits/meter burn/interactables/wager system. So much fun. And best of all it has the MK9 bone crunching sound effects that make each hit sound extremely painful.

Here's the Main Man. He'll be released on May 7th.



The rumor mill is going around saying the rest of the DLC cast will be Batgirl, Zod and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Don't see why they need BatGirl since there's already enough characters from Batman and unless they get Terence Stamp to play Zod again I don't care and I can see why they want to have a Mortal Kombat crossover character but there's way too many good DC comics characters to pass up on.

Moon Jump said:

Here's the Main Man. He'll be released on May 7th.



The rumor mill is going around saying the rest of the DLC cast will be Batgirl, Zod and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Don't see why they need BatGirl since there's already enough characters from Batman and unless they get Terence Stamp to play Zod again I don't care and I can see why they want to have a Mortal Kombat crossover character but there's way too many good DC comics characters to pass up on.

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Yeah I was a bit disappointed too when I saw Batgirl and Scorpion especially. I'm sure there will be others though. I'm glad I didn't do any type of season pass BS.