The co-op shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was not under a good star beforehand. A postponement due to negative feedback in the testing phase was followed by a sparse release of advance keys to the gaming press. This usually indicates that the publisher, Warner Bros. Games, is not expecting good reviews from the press.
Press: Flop, Player: Top?
As expected, the press reviews are rather negative: Metacritic determined an average rating of 61 out of 100 points for the PC and PS5 versions Opencritic The looter shooter from Rocksteady Studios also received a moderate 63 out of 100 points. This means that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League shares a similar overall rating as the flopped Anthem from Bioware, which, like Rocksteady Studios, was known for excellent single-player games, and also a looter shooter in the style of Destiny or The Division as a service game developed.
But the Steam community There is currently a completely different feedback: At the time of writing this article there are only a little more than 1,3000 reviews on Valve’s gaming platform and the maximum number is a little more than 12,000 active Steam players, but on average, buyers of Suicide Squad on Steam rate it “very positively”. Although many players on Steam find the mission design to be repetitive, similar to the press, they usually draw a positive conclusion.
Is there a “single player bias” in the gaming press?
In the User reviews For example, you can read that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is quite fun, especially in co-op, due to the fast looter shooter gameplay. However, many gamers find the retail price of just under 70 euros for the standard edition to be too high. Even if the situation on Steam needs to be monitored further, the legitimate question arises as to whether the gaming press should have several editors play and evaluate the respective title together when testing co-op games.
Source: Steam, Metacritic, Opencritic, SteamDB