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Good game, but no steam cloud saves is outrageous. Lost my save and I haven't had the motivation to go back and finish the story since.

I'm not sure about this one. When we all first heard about it, we questioned the decision to remaster it, the original wasn't very old and still looked very good. Once we saw the preview though, it made a little more sense. The remaster certainly looks different from the original, with bright vivid colours but I don't think it suites this game, and the darker less bright look of the original works better for the atmosphere. In a way, it reminds me of those GTA graphics mods that crank the saturation and put reflections everywhere. It's obviously way better than those, but I'm not sure about how much it actually brings to the table. These are the ramblings of a random dude on the internet though, so you can form your own opinion from the official trailers and pictures on the store of the remaster vs. the original. 10 quid is a pretty fair price if you own the original.

The main thing I don't like is that it is not a Steam family title, meaning that each member of the family has to pay for it if they want to play it. It's a single player game, there is zero reason why it shouldn't be a family shareable game. The only games that make sense to not be family shareable are competitive multiplayer games with anti-cheats etc. not a story game. It doesn't even make sense, considering the original is a Steam family title. I guess it's because of the PSN account requirement, which is also bizarre. I also don't like that you can't buy the original on its own anymore. It's just an unnecessary move.

Funny game but is seriously overpriced for what it is. It's nothing special or ground breaking. It also runs like ♥♥♥♥. Should be more like 5-7 quid. Hence why I don't recommend it.

Fun to play with friends.

Seriously well optimised game, other developers should be making notes on chad devs like ID software and Nixxes.

I don't understand what's going on, I'm just terrified 10/10

Genuinely a lot of fun, defo worth playing with friends if you have any. This game deserves way more attention, 10 / 10

It's certainly a game.

TL;DR: Man, I really wanted to love this game, but I can't look past the myriad issues that I have had with performance and bugs. I also have problems with Denuvo and always online being included, the lack of variety in gameplay, and just the uninspired and predictable story. I expected much better and more from the same studio that pioneered combat from the Batman Arkham games. I don't recommend. 5 or 5.5/10.

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Back when I discovered this game, it seemed like such a cool idea for a Suicide Squad game. It would also grant my dream of being able to play as Harley lol. I was really looking forward to it. They announced a closed alpha play-test which I managed to get into, and man did I find it fun and smooth, with virtually no bugs. Afterwards, I felt confident in the game and pre-ordered the deluxe edition.

Then we found out 4 days before release that they had decided to chuck in Denuvo along with the always online requirement on PC, which pissed me off immediately. DRM is pointless, games will always be pirated, and you only hurt the customers who are paying for the product. It also makes game preservation difficult, since trying to tap into the files is made really difficult for no good reason. People who enjoy and can afford the game will pay for it to support you. And yes, before someone comments, they have said they will add an offline mode, but it isn't for months after release. They haven't even given a date. Until they actually add it to the game, no one has "won the fight against always online games". Do other games do it? Yes. Is it still BS when others do it and should they be called out for it? Absolutely. The most outrageous part about this awful release is that they compensated console owners but not PC users despite experiencing more issues. However, despite this, I decided to keep my order and try it. Man was that a bad decision.

In the playtest, I was playing on an RTX 3060 at high graphics settings, with no DLSS, getting a pretty stable 60fps at 1080p. For the final release? I'm still playing on the same hardware, and I can't even get a stable 30fps at 1080p with DLSS absolutely cranked and low graphics settings. Yes, I had vsync disabled for both. I have constant issues with textures not even loading properly. If I melee an enemy, I can be dropping down to a single digit frame rate. It is unacceptable performance. Again, this is what I have experienced. Some of my friends have had better experiences on PC but this is my review, and I'm telling you what I personally experienced.

Not only this, but I have experienced a number of bugs. For example, at the end of the Batman boss fight, my game crashed without any error or warning, and it turned out that when I got back into the game, it hadn't saved anything I'd done in the fight, not even a checkpoint, so had to do it from the very beginning. I also had issues with enemies occasionally becoming invincible (no they didn't have shields or anything else) and missions failing to start (such as the escort missions), such as the both of which could only be fixed by restarting the game, and issues with audio just glitching and stuttering in fights, and no, it wasn't when the game was dropping all of its frames because I melee'd an enemy.

The beginning of the story is really good, however, it only goes downhill after you defeat the first boss. With only a hand full of enemy types, very few mission designs, and pretty generic and uninspired combat (I was hoping at least that the melee would be more in depth than it is, it's seriously basic), it wasn't fun for me. The boss battles are way too easy as well (apart from one). How is Superman harder than Brainiac (when Brainiac managed to take control of him in the first place), and why does Brainiac choose to use Flash abilities over Superman's? Or why not combine them or something? The last boss battle is super lame, and is not hard. It's a very generic and predictable story. This was a studio that pioneered Arkham combat, I expected them to do the same for the looter shooter scene. The only cool thing is the traversal mechanics, but it isn't enough to hold up a mid story and repeated missions.

In regards to the online aspects, skins are also outrageously expensive. £17 to get all the skins in a pack is expensive, and the fact you have to pay to be able to remove the head piece from the classic outfit that was supposed to be a PC pre-order exclusive is insane and ridiculous. The friends menu is straight up broken, claiming that friends who I know have the game don't exist, and being unable to join anyone's game. At best, they show up, and it says they are in the main menu, even when they are not.

Just before the conclusion, I wanted to add a bit about the community, because man is it something. On one side, there are people who don't like the game because it isn't a Batman game, and on the other, are people who are claiming it will be game of the year. Neither side is right, don't let the haters or boot kissers get to you, make your own decision. You can always buy the game, and refund it if you're within the first 2 hours of play time and are still within 2 weeks of buying it on Steam (even then, they're very generous). Both sides are toxic, and don't want to listen or hear the other sides perspective, and it's especially noticeable in the official Discord server. It's fine to like the game, and it's fine to not like it, but to harass others over it is insane and childish.

In its current state with Denuvo, always online, performance issues, predictable story and generic gameplay, no I can't recommend it. I'd give it a 5, maybe 5.5 out of 10. I don't see Rocksteady fixing these performance issues on PC since they couldn't be asked to fix the broken graphics options that cause crashes in Arkham Knight on PC, and issues like the predictable story aren't fixable with any number of patches. Even if we get more variety with the online aspects and other more interesting characters, additions to the story and new mission types, it doesn't fix the base story, which is boring and tedious.

Edit: Fixed some grammar, formatting issues and made the TL;DR a bit easier to read.

Edit 2: I have since sent a refund request (that has been very kindly accepted by Steam). There have been zero patches as of writing this review and the game is still as broken as when it released. I was holding out, hoping that there would be at least a bug fix update, even if it was small by now. People still aren't getting their deluxe items and I can still barely run this game. The lack of attention and care towards PC players disgusts me to be honest.

I also wanted to add that cheaters are a big problem in this game. The anti-cheat can literally be disabled by editing one config file, and there are either no or barely any server-side checks. This is exactly what I was concerned about pre-launch, that there would be a problem with cheaters that affect all players including console players due to cross-play. They have also done nothing to address this so far, not even issued a statement about it.

There is also a lack of players in this game, the game's peak player count is less than half of Arkham Knight's and absolutely minuscule. This game's future is not looking bright, and for a company that has $45b worth of debt, I absolutely see them charging for the content that they initially promised was free, or ending the game's lifespan short. Sure, there are console players, and it is doing better on there, but it isn't doing well by any stretch of the imagination, and it certainly is not going to pay off the hundreds of millions of dollars WBD would have spent on this game, never mind contribute to paying off their debt.

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Great game, bad port. Definitely worth getting some mods to fix the short comings of the port.