Look, we're excited for Injustice 2, but there's an elephant that needs addressing – the character models are kinda hideous, aren't they? NetherRealm's always struggled rendering decent-looking human characters, but it requires a special kind of talent to take a heroine as iconic as Catwoman and make her look like the backend of a rhinoceros' butt.
Poison Ivy, fortunately, fares a little better, as does Cheetah – both of which feature in this special Valentine's Day trailer. The game looks great fun to play, and there's no questioning the production values are top-notch, but surely a celebration of classic comic book characters should have… Like, much better art than this. It's not just us, right?
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I can't wait. I want to play the first one again but sadly I don't have any room on my PS4 at this moment.
I simply do not understand how NeterRealm could f**k up both Wonder Woman and Cat Woman. Neither look good. Are we serious? Maybe I'm wrong but it just screams of pandering to a certain crowd just like they did with the horrible female designs in Mortal Kombat X.
I think they look fine. Maybe they could be a little better, but I don't think it's hideous. "Hideous" was how Supergirl and Wonder Woman looked before the graphics got tweaked, and they're fine now.
Maybe my standards are just lower. I will agree that Gods Among Us wasn't great graphics wise, however.
Apperantly there was a leak a few months ago on reddit, up until now the leak is spot on, it predicted cheetah, poison ivy, catwoman, black canary, swamp thing, bane, power girl, zoom, damian wayne and other before they were officially announced. I couldn' t find the leak again but I remember it was from someone who worked on the IJ2 mobile update for the mobile game. He told about 22 of the 40 characters. Six yet to be revealed characters should be mr freeze, black addam, scarecrow, firestorm and brainiac (brainiac isn't officially revealed to be playable)
There should be 28 main game characters, 3 premier dlc skin characters and 9 dlc characters.
Why do we need Cheetah? Huntress or the return of Zatanna or Killer Frost would be better. Also Black Canary with no Green Arrow (Yet) seems strange.
Also why it is so hard to copy paste the models from current (or oldest) comics? Finally why is this game so expensive? 110 Euros (!) for the whole game on psn... Not that retail is much cheaper if you need a Season Pass with characters obviously cut from the retail game.
I am a DC fan but I am not really hyped for this game.
@belmont
NetherRealm is definitely doing a fine job killing my anticipation as well. I was already annoyed by some of the obvious pandering in Mortal Kombat X (though it is a pretty decent game), this is really ticking me off though. Then you add the usual DLC practices of this company and it's just a major turn off. Very tempted to just hold off and wait for Tekken 7. Disappointing because last-gen the fighting franchises I enjoy saw some awesome entries. This gen? Aint got sh*t. MK X was decent, but not nearly as good as the last one, Capcom screwed up SF V all to hell (and also did some pandering), DoA 5 Last Round is fun but it's a last-gen game. I'm really hoping Namco comes through for me. Just want good, old Tekken the way it's always been.
@Gamer83 Tekken 7 has a weird roster missing a few staples so far, different combo mechanics with tailspin attacks instead of bounds, simpler throw breaks, and super moves in the form of rage arts and drives. If you can deal with those, you're fine.
Also: Does Ivy remind anyone of a particular actress? Her face looks familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.
@DerMeister
I'll wait for reviews on Tekken 7 as well. Just hasn't been the best gen for fighting games, imo. I get hyped by the initial reveals then as time goes on, I realize it's all just garbage. Sad that I'm over at Nintendo Life port begging for Ultra SF II, but that's the state of the genre right now (at least as far as fighting games, I like, I know for others things aren't this bad).
Also, Ivy has a little bit of a Scarlett Johansson look.
@Gamer83 Go find some T7 gameplay if you're not sure. Aside from the changes I mentioned, the core stuff doesn't look too different from Tag 2.
Have you tried Guilty Gear or Blazblue this gen? I don't know if anime like fighters are your thing, but you didn't mention them before. Might be time to try something else.
EDIT- Forgot to mention King of Fighters. SNK fighters in general are pretty good.
Where the hell is Harley?
@Gamer83 Agreed. I was not a fan at all of the character designs (faces and costumes) in the first one. Its not just the faces, Wonder Woman's body was so disproportionate in GAU. Although, some of the costume designs are better in the sequel the faces are still not very good.
@DerMeister
Not a fan of Blazblue or Guilty Gear. Do like KoF but haven't got around to getting the new one. Heard mixed things. Truth is, I still play a lot of DoA, so I can get by with one fighter this gen, but it'd be nice to have Tekken back to form. I miss that series, Soul Calibur and especially Virtua Fighter.
Catwoman looks middle age tbh, why couldn't they copy her design for the Arkham games.
@Gamer83 Yeah, I can understand that. Like I said, look up some Tekken gameplay if you want to. Most of it's pro player footage from arcades, but it's still Tekken. Let me know what you think if you do. I'll admit I've been dour about it early on, but that's mostly because of the roster instead of gameplay. I can deal with the changes if it still plays like Tekken.
I miss Soul Calibur as well, but I never actually played Virtua Fighter.
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