A Quick Impression of Injustice: Gods Among Us

The creators of the Mortal Kombat series are coming out with their brand new game Injustice: Gods Among Us. Releasing in April, 16th Netherrealm has a released a demo in the mean time. The demo has three playable characters; Batman, Lex Luthor, and Wonder Woman. It's got about 20 more fighters in the finale game including Robin, Nightwing, The Green Lantern, The Joker, Superman, and Harley Quinn. Depending on what character you play as you play as, they each have their own advantage and disadvantage. Lex Luthor is strong, but moments are slow, and Batman is quick, but his attacks are weak. Wonder Woman seems to have the mixture of the two. I'm a more of a quick attacker player, so Batman was the choice for me. If you were expecting the fighters to have the same moves as the Mortal Kombat characters have, then you'll be half right. The buttons for both games are different, but they both share the same button commands, Batman's grappler move is the same as Scorpion's. If Batman is Scorpion, then Wonder Woman is Mileena and Lex Luthor is Jax. If you had some problems with both Mileena and Jax, then you'll have the same problem here. But if you practice like you might have done with Mileena and Jax, Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor can be powerful fighters. With enough practice, you can make their weakness into their strength. This game has the philosophy of Easy to play, Hard to master. I haven't learned every move of Batman, so I've been button mashing. I know that if I sit down with it like I did with Mortal Kombat, Batman will be just as powerful.

There was one only one mode to play in the demo, and that was Battle. You fight Batman, Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor, and Doomsday. Doomsday seems to be taking the Shao Kahn's school of bosses, but unlike Kahn himself where Kahn has the tendency to use the same moves over and over again, Doomsday mixes them up. He's a legitimate challenge. He isn't tough, but tough enough to keep you in your toes. Much like Mortal Kombat, there is a type of X-Ray move, instead of showing the bones break, each fighter has a super move. Batman's super move is that he shocks you, hit your chin with his knee, throws an exploding Batarang, and makes his Batmobile run you over. It gets ridiculous sometimes, but it's fantastic in doing so. There is also wages that happen randomly in the battle where you press a button to try to complete a clash. There was something like it in Mortal Kombat vs DC. If one person wins the wager a small bonus will be given to them. The two I've seen was a small health benefit or more damage of the resulting clash. If there was a tie, nothing happens, and the fight continues on. The one thing that did surprise me was the damage. In one fight parts of Wonder Woman's skin was gone. It's not Mortal Kombat level of skin damage, but it's there and not as bloody.

Injustice: Gods Among Us releases this month for the PS3, WiiU, and 360, and if this demo shows a tiny taste of what is to come, then this will be one of the best fighting games around. I haven't mention the extra multiplayer and single player modes this game has. The same care that Mortal Kombat 9 had is shown here, and I can't wait to try out the full game.