I got Suicide Squad the last time it was 80% off and although I've had SOME fun, I wouldn't really say it was worth it even at a budget price.

The core combat is definitely the best part, which is the bulk of the gameplay. Movement is generally very good and with a bit of practice you can zip, slide and fly around while shooting all at once. Once you settle on the character you enjoy most and get them leveled up it can be pretty addicting just charging from fight to fight. I like that even reloading has a dynamic element of getting faster reloads for timing them right. The endgame has some endless levels where the enemies slowly ramp up their stats as your increase your body count that can be a fun challenge.

Despite the "squad" focus, I feel like the game works fine for single-player. I've only played with others a couple of times and it didn't feel that much different than with bots other than human players seem to take longer to revive you vs. bots who are programmed to just come and pick you up once you're down. Maybe if I was part of well oiled full team instead of just having fun with a random single player I'd notice a bigger difference but I don't feel like I'm missing much playing on my own.

But the further you get away from the main combat, the worse things get. The attempts to introduce variation to make things less repetitive actually make fighting less fun. Collect dropped bits to toss at a weakpoint, guard a certain spot until a timer finishes, use the game's one and only vehicle to kill enemies, it all just feels like hoop jumping. You're not allowed to just enjoy slaughtering enemies during these parts, you gotta make time for these cliched objectives that unlike the combat, have no real novelty or thought put into them.

The level up system is very basic. Each character has their own unique skill trees, but on said trees you're only allowed to spend one point per each tier. You must then spend another point in the next tree, and the next before cycling back to the first one. It's a lot of excess to make the skill system look more complicated when it's very linear. Even more linear than the Arkham games which didn't have a complicated skill system either. Some tiers don't even have a choice, just one skill you MUST pick.

The equipment system though offers a lot more freedom. There's a lot of potential to make some busted builds and I've managed to cobble together some pretty satisfying ones myself, but it felt like it took a lot more work than it should have. Poor UI and weird design choices drag out what should be otherwise simple. You've got the standard colored tier levels for rarity but then you got pink "nefarious" gear which has unique bonuses and red "infamy" gear that have bonuses that get stronger for using more pieces from its specific set.

It took me a while to realize that each infamy set has three COMPLETELY different sets of bonuses based on the numbered tier AND what villain it belongs to. There's no in-game database listing all all the gear effects you see, you just got to look at EVERY item individually to see what they do. The game throws weapons and mods at you for everything you do so eventually you'll hit your cap meaning you'll have to constantly store or break things down to make room for more. If you don't, every bit of new loot gets stored in their own individual emails you must click on to claim to add ANOTHER clunky system onto the already bad inventory management.

And beyond those issues is this is still a very buggy and poorly optimized game, even six months past launch. I've been running the game on the lowest settings and still getting crashes fairly often. There's no easy way to quit missions and sometimes closing the game bugs out my weird online ID in a way that seemingly locks me out of the server for several hours. Sometimes you just can't get logged INTO the server at all and you MUST be logged on at all times, even when you're by yourself because this is an ALWAYS ONLINE game.

It's also a "live-service" game, but they've botched that so bad that the only way you'd notice if there's a costume you REALLY want that costs extra. They're still pushing out updates for these "seasonal" content additions, which suggests the dev team is being mandated to prioritize new content over fixes and improvements. And the in-game UI for the "episodes" at the time of writing this shows we're not even half-way through this weird multiverse adventure. Assuming things continue at the rate they are and they just don't pull the plug in the future, it'll be probably 9 months before they're done with the add-ons, which means it'll be that long before FIXES and OPTIMIZATION can be the priority.

They are doing bug fixes with the updates, but the notes for the last update clarify a previous fix wasn't retroactive and so they just UNLOCKED a bunch of in-game audiologs for the first three episodes cause they couldn't figure out an actual fix. And the unlock requirements for the audiologs for the most current two episodes have bugged out on me so I'm stuck waiting for a future fix to presumably just unlock them for me cause glitchy Riddler content (yes, he's back again...) is impossible to count for some reason.

I don't got a lot to say about the story because it's a mess lots of other people have already covered from different angles. The short version is you got numerous conflicting scripts and concepts all hastily cut and pasted together to form a schizophrenic trainwreck. Someone clearly really liked the Justice League. There's a lot of weight put into the scenes of them being used and mind-controlled by Brainiac... then someone else was asked to write bad jokes for the Squad to be annoying DURING these scenes, if even that. A long fight between Wonder Woman and Superman has the Squad standing around doing NOTHING for like three minutes, probably because they weren't even intended to be in that scene.

Although there's a LOT to take issue with, I'd say the biggest problem with the story is the Squad are just unfunny and awful. Harley and Boomerang are both just brash, dumb, losers with no redeeming qualities. Deadshot really isn't any better. He has a daughter he'll barely mention and a facade of being a "professional" that drops all the time to show he's as petty an stupid as the others.

King Shark, shockingly, is the only bright spot. He was effectively raised in prison and is very well educated but has little outside experience, which is mildly amusing. He's also the only who notes the cruel irony in having to kill heroes who actually SAVED the Squad just earlier in the game. The story would still be a mess, but if they populated the squad with more semi-likeable people who can occasionally be funny, that would have gone a long way to salvaging this mess.

You CAN unlock additional characters and as of writing this there's three new ones and presumably at least one more on the way. But this is part of the "episodes" set after the main plot, so none of these new people can interact with the main plot. There is a new plot in the episodes of rescuing the Justice League, whom apparently weren't completely dead or something?

As of writing this, both Flash and Green Lantern have been "saved" and they remaining "roadmap" makes it clear we'll save Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman in the coming seasons. But these seasons have VERY few cutscenes and clearly only a fraction of the budget the main game got, so this part of the "story" feels like an afterthought at best. You cram both Flash and GL into a cyro tube after getting them back so they don't have to write anything for them in the future.

TL:DR - Just keep waiting. Maybe check in on the game mid-2025 when hopefully they'll be done with these "seasons" and can start fixing things.

I really wanted to enjoy Suicide Squad, and at first, I did. The gameplay is fun, engaging, and at times, downright hilarious. It has a good mix of action and humor that kept me entertained. However, despite all its potential, the game has one massive flaw – it simply doesn’t let me play.
While trying to complete missions, I kept getting hit with "network errors" in a single-player game, which is frustrating. Imagine making progress on a mission only to be kicked out because the game thinks you’ve lost internet connection – even though that's not true! Annoying, but not a deal-breaker, right? You can just restart the mission. But the real problem is that after this happened, I couldn't even launch the game again.
I tried everything – verifying files, reinstalling, messing around in the game’s files – but nothing worked. When I reached out to WB support, I got no helpful response. To make things worse, I found out from their site that the issue could be caused by... RGB lighting on my keyboard! Yes, you read that right – RGB lighting could stop the game from working properly. It's both ridiculous and frustrating.
The game did randomly work for me once the next day, but then it crashed again with no error message. After multiple failed attempts to fix it, I just gave up.

In its current state, I simply cannot recommend Suicide Squad. As much as I enjoyed the gameplay, what’s the point of a game that won’t even let you play, with a support team that doesn’t seem to care? Until these issues are addressed, I'd say save yourself the trouble.

I wouldn't even wish my worst enemy to play this game...