Rocksteady could return to Batman after the flop of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Rocksteady could return to Batman after the flop of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. According to a Bloomberg report, the development team is about to pitch a single-player project to Warner Bros. that “brings the studio back to its roots”, and many immediately thought of Batman.

Journalist Jason Schreier had the opportunity to speak with several members of the team, who confirmed this the problematic situation during the making of Kill the Justice Leaguethe delays, a vision subject to constant changes and the change of genre that ultimately proved disastrous.

The idea of ​​developing a looter shooter with a live service structure seems to have arrived towards the end of 2016 and the studio’s top management communicated it to their collaborators, putting aside a previous concept for focus on the renewed popularity of the Suicide Squad.

It was a genre that was all the rage at the time and seemed like it could represent the future of the videogame market, but Rocksteady had no experience in this regard having only created single player experiences such as the chapters of the Batman: Arkham saga.

Increasingly pressing requests

According to Schreier’s report, the leaders of Rocksteady they frequently asked for new features to be introduced in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and this represented a significant increase in development complexity.

Sefton Hill, co-founder of the studio, he was the most demanding and perfectionistand it was mainly his approach, according to those interviewed, that caused the significant production delays and multiple postponements to which the game was subject.

In 2022, Hill and Rocksteady’s other co-founder, Jamie Walker, left the company and the project was taken over by the rest of the development team, who finally released the tie-in only to see it mistreated by critics , which he assigned to him grades tend to be low.

According to statements provided by Warner Bros., Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a failure and did not meet expectations, which is why, according to some people close to the situation, Rocksteady leaders intend to propose a new single player game that brings the study back to its roots.