Injustice: Gods Among Us (new NRS fighter)

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios have just unveiled Injustice: Gods Among Us, which is a superhero fighting game set in the DC Universe. Based on the debut trailer above, it appears as though something has turned the Earth's greatest heroes into the Earth's deadliest villains, who are now pitted against each other in mortal combat.

Spotted characters include Batman, Superman, the Flash, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn (!!), Lex Luthor and Solomon Grundy, all of whom seem capable of delivering incredible amounts of damage to one another. Injustice: Gods Among Us will launch for on the PS3, 360 and Wii U sometime in 2013.

Update: Injustice's character roster is split into two categories: "Power" characters like Superman and Wonder Woman, and "Gadget" characters like the Batman and (presumably) Harley Quinn. Depending on a character's class, they'll be able to interact with the environment in different ways. Batman may be able to slam Wonder Woman's head into a parked car, for instance, while Wonder Woman is able to slam a parked car into Batman's head.

Environmental hazards are set to play a major role in the game, adding a bonus level of strategy to each character match-up, according to this video interview with NetherRealm's Ed Boon: "You're really going to want to care where you are, in which background, with which character."

Additionally, the debut trailer clearly shows the Flash narrowly avoiding a massive icicle, which may be a strong indicator of the presence of either Captain Cold or Mr. Freeze. Injustice will have "at least as many" fighters as Mortal Kombat, according to Gamespot.

[LilLeftBrain]

wicked trailer, but gonna pass just out of personal preference
<3 you harley boo

[The ILLatino]

Flash wearing armor? Nah, homie.

Still, it does look intriguing, even if it's a little overboard on the grim-n-gritty.

[Combo7]

Starting to get hyped.

[Hayzoos]

Looks fuckin sweet. Wish it was gonna be M instead of T like Mortal Kombat though.

[Combo7]

Looks pretty damn violent to me. A fullblown MK splatterfest would be really out of place in the DC universe.

[Combo7]

Feeling pretty lonely on this hype train. 360 where you at? drobizhek? Panama?

[odium-LSC]

I for one will be purchasing this when it comes out. looks like a lot of detail went in to this.

[Combo7]

I'm curious to see whether the fighting game community embraces all the environmental interaction, or if that stuff will just get switched off for tournaments.

[LameAim]

I'm balking. Never really got into the MK-style fighters, plus I'm still on UMVC3 (broken as fuck games as it is), plus I just picked up SFXT on the late tip.

[Combo7]

Dude: NO BLOCK BUTTON. The time is now.

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GAME OF THE YEAR AND NOBODY GIVES A SHIT

[Tired & Broke]

I read over at the SRK forums that the netcode for online play was horrible.

[Combo7]

Yeah, apparently you're okay if you get paired up with someone on your coast, but coast-to-coast play is dicey and international play is damn near impossible. Hoping they iron out some of the issues via patching. Every fighting game should be required to use GGPO.

It's a shame because the game is fun as shit.

[drobizhek]

I haven't tried this one, but in the past 10 or so MK games they haven't shown they understand how frames work. The good thing is they do patch their games so they take out the broken things eventually.

That being said, neither does Capcom but I still love UMVC3 :)

I'll report back if I get a chance to play it.

[drobizhek]

BTW SF4 is getting an update.

[Tired & Broke]

Yeah I heard about the SF4 Update, also heard an Alpha 4 may be in the works also.

[drobizhek]

After the bad sales figures of SFxT, Darkstalkers, 3s:O I'm skeptical. But I do hope we get A4.

[Combo7]

Kind of upset about Darkstalkers Resurrection not doing well. Would have loved a fourth installment.

[drobizhek]

I know ArcSys is developing another fighter for the next generations of consoles, so I'm not worried about the future. And I'm pretty sure SF5 will come out on next gen.

[Tired & Broke]

Kind of upset about Darkstalkers Resurrection not doing well. Would have loved a fourth installment.

Capcom charging $15 really didn't help either. That's the main reason everyone fell back from it.

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Injustice is on sale for $35 at Toys R Us until May 4.