LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham The Squad DLC-BAT
The level itself is very reminiscent of the prison break level from Lego Marvel Super Heroes and is of the longest of the Season Pass levels, stretching over three areas which is a good thing given the size of the team at play. Some of the characters like Harley Quinn are already in the proper game, but it’s nice to see them in their newly designed Squad outfits from the New 52 redesign. Each has a part to play: Captain Boomerang destroys silver blocks El Diablo melts gold blocks and King Shark is the big-fig character, but other characters like Katana seem to be pointlessly added as they’ve never been associated with the Suicide Squad and their role in completing the level is performed by Deadshot. There’s no attempt to link this in with Arrow, though a few of the team members have appeared on the show, but it’s a nice Easter egg none the less.Īn issue I had with the last Season Pass level, Bizarro World, was that the level provided a lot of extra characters that had nothing to do with the stage, which is not the case here, in fact there’s almost too many characters at play. The entire level is narrated by the head of the squad, Amanda Waller, and once again TT Games utilized the cast of Arrowto effect like they did in that extra level, bringing in Cynthia Addai-Robinson who plays the same character on that show. Waller equips a number of team members with “special collars” to make sure they don’t try to escape, placing Deadshot in charge of fellow inmates including Harley Quinn, El Diablo, Deathstroke, and King Shark.
Rounding out the Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Season Pass is a level dedicated to the team, with the “Suicide” removed (this is a family game after all) that just happens to fix a lot of the issues I’ve had with previous parts of the Lego Batman 3 Season Pass content, namely length and character utilization.Ī break-in attempt by outside forces at Belle Reve penitentiary prompts Amanda Waller to assemble a new version of “The Squad” to handle the threat. The Suicide Squad have been getting quite the push from DC over the past couple of years: they were teased in 2013’s Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate They shared the spotlight with Batman in the direct-to-DVD feature Batman: Assault on Arkham A version of the team appeared on The CW’s Arrow TV-series and who could forget the theatrical feature film set to hit next year starring the likes of Will Smith and Jared Leto.