The upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has just been rated by Singapore’s Video Games Classification system for violence and other mature content. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is being developed by Rocksteady and is set in the studio’s beloved Batman: Arkham universe. However, instead of controlling the Dark Knight or one of his many allies, this spin-off will instead focus on the rag-tag team of supervillains known as Task Force X.

The Arkham universe was already one of the darkest takes on the DC gaming franchise, but Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League looks to be even bleaker and more violent. Earth’s greatest heroes have been taken over by the evil Brainiac, forcing Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark to team up and eliminate them. Suicide Squad’s Batman-focused Game Awards 2022 trailer featured a badly injured Flash and a version of Arkham’s Caped Crusader that seems willing to break his cardinal rule against killing, and it seems that Kill the Justice League may have even more violence and dark humor in store for players.

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was recently rated M:18 (mature 18+) in Singapore due to strong violence and coarse language. Among the many grisly and serious acts that earned Suicide Squad this rating are a character being impaled in the neck with a blade, another’s heart being ripped out, and yet a third being decapitated with blood spurting out of the neck stump. Suicide Squad also includes swear words like "mother**ker" and "f**k," as well as darkly humorous moments like a character's finger being severed and played as a joke throughout the game.

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This new rating comes right as Rocksteady is about to show off more of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League during today’s PlayStation State of Play livestream. New Suicide Squad gameplay footage will be shown, likely giving fans a better look at each playable character’s special abilities and the game’s controversial UI and equipment system.

Given that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League tasks players with murdering beloved heroes like Superman and Batman and that the title playable characters are very dark antiheroes on their best day, it shouldn’t come as a shock that the game has been given such a high rating in Singapore. While the US’s ESRB has yet to give its own verdict on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League it's very likely that it will be the third game in the Batman: Arkhamverse to receive a Mature rating, following 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight and 2016’s Batman: Arkham VR.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launches on May 26, 2023 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Source: Infocomm Media Development Authority