Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Rating Spoils How Violent It Is Going To Get

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We now have some surprisingly graphic descriptions of the level of violence that you can expect in the upcoming Rocksteady Studios’ action game Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.

This description comes from Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the part of the Singaporean government that gives ratings for movies and video games.

The IMDA classified Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League as M18 for strong violence.

We will quote the said description of violence from the IMDA website below. Of course, content warnings for violence and spoilers follow.

 “Some of the areas in the city are strewn with corpses, some of which have missing limbs. These corpses cannot be interacted with. Splatters of purple fluid are frequently seen when enemies receive damage. Blood briefly stains the edges of the screen when the player character receives damage. The story scenes contain some depictions of violence which are tinged with dark humour, such as scenes implying a character’s finger being severed and subsequent jokes made about the severed finger. Other scenes contain stronger depictions, such as a character with a blade impaled in the neck, another’s heart being ripped out, and a man being decapitated with blood spurting out of the neck stump. Overall, these depictions would be more appropriate under a M18 rating where the Classification Guidelines allow “depictions of realistic violence, such as killing, maiming or causing other serious injury to humanoid characters.”

If you are wondering what this level of violence is doing in a video game starring Superman, well, 1979 was a long time ago.

Of course, a modern fighting game franchise, Injustice, has already explored the idea of Superman going rogue, but in