Injustice 2 in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ Injustice Great Idea, so-so execution.

I’m a relative newb to this game, as I’ve only been playing solidly for a month. And after a month here are my thoughts. For a free mobile fighting game the graphics, story, campaign, and overall fights are fun. However, what I have noticed is once you start developing your characters, things start to cost more. For instance fighting a normal heroic battle costs 7 energy. Fighting the main boss costs 12, but at about account level 15 or so that only gets you about 65-70 total energy for about an 8 hour period. Then when you get to a boss in a campaign you are not even guaranteed shards for that boss for a win! Or another example is the gold character challenges that are offered, you can reasonably fight the level 1 challenge with a few characters that you haven’t spent time, money and effort leveling up. But then level 2 challenge requires a threat level of 50k plus to even have a chance. Arena events are similar. But when you aren’t paying money to play you have no real shot at unlocking characters that you want or even ones you don’t. And there are only characters that can be unlocked if either you have been playing them forever or you have a ton of money to spend. How about instead of making everything cost so much offer a season pass that lets you unlock characters, or add them to campaigns or something to that effect. Overall a good game if you want to pass time.

★★★★★ Overall great game, but....

I just had to write a review for this. Since I’m here I might as well give my thoughts though, so here they are. This is actually a pretty great mobile fighting game! I haven’t played many fighting games on mobile, but I can definitely say this game nails most the areas that Contest of Champions is lacking in. The addition of a story mode (alongside the campaign) is a great way to kill some time and introduce you to the game. Campaign on its own is fun. The gameplay is waaay better than Contest of Champions, since it handles the attack system a bit differently, making the combos really satisfying to pull off. I just have a small problem with the game that, while petty, will keep me from giving it five stars...and it’s registering the Mortal Kombat representation in the game. Specifically, the blatant lack of a playable Scorpion. While the game is fun on it’s own, he’s the whole reason I bought the game in the first place. I’m pretty sure he used to be in this game, or at least the first Injustice on mobile...so why is he now absent? It feels weird seeing Sub Zero and Raiden, but no Scorpion...seriously, I would pay money for this character. I don’t know why he isn’t in the game as of now, but it just feels like he should be in the game. Think of how Jump Force launched without a rematch option. (It still doesn’t have one....) Anyway, great game. Still can’t give it five stars until I see Scorpion though.

★★★★★ Good but Skewed

First I just wanna say how much I love this game, I’ve been playing it I think since the first month or 2 after it came out and have always loved it, I’ve been at the max player level for awhile now and I still love playing it especially with the new content always being added. The reason I leave 4 stars instead of 5 is the skew of power rating in the characters. I understand the games like these with the options to buy more powerful characters will always give those who spend money on the game an advantage, I’m fine with that, and this is not about that by itself and I’ve spent a lot of money on the game myself. However it’s so frustrating that the characters you usually have to buy are always waaaaaaaay more powerful than what their “power levels” are. I’m fine with them being more powerful but just let them be labeled as such, it’s ridiculous how often a character with 90k threat quickly and easily annihilates a character with 270k threat. I’ve been on both sides of that like every time I play virtually and whether it’s in my favor or not it’s still annoying, if a character is super powerful than their “threat level” should reflect that, I think we all understand that if we give the game money we get stronger characters, just let the threat levels reflect that ffs.

★★★★★ NR up the rewards, latest update is very humbling.

Ok NR if you want to up the character level to 80 then up the rewards system. Sure I know it’s not suppose to be easy to achieve that level but seriously it’s very hard to even have the orbs to get one character beyond level 70. I have been playing for nearly 2 years not even close to getting the orbs even for leveling a average character beyond 70. The level 7 XP capsule is a nice touch to build XP but why not offer to buy a level 7 capsule in the league store even if it costs more league credits? And your reward system for league raids is abysmal at best. The difference of rewards from raid 6 to 7 is a compete embarrassment!! Even if a league member that places first in raid 7 the reward can be just trash. Up your rewards for the hard work people put in to these time consuming raids. I barely find the rewards for Raid 7 hardly better than Raid 6 despite bosses having 10X more health. Where is the payoff for a Raid that we work that much harder for? I am not saying reward the high profile characters shards and gear out like it’s nothing but at least make it a real possibility to get something great even if it’s rare to win it. The Firestorm gear for placing high in R7 is getting stale at best. Please up the rewards for the loyal players who have stuck with this game to keep playing. Because as of now it feels more of a chore than fun anymore.

★★★★★ Before you buy /play

This game is great however, in game progression is so painfully slow. You’ll end up having to grind levels over and over just to get better gear items, which are %85-%90 RNG. The campaign has some cringe and simplistic dialogue even though the graphics are very good looking for a mobile game. Then when you get to mid/ late game you’ll be stuck either grind a lot or hitting a “pay wall”. The PvP is a pain, due to encountering many pay to win players time and time again. I would suggest to the developers to maybe improve matchmaking quality. And possibly make earlier levels more “beginner friendly”. That aside, it’s a ok game. It also pisses me off how notifications keep popping up constantly reminding you to buy “the latest challenge pack” which kind of defeats the purpose of doing the challenges to only gain 1 hero. When instead you could only pour a lot of money into the game for fast progression. Also the Winning/Spending ratio seems way off. What do I mean by that you ask?. What I mean is that what you earn is way to little and the “packs” or “bundles” cost way too much. So bottom line, I would suggest an economy rework, with some minor tweaking in the campaign. I hope this review was helpful and I ask the developers not to take this criticism in a bad way. I just hope they read this so they’ll be able to make the game more fair and fun for everyone to enjoy. :)

★★★★★ Good Game but needs TLC

The game is honestly addicting and super fun but the guts of the game can’t seem to keep up. Whether I’m on WiFi or full bars of service there’s still always a massive lag with fighting and I continuously have a problem with equipping an unequiping items. Now I know it can’t be my phone because I have the 12 pro max, so I think it would be very useful to be able to control the quality the game try’s to put out such as being able to turn down the graphics and more advanced options. Also, the game is very expensive. Alittle to expensive for my taste and doesn’t seem to really reward such behaviors to honestly. I’ve spent upwards of $30 in trying to open cases and what they deem as “special offers” but have gotten the same basic characters multiple times in a row. Now yes this can be looked at as a positive thing but at the same time is a big setback for me, only because why would I want to toss more money into the game if all I’m going to get back is the same thing back to back to back. Other games I’ve played give alittle more love to the dollar bill where in this case, $60+ is most likely the only way you’ll get something worth fighting for and that’s the same price as a full game on a real system which has a full story/ campaign mode and I also don’t have to constantly refresh or restart my game in order to get past the game lagging or freezing.

★★★★★ Good but cheap game

I really enjoyed the game when I first started playing it because it was fair. If I lost I accepted it because either A, the teams threat was to much for my team to handle or B, because I wasn’t good enough. At this point I’ve been playing this game for around 2 months and am fairly far into it. The only reason I lose now is because the game ignores its own rules it made and will somehow take out my entire team because I pressed a ability or tried to tag in my character and it takes about 10 seconds to do so. PLEASE fix this injustice it’s ruining the game for me. This isn’t the only problem though. I will lose a bunch of matches because when the other team is about to lose they end up interrupting my combo or delaying my special moves and therefore giving the opponent a chance to attack me and they do and end up taking all three of my character out in about 5 seconds. And let me remind you that no matter what you do you the player CAN NOT do that as well. So basically I’m led to believe that injustice purposely makes you lose games by not activating your ability when you press it, not registering your moves or even interrupting your combos. Who knows why this is a feature and why it had reminded ever since they released the game but please start working and fixing this. Makes the game very unenjoyable and discourages me to get on next time.