Injustice 2 didn't need a story mode, but it delivered a blockbuster anyway

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Injustice 2 wants to grab you and never let you go. At heart, NetherRealm's superb superhero smackdown may be a classic one-on-one beat-em-up but that core experience has been pumped up into an absolute smorgasbord of play determined to monopolise your time. It boasts 29 combative DC comics characters, each requiring Tamagotchi levels of care and attention to level up.
Then there are the hundreds, if not thousands, of randomised gear items to collect from Mother Boxes. Limited-time events dangle additional loot if you can overcome wacky and/or gruelling gameplay modifiers. Plus daily challenges to complete, co-operative guilds to join and AI battle modes to manage. All the while, your XP bar keeps ticking upward like a cosmic Fitbit, tracking your progress through Injustice 2's gorgeously realised Multiverse. (At first glance, the only real misstep seems to be NetherRealm naming the main in-game currency 'credits' rather than 'Booster Gold'.)
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