The fighting genre's blundering misadventures in storytelling might be something of a running joke in our video game community, but when a game—any game—opens with the headline "Metropolis Destroyed, Millions Dead," it's really hard not to sit up and take notice. I'm not saying I'm totally sold yet, but the team at NetherRealm Studios (you know, the Mortal Kombat guys) sure knows how to make an entrance.
IGN's latest hands-on demo with the DC Comics-based brawler Injustice: Gods Among Us finally blew the lid off the game's story mode, which understandably apes MK9's style of interspersing cutscenes between each fight to create an overarching narrative. While the devs declined to give me a rundown of the overall story citing unspecified spoilers, they did let me play the entire first chapter.
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