Ed Boon Wants Injustice 2 To Be More Than Just A Sequel
Fans were very excited to see that Injustice 2 was being made, but apparently, developer Ed Boon was more excited that they were excited:
“We wanted people to be excited, but the level that they were was something I was not expecting,” Boon told ComicBook.com in an interview at E3 2016. “We were so jazzed about it, and so glad that they were appreciating what we were doing.”
Injustice: Gods Among Us, was originally intended to be just a fighting game in the DC Comics universe, however, it evolved into something far more, including a comic book series telling the tale of what happened leading up to the game. This growth was very unexpected, and as such, Injustice 2 was not in the initial plans:
“We just tried to make a really cool superhero fighting game, that was our main objective,” Boon said. When the digital-first comicbook series and the mobile app version of the game took off, “it just became this amazing separate IP. The writing became on the wall that ‘Wow, we should continue doing stuff with this.'”
Boon would go on to note that the game will pick up after what happened in Gods Among Us:
“We are going to continue from after the first game’s events. There are these great chapters being told, and we are telling the third chapter, in a sense,” Boon said, pointing out the importance of the comic in the overall story. “There are a lot of nods in our environments to what’s going on in the story. When we start revealing those kind of details later in the year, that’ll be fun for people to pick up on.”
One thing Boon truly wants though is for the game to be more than just another title in a franchise:
“At the same time, we don’t want to just make a sequel of just more characters, more backgrounds. We want to add something substantial to it.”
Injustice 2 hits consoles in 2017.