What was the decision to make him Ryan Choi instead of Ray Palmer? To keep things really interesting in terms of character matchups. The whole idea of having a character that can shrink and do attacks and stuff like that, we really felt we needed to introduce new abilities, fresh ideas to mix things up. “And honestly, that was a big motivation to have him in there. This is even bigger than that?Ītom was already revealed for Fighter Pack 3 and the little we saw, he’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. Interesting you say that, because each fighter pack had that one character that was a total surprise, like Hellboy. I just watched the final version of the trailer and one of the fighters we’re going to reveal is going to be the biggest surprise.

You just dropped another hint from the upcoming new trailer right before this interview. I can never make it a serious conversation so I always try to keep it light.” For those players who are insistent and get petitions and get crazy admiration for characters. “But there’s a number of players that take it totally serious and are not messing around. It’s always fun to speculate who the next character will be. But it’s also fun to drop clues, start a dialogue and engage with people and speculate with people. So I definitely like to have fun with it, there’s definitely a tongue in cheek aspect to it.

The range of player reactions to that is all over the place. Do you get enjoyment out of teasing and interacting with them? Your Twitter game is very strong and you’ve used the platform to interact with fans on numerous things. Hellboy will join Injustice 2 Photo: NetherRealm Studios There’s a number of those factors that come into play with each character.” And some of them, there are circumstances that prevent us from doing it, whether the business aspect of it, or our team’s excitement for it, or we’re feeling it’s not a good match for the Injustice universe. Red Hood was easily the most requested fighter on the DC side from players. Red Hood was an absolute response from our team. And then we listen to what players are asking for. There’s a list of “let’s just throw out names, this could work that could work” and then have like 20 characters, or something like that. Speaking of Hellboy, when you have guest characters, is there a list of characters you want to use? What is that process like? Before the Hellboy people give us the ok, we can’t start working on him.”

There's a lot that has to be worked out before we can get confirmation of the character is going to be in the game, especially when there’s a guest character, when someone owns the rights to that character, like Hellboy. And most of the time we know several of them, but we don’t know the entire list from beginning to end. But when the game releases, we jump right into the DLC characters. There’s the process of manufacturing the disk and distribution and stuff like that. “When the game becomes available, we typically have been done with the game for weeks. What’s the process of deciding and creating DLC characters? Supergirl's heat rays differ from Superman's Photo: NetherRealm And she does have some similarities, like the heat vision and the cold breath that’s a signature to both of them, but we gave her a spin, that distinguishes her from him.” As for characters like Supergirl, she’s smaller than Superman, so we’ll make her more nimble, so she has the quick teleport move. That sent them into three different directions. Batman would have his gadgets, Robin would have his sword and Red Hood with his guns. Robin, we decided, was going to be swordplay, so that would be his thing. He never uses guns, so that separated the two. “In the case of Red Hood, he has a lot of gunplay. How do you differentiate between similar characters like Superman/Supergirl and Batman/Robin/Red Hood? Those things, usually, we have a good idea what matches the personality of the character.” Then we decide if we want to make them a rush down character or a projectile-based character or teleport, crazy character. The fact that their historical presentation is there, it sets us on a certain course and then you have the personality of the characters. “We're not going to make a character like Atrocitus - which is this gigantic Red Lantern, hulking fighter - play as light as Catwoman would or Robin would.

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