The mobile iteration of Injustice: Gods Among Us [Free] has been an absolute juggernaut on the App Store, and despite the console version being a top seller I wouldn't be surprised at all if the mobile version vastly outearned its older sibling. Part of the reason is that the mobile Injustice has received a constant stream of updates for the nearly 4 years it's been on the App Store, frequently adding new features and content to continuously keep its large audience of players engaged. While Injustice 2 is now officially in the works for consoles, when word of the sequel originally leaked last summer we thought that might mean a new Injustice for mobile too. However, with Warner Bros. and NetherRealm's update strategy for the original mobile game we weren't sure if a brand new app was in the cards or if it would simply be some more heavy updating to the existing game. Well, it looks like a full-blown new app sequel it is as today Injustice 2 has soft-launched in the Philippines App Store.
I'm still working my way through the early parts of Injustice 2, but right off the bat(man) you can see that the swipe-based fighting mechanics have been upgraded quite a bit over the original game. You still tap-tap-tap to perform basic combos, and swipe to perform lunging attacks, but now you can also do a swipe back+tap to throw a projectile, swipe up to do a jumping attack, or swipe down to do a crouching attack. This is still by no means a traditional fighter, but the mechanics were s...