Interview Ed Boon Talks About His Most Wanted Fighter Watchmen And Making Move Sets

Fortunately, I was able to speak with the Creative Director of Injustice 2, Ed Boon, during the game’s launch event in Toronto where the legendary game creator pulled the curtain back a bit on DC Comics’ fight title.

What are some of the factors in choosing characters? Is it more based on plot or play style?

When developing movesets for characters, how do you go about making them and do you draw influence from actual material arts for some of the characters?

“And the third would be who we would want to see. You know? Like, I always wanted to have Doctor Fate in the first game and he just didn’t make the cut for whatever reason and there were other characters that we had to get in there. So in this game I was like “We’re getting Doctor Fate in this game.” Those are probably the big three factors.”

You’re pretty active on Twitter and people accuse you of trolling fans a lot which I’m sure is very entertaining on your end.

But I’ve also noticed that some of the suggestions that they’ve had have influenced the final game. So how seriously do you take those interactions?

Building off of that, I know you mentioned Watchmen at one point. Is that something that’s completely outside of the realm of possibility?

So no Rorschach?

How closely do you work with the people at DC to make interesting characters, to make sure they tie to everything, and creating the narrative as a whole?

Going back, you mentioned Doctor Fate being one of the characters you wanted to include in the first one. Is there a character you really wanted that you couldn’t put in this time around?

You’ll tweet it out, I’m sure.

It’s interesting to hear Boon touch on the potential of Watchmen characters being added in the future, especially since a number of fans have been pulling for a crossover of the property into the main DC Comics universe. Perhaps the likes of Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan aren’t all that far behind, but even then the final roster included in Injustice 2 is nothing to shrug at as is.

Injustice 2 is now available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.