Warner has released the
trailer already; although it still doesn’t reveal much more than the original
GAME leak. The footage appears to be pre-rendered, but with it being a next
gen-only game you can’t really tell nowadays.
‘We’re excited to be
developing the game for next gen platforms, which has allowed us to bring to
life the design elements that we envisioned from the beginning such as the
Batmobile and how it augments Batman’s abilities, to the fully detailed and
realised Gotham City,’ says director Sefton Hill in the accompanying blurb.
As expected Game
Informer has the official announcement, confirming the earlier details –
including the fact that the game is next gen only and out this year.
There are few other
specific details though, beyond that the game is set one year after the events
of Arkham City and that Batman is at ‘the peak of his powers’.
A
proper gameplay video is promised tomorrow afternoon, but in the teaser on Game Informer’s website game director Sefton Hill says, ‘This is the natural end for the
story. We really want to go out in style’.
The next Batman game is
by the original series creators and features an open world Gotham City with a
driveable Batmobile.
GAME have accidentally
revealed this year’s new Batman game, with an Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC
title named Batman: Arkham Knight.
It’s widely believed
that the game will be officially unveiled later today by American mag Game
Informer (we’ll update this story if and when that happens). But most of the
information already seems to have leaked via GAME’s now withdrawn listing.
The game is billed as
the final entry in the Arkham series, which Rocksteady began with Arkham Asluym
and Arkham City, and which understudies WB Games Monteral produced an
unnecessary prequel to last year – in the form of the okay-ish Arkham Origins.
As
the final part of the tetralogy Arkham Knight doesn’t seem to be a massive
departure from the previous games, with no signs of the rumoured other DC Comics
characters.
GAME’s blurb implies
that the Scarecrow is the major villain this time, with Penguin, Two-Face and
Harley Quinn also confirmed. Harley Quinn is also pictured as a playable
character in what look like pre-order exclusive challenged maps.
It now seems more
obvious than ever that Warner Bros. is trying to turn this into a yearly
franchise, likely with Rocksteady making one year’s game and Montreal the
other.
But if that is the case
it makes it harder to guess what next year’s game will be, if it’s not part of
the Arkham series. You’d hope they’d finally try to broaden things out to
encompass more of the DC universe, but then that was the assumption for this
game as well…
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