After EA decided to not pursue the development of a Batman game to coincide with the release of The Dark Knight movie earlier this year, news quickly sprung up regarding another Batman game in development at Rocksteady Studios.
This Batman game, however, doesn’t follow the story of film, The Dark Knight, but instead more closely resembles the Batman universe as told in the DC comic series. The story goes that, as Batman is delivering arch-nemesis, The Joker, to Arkham Asylum (for the umpteenth time, no doubt) a gang of inmates, comprising other super villains Batman has put away, decide to have a little fun with the Caped Crusader after setting a trap for him. The story then unfolds within Arkham Asylum.
The screenshots are looking particularly amazing, with a lot of facial detail which will hopefully translate to some good facial animations. No release date has been announced, so the closest you’ll get is by continuing to gawp at the screens below, or look forward to the next entry to the Lego series of games, Lego Batman.
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Comments:
Graphics look good, don't know why they wouldn't follow the story line from the movie. And EA needs to get their game up. They failed on their take over of Take Two, which is good for us consumers. Good move by Take Two. Good article also.
For the first time, there is finally a 2nd GOOD batman game. I am a Batman fanatic. But I'm glad they did not go by the Dark knight movie. They should just make a dark knight movie game sperately.
Edios is losing money! They putting everything on Tomb Raider, and whats going on with LEGACY OF KAIN SERIES!!!!
Great to see some Batman fans showing up. I'm also hopeful this new game turns out really well.
I think the issue with Legacy of Kain is that the co-developers, Silicon Knights, also somehow own part of the franchise and rumour has it (well, Dennis Dyack said) that they (SK) didn't part on such good terms with Eidos and Crystal Dynamics, was it?.