Batman goes for a final spin

Update 2:

Rather than wait for Game Informer, 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.




Update:

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’.

We hope there’s a version of the ’89 movie car.

Original Story:

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 But most of the information already seems to have leaked via GAME’s now withdrawn listing.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…

Turbines to speed…

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