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Batman: Arkham Knight; For: PS4, XBone, & PC
Topic Started: Mar 3 2014, 09:01 PM (1,917 Views)
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DC is also teasing a reveal on their "All access" show tomorrow (3/4 as of this writing) featuring "brand new news you won't want to miss."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNL8xjQh4D4

Bleeding Cool confirmed a new Batman game is incoming and will be announced during the upcoming episode:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/03/03/dc-comics-to-announce-batman-arkham-knight-game-tomorrow/

...and there's a domain name for "Arkham Knight" currently up:
http://www.batmanarkhamknight.com/

Watch it be a fancy name for some Arkham Origins DLC, haha.
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Rocksteady has been inviting people from gaming publications to their company since last month for a secret meeting, so i'm willing to bet that they will be unveiling the new game soon enough.

The Arkham Origins story DLC was already confirmed to be "Cold, Cold Night" staring Mr. Freeze which is somewhat inspired by the infamous Mr. Freeze episode "Heart of Ice" from B:TAS, so this is probably the new Rocksteady Arkham game. Check out the "Cold, Cold Night" trailer as it's pretty . . . cool! *Runs for his life*
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What do I have to do to get a Batman Beyond game?
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Batman: Arkham Knight (PC/PS4/XB1, 2014) - TRAILER - Driveable Batmobile

Trailer: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/04/bak-debut-trailer-90348602352.aspx
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuD0Inb9Gs

Information: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/04/april-cover-revealed-2014-1039752374.aspx

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The developer that made Arkham a household name is back. Rocksteady Studios' Arkham Asylum innovated with the freeflow combat system and stalking gameplay in 2009, and the team blew it all out to an open world in 2011's Arkham City. Rocksteady is hoping to raise the bar even higher on what will be its final Arkham game. Set after the events of Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Knight may just end the Dark Knight's journey.

As you've probably guessed from the cover imagery, the Batmobile is finally a core element of the gameplay. An entirely new area of Gotham City, far larger than Arkham City, has much wider streets to accommodate the new driving gameplay that is designed to integrate smoothly with Batman's gliding and grappling traversal. Batman chases down super villains Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and more.

Arkham Knight will release later this year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. We've got 14 action-packed pages loaded with the first details and a whole month of exclusive content here on gameinformer.com. Get a sneak peek at what's in store in our coverage trailer below and come back for the debut game trailer at 10 AM Central Time.
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Very hype on this one. I hope the other members of the Bat-Family do more than just put in obligatory cameos, especially given the dark(er) path Bruce started down after the climax of Arkham City.
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AmuroNT1
Mar 4 2014, 10:09 AM
Very hype on this one. I hope the other members of the Bat-Family do more than just put in obligatory cameos, especially given the dark(er) path Bruce started down after the climax of Arkham City.
Agreed! We need a Nightwing or Red Hood mode badly...And I'm not talking challenge maps!
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AmuroNT1
Mar 4 2014, 10:09 AM
Very hype on this one. I hope the other members of the Bat-Family do more than just put in obligatory cameos, especially given the dark(er) path Bruce started down after the climax of Arkham City.
I've heard the setting is No man's land this time, so I am expecting them to give Cassandra Cain a role. Would be awesome if we get her as a playable batgirl and Damian as a playable robin.

Also official site: https://www.batmanarkhamknight.com/

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For the love of god, change the title at some point.
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Ovan
Mar 4 2014, 10:22 AM
For the love of god, change the title at some point.
Darkham Knight confirmed.
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Mar 4 2014, 10:15 AM
I've heard the setting is No man's land this time, so I am expecting them to give Cassandra Cain a role. Would be awesome if we get her as a playable batgirl and Damian as a playable robin.

Also official site: https://www.batmanarkhamknight.com/

Arkham City kind of had the No Man's Land plot going, but on a more limited scale. One of the Riddler puzzles unlocked a story about a minor earthquake, and an early trailer actually showed a road sign with "NO MANS LAND" grafitti'd onto it, but that was changed in the final game maybe so people wouldn't assume it was a direct adaptation.

There's one thing I wonder about, though. The hidden Scarecrow messages from City included "You will pay for what you did to me". All Bats really did in Asylum was beat him up a bit, and then Croc grabbed him, and one of the three stingers showed Scarecrow's hand grabbing onto a crate of Titan. So who knows, maybe old Johnny will be an actual boss fight instead of an acid trip.
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Wasn't he just an Acid Trip again in Arkham City? I don't remember.

Still haven't played Arkham Origins either.
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Norman freakin' Jayden

So I guess this is the AssCreed of superhero games now then.
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Mar 4 2014, 11:35 AM
Wasn't he just an Acid Trip again in Arkham City? I don't remember.

Still haven't played Arkham Origins either.
Scarecrow wasn't in City, but Ra's al Ghul's missions had a similar kind of boss fight.
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And in Origins, Mad Hatter played it up as the Acid Trip portion of the story. Copperhead as well to some extent.

Overall, it seems they're going to redesign Gotham to make the Batmobile driving workable which i'm excited about for two reasons. One, I've always wanted to drive the Batmobile in an open world! Two, even though I liked Arkham Origins, it was flawed in certain areas, but the most notable of which was how disappointingly bland Gotham City was (save for random crimes, that was an awesome addition). Overall, i'm looking forward to a Gotham hat has, you know, actual atmosphere.

And next gen exclusive? Nice, I need more games made exclusively for the newer systems.

And i'm excited to see how Scarecrow plays into this. They had a lot of hints in Arkham City about what he was up to so I have a high level of expectancy.

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Still haven't played Arkham Origins either.


I'll repeat what I said above: good game, but flawed. And I don't like that WB has abandoned making anymore patches for the near future when there are still some people are experiencing game breaking glitches.

Arkham Origin's best point is its story. I can honestly say that it in many ways did Joker better than Asylum and City did. The way they introduce him for the first time is just plain fantastic. And his lines are great.
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[utube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKZrGCF1yog[/utube]

A summary of the GameInformer article about this game. The TL;DR version:
-Rocksteady pretty well acknowledges that AO was a stop-gap game because they thought it was too much to expect fans to hold onto interest three years after AC's release.
-The game is set one year after AC, with Batman developing ever more powerful gadgets to protect Gotham while the villains unite to come up with a play to defeat the Bat once and for all. Scarecrow plants bombs with a new strain of fear gas throughout the city, forcing an evacuation, and the alliance of villains includes Penguin, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and Riddler.
-The game world is five times larger than AC, with larger buildings and more open space. Batman's gliding and grappling abilities have been enhanced to help deal with this, and you can use the Line Launcher and quickfire gadgets at any time during a glide. The number of enemies is also greatly increased, and you can come upon riots with up to 50 thugs trashing store fronts.
-Bats starts the game in the Batsuit from AC and will upgrade to a new one during the game.
-The Batmobile is insanely detailed; the model alone is 160MB, and by itself would take up a whole Xbox 360 disc. The player essentially has to choose between when they want the speed and armor of the Batmobile and when they want to hop out and do stuff as Batman. The Batmobile can lock onto enemy vehicles and fire a missile-like device to immobilize them without harming the passengers.
-Combat has been tweaked a bit more; there's now a quick ground takedown move, and environmental actions (like slamming a thug into a power box to shock him and knock him out). Batman's ability to counter weapons now includes the ability to actually use them (the demo shown to GI had him counter a baseball bat, then use it to wallop the thugs attacking him).
-In terms of Predator Mode, you can now access grates from farther away, with Bats performing a quick roll (kind of sounds like the slide move from the new Thief). There's a new type of fear-based takedown that lets you deal with groups of enemies (up to 3 at a time) as long as they're close enough together and none of them have spotted you yet; during the takedown the action slows down and you can pan the camera over to new targets before pressing a button to dash in and attack.
-The voice cast from the past games returns, with Kevin Conroy as Batman again.
-There'll be a new OC villain actually called the Arkham Knight, who's being designed by Geoff Johns in cooperation with Rocksteady. His costume is said to look like a militaristic Batsuit with the Arkham "A" logo on it, and he wields a silenced pistol.
-Absolutely no multiplayer component this time. Rocksteady is being very clear about this, saying they don't have the time and don't feel it's necessary.
-Everything is rendered with the in-game engine; there aren't any pre-rendered cutscenes. Also, the polygon and texture sizes have been vastly increased; a single AK character has the same polycount as the entire AA map.
-Oracle will apparently be a physical presence in this game, with Batman visiting her clocktower lair. The lair had shout-outs to the Animated Series (a movie poster for "The Ghost Wore Gray") and the Adam West series (a bust of Shakespeare with an identity scanner).
-The game is supposedly slated for an October 14 release on PS4, Xbone, and PC; the pre-order bonus is a set of four challenge maps where you play as Harley, who has her own unique set of weapons and gadgets.
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-The Batmobile is insanely detailed; the model alone is 160MB, and by itself would take up a whole Xbox 360 disc.
What? XD

This is awesome!

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-The game world is five times larger than AC, with larger buildings and more open space. Batman's gliding and grappling abilities have been enhanced to help deal with this, and you can use the Line Launcher and quickfire gadgets at any time during a glide. The number of enemies is also greatly increased, and you can come upon riots with up to 50 thugs trashing store fronts.
Wow, this game is going to be huge. And i'm happy that we're finally going to get large skyscrapers. One of the biggest disappointments of AO was that you couldn't grapple to the top of every building, especially the newly developed large ones.

Also, I keep hearing that this is apparently the finale of the series. I wonder what Rocksteady will do next?
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Yeah, Rocksteady mentioned that this will be their finale for Batman and that their next project isn't a Batman game.

Sneak peek of the Arkham Knight:
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  • Arkham Knight isn't based on a character from the Batman comics, but is a brand new villain created for Rocksteady by writer Geoff Johns.
  • A man with Batman's skills and tech who has no problem using guns or killing.

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While they are saying that it's a completely new character, I wonder how far that meaning will go. I say that namely because a part of my wants to believe that under that mask it's Hush . . . which would be awesome. The leftover thread from Arkham City that they keep failing to mention is Hush and his desire to gain revenge over Bruce Wayne.

Another possibility is that the Arkham Knight is a member of Azrael's order.

Or maybe he works for Ra's Al Guhl since Ra's survived Arkham City.
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It's actually...

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Just one problem with that.

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Mar 5 2014, 05:27 PM
It's actually...
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Or maybe...

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All kidding aside, this game pushed me over the edge and now I've been somewhat obsessing over picking up a PS4. As such, I pre-ordered Arkham Knight earlier today (as well as MGS V: Ground Zeroes) at Gamestop and got a swanky 75th Anniversary poster for my trouble.
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Arkham Knight new screens.

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Also, the Walmart pre-order information mentions a Prototype Batmobile skin, so apparently it'll have "alternate costumes" too.
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Nightclub Batmobile from Batman Forever!
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