Batman: Arkham City

[solidsnakejej]

http://www.arkhamhasmoved.com/



Thought I'd make a thread. No big news yet but some leaked characters. Maurice LaMarche (Futurama) playing Mr. Freeze and Stana Katic (Castle) and Talia al Ghul, daughter of Ra's al Ghul.

http://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/news/1...-actors-leaked


Kevin Conroy (Batman) on the story:

We haven't heard much about Arkham Asylum 2 since it was announced during last year's Spike Video Game Award, but voice actor Kevin Conroy recently dropped an interesting tidbit for fans of the Dark Knight.
During a panel at the C2E2 comic convention in Chicago, Conroy -- whose most famous role is that of Batman in The Animated Series -- was reportedly tricked into revealing that Two-Face will be in the sequel (via Comic Book Resources).

"There's a very complicated cast," said Conroy, attempting to recover from the accidental reveal. "A lot of villains are in it. I'll just leave it at that!"

Arkham Asylum 2 will also be "really, really dark" Controy said, comparing it to fan-favorite animated film Return of the Joker.

"It involves a lot of the villains and it goes to that area -- it's that dark," he said.

Robin is also rumored to be joining the cast this time around. Thus far we've only had a teaser trailer to work from, but more info may be appearing at E3.

No word on a release date, but look for it sometime in 2011.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178891

[masteratt]

Inclusion of Robin may be an invitation for some co-op? I could see that being awesome.

[Nova]

Interesting, though, I wonder which Robin they're referring to; Dick Grayson or Jason Todd?

[solidsnakejej]

Retail saying earlier 2011 for release

"We've been told that Warner has acted early to avoid releasing the game into a heavily congested pre-Christmas market," our source told CVG. "It wants to dominate the first quarter of 2011 instead, when it can get maximum retail space and mindshare amongst gamers."

http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=243889

[AC!D]

That sounds a bit more reasonable. I had my doubts about them releasing anything good with a one year turn around but a year and a half sounds more reasonable to make a good sequel.

[Bsack]

I can't wait for this considering the first game was so great. Recently ran through it and I couldn't have been more pleased with how entertaining I was by this game. It reminded me of vintage Batman and you really felt like a badass. I hope this game starts where the last left off and add a few tweaks to the fighting mechanics,.

[Diresu]

That sounds a bit more reasonable. I had my doubts about them releasing anything good with a one year turn around but a year and a half sounds more reasonable to make a good sequel.

I am still worried by the short dev time. Still only barely over a year.

[Crazybone126]

I am still worried by the short dev time. Still only barely over a year.

Yeah, I'm with you. Such a short development time.

[solidsnakejej]

Mark Hamill confirmed.

Great interview about Hamill playing Joker
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/109/1092968p1.html

[solidsnakejej]

OXM and OPM to reveal first screens in next issue. Might hear something before that but within a month we'll see screens
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS

[Jay Gee]

If they're gonna be borrowing elements from No Man's Land, they're gonna need some Cassandra Cain. MMMmmmmmmm....

[solidsnakejej]

Can I get a title change?

Game releases Fall of 2011 renamed Batman: Arkham City

[TimmyJ]

If this game's the kind of sequel I'm hoping for, next year's GOTY may be in the bag.

[Segitz]

Arkham "City"... now I am not by any means "fluent" in Batman, but... shouldn't that rather be Gotham? Or is Gotham City a "burned" name? Or do they want a tighter connection to Arkham Asylum?

[drakkar]

Arkham "City"... now I am not by any means "fluent" in Batman, but... shouldn't that rather be Gotham? Or is Gotham City a "burned" name? Or do they want a tighter connection to Arkham Asylum?

I think it means to say that the city (Gotham) is now run by the nuts, hence the Arkham city.

[solidsnakejej]

No, I think it's that Arkham Asylum was completely compromised after the first game and they had to move the prisoners a block off portion of the city.

According to the developer, Arkham City "builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players soaring into Arkham City, the new maximum security 'home' for all of Gotham City's thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds."

[drakkar]

You are right Arkham was destroyed. So much for a philosophical feel!

[Crazybone126]

Well at least now it's releasing in 2011. Because its 2010 release was just WAY too soon. It was originally going to come out just 8 months after the first one.

[TimmyJ]

Moving from Arkham Asylum to a small part of Gotham City seems like a pretty intelligent decision on the part of the developers - increasing the scale by enough of an amount for it to be noticeable and for them to evolve the gameplay, but not by enough to overface them.

Provided this game does well - and, provided it ratchets up everything from the first, it should - I can imagine we'll get to see a third Batman game in sandbox style. Given how well designed the levels are in Arkham Asylum and how much it reminds me of Metroid, I can imagine a sandbox Batman game from these developers would surpass anything before it.

[Crazybone126]

Moving from Arkham Asylum to a small part of Gotham City seems like a pretty intelligent decision on the part of the developers - increasing the scale by enough of an amount for it to be noticeable and for them to evolve the gameplay, but not by enough to overface them.

Provided this game does well - and, provided it ratchets up everything from the first, it should - I can imagine we'll get to see a third Batman game in sandbox style. Given how well designed the levels are in Arkham Asylum and how much it reminds me of Metroid, I can imagine a sandbox Batman game from these developers would surpass anything before it.

I agree with you entirely. Now we can get the same effect of what Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and all of the other Batman movies have. Now since we're actually in the cityscape, we can actually be fighting crime within the streets, just as Batman is suppose to. Just as Batman does in the films. I also think they should approach a sandbox idea now since we're in the city. Batman is a vigilante, he's SUPPOSE to be fighting tough crime within the streets of Gotham as well, not just in some run-down asylum. He's suppose to be sitting at the top of a skyscraper awaiting any form of crime to break out. If this game were to be free roam, you should have the option to stop the crime or just let it happen without doing anything. A downside to that would be that the more you ignore crimes the more hate the citizens and law enforcement of Gotham will have towards you, whenever you come out at night they may do things to you and harm you if they spot you. I'm just freewriting here, but I think my idea just may work. The only downside would be, what would happen when daytime comes, Batman isn't suppose to be out in the daytime. Bruce Wayne daytime missions, anybody? Don't see that working too well, maybe it could, but you can't do anything as Bruce Wayne, he's just a business man. Think the vigilante missions for Grand Theft Auto, that's how this game should be, but of course having the Batman: Arkham Asylum ground work that's already been established. I've been looking for a free roam Batman game for many years and I still have never got it.