And this time, it's developed by Rocksteady. Not that craptacular Arkham Origins....

Info overload!

Within the past 24 hours, from being a rumoured poster at a ‘big gaming store’ in America, to a title, release date, and details a lot of information has come out about Batman: Arkham Knight. This article will consolidate everything you need to know about it.

A member of NeoGAF by the name of Nirolak has consolidated all the information that has been made public about Batman: Arkham Knight. Also thanks to NeoGAF users MiamiWesker, Ephemeris, and WordsintheWater for posting the original information.

- Last Batman game for Rocksteady, will work on something totally new next.
- There will be a brand new villain, something made by Rocksteady that they say will be the ultimate test for Batman
- Batmobile can be called at any moment with a button.
- The city streets are much wider to allow for the batmobile. You will rocket jump off ramps and do all sorts of cool maneuvers.
- You can eject jump out of the batmobile right into a super fast glide straight through the glass of a building to knock out enemies. They said glass breaking will be a big new thing.
- New moves include being able to use all your gadgets during flight. You now have a counter throw where you counter a guy and throw him into another guy. A new quick ground takedown. A quick backflip where you then throw a batarang in an enemies face.

- For the predator sections you can now chain takedowns of up to four enemies. For instance pop out of a grate and take one guy, jump to the next and so on. You can now enter grates from a distance, he will automatically do a jump or roll to enter them.

- Riddler challenges seem to be car based. The first one has you enter a sort of Riddler race track where you have to activate walls and ramps, when you activate one another closes so as you drive you have to be constantly turning on and off these ramps as you navigate the course.

- Batmobile fires missles and stun guns. It destroys anything it touches so if you bump into cars the cars go flying. It’s basically unstoppable.

- Story is that after Joker’s death all the criminals decided to work together and their plan comes together this night where they plan to kill batman. The article talks mostly about Scarecrow, he scattered bombs throughout Gotham.

- Oracle will play a larger role, you get to visit her base and talk to her, tons of batman easter eggs included.

- Kevin Conroy is Batman, all the previous voice actors are back.
- Gothom City is 5 times bigger than AC. Split into 3 areas. NO LOAD TIMES at all, entering buildings is seemless.
- They spend a bunch of time talking about how detailed the models are, one character has more polygons than the environment of Asylum.
- Batman will start off with the old batsuit and upgrade at some point in the game.
- It says it is running on their modified Unreal engine.
- All quickfire gadgets can now be used during flight.
- Combat tweaks (note: Not enough time to go over these in detail. for example, you can throw by tilting left towards the opponent and hitting counter)
- Arkham Knight isn’t just the name of the game.. it’s also the name of the [new] villain.
- Fear Takedowns. ie, burst out of grate, action slows down allowing you to target another goon for another attack and so on. Can be used on groups up to 3 as long as they’re close enough together and no one has already spotted Batman.

- They seem to try to tackle the old school Arkham issue of “open door – black screen loading”
- The game looks gorgeous. Huge.
- “This is a single-player game. There is no multiplayer.”
- You can launch into a fast glide from the Batmobile just like the trailer.
- No more prerendered cinematics everything is done in engine
- The larger riots can have up to 50 people flipping cars and looting stores.
- Things such as Gordon’s trench coat and Batman’s cape now have Apex cloth physics.
- They react realistically to changes in wind and movement
- When it rains rains bead of water run down Batman’s suit tracing every groove
- The wrinkles on Gordon’s face crinkle as he talks
- The city is as detailed as ever with realistic moving clouds with the moon shining through
- Halloween characters and balloons litter the street adding a creepy vibe
- Neon signs of the various shops shine brightly around the city
- The skyline has helicopters and blimps flying through it
- Steam puffs out of the sewers in a realistic way
- Will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC

Credit - Neogaf

You know, come to think of it, this new Bruce Wayne in Arkham Knight looks like.... yeah, Ben Affleck.

Obviously in-game models would look nothing like the CG trailer but... hmmm, interesting.

Ark..what? That isn't a batman game.

Iron Man's eyes....

I don't know if kesian or not, but if Arkham Knight needs to be dumbed-down for last-gen consoles then please for the love of Thomas Wayne, NO.

The batmobile itself apparently is larger than the 360's memory footprint combined, obviously they are exaggerating, but if it needs the power and memory of the current-gen consoles then yeah that's what the devs have got to do.

Promotional doctored-screenshots. You should be able to tell by now.

Gotham is bigger than Arkham City.... as was already confirmed.

Blitz through the street with the batmobile at 160mph and then eject Batman and hook to the nearest vantage point and glide then divebomb down into a group of unsuspecting goons.

So... uhm, Batman Arkham Asyulm and City will be getting a remaster, coming later this year to PS4/Xbone.

Yeah.

Obvious GOTY edition will be out some time next year. Considering the season pass will last 6 months.

Game has leaked. Heh.

Lelz at Polygon:





IGN has got a new competitor for the award of journalism idiocy. The game has issues, it's not perfect and it's not the best game so far this generation.

It's a very good game though, that much is certain.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jun 19 2015, 11:36 PM

Off topic, but Bloodborne. And even then, that game is with several very fundemental flaws.


I actually agree with Gamespot's review more, for once. Batmobile sections should have never been forced down your throat.

It's as if Rocksteady is telling players: "look, you guys wanted the blackmobile so badly, you've been shouting at us since the end of Arkham Asylum, here it is now and you'll play through it how we want you to because you know what? It's the best batmobile ever."

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jun 20 2015, 02:43 PM

Season of infamy is kinda shit tbh. It's damn short which is an insult considering how much it costs. Rocksteady had the balls to call this an expansion and made a whole video hyping it.

The quality? Except for Madhatter, the others are half assed.