Batman:Arkham Knight announced
"Explosive finale in the Batman Arkham series where players will take to the rooftop and now – the roads of Gotham as for the first time the iconic Batmobile becomes driveable”.
Set one year after the events of Arkham City, Game Informer states that a entirely new area of Gotham City is featured in the game, and the map is “far larger than Arkham City”.
The streets are wider to accommodate the Batmobile, and villains include Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and others.
Trailer
Box art:
Details from GameInformer:
- Last Batman game for Rocksteady, will work on something totally new next.
- Single Player only
- The game looks gorgeous,huge(it's built on a "juiced-up" version of Rocksteady's custom modified Unreal engine).
- No more pre-rendered cinematics everything is done in engine
- They spend a bunch of time talking about how detailed the models are, one character has more polygons than the environment of Asylum.
- 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
- Claim that Batmobile alone cannot be rendered on Xbox 360.
- Takes place in a new central zone of Gotham; split into 3 islands. Area is roughly 5 times the size of the Map in Arkham City.
- 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
- No load times at all,entering buildings is seemless.
- The larger riots can have up to 50 people flipping cars and looting stores.
- Increased the top glide speed and lengthened his hang time to compensate the larger area.
- The city streets are much wider to allow for the batmobile. You will rocket jump off ramps and do all sorts of cool maneuvers.
- Batmobile is designed to be "the best car in any game ever"
- Batmobile can be called at any moment with a button.
- You can launch into a fast glide from the Batmobile just like the trailer.
- 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
- Arkham Knight isn't just the name of the game.. it's also the name of the [new] villain.
- 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.
- 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.
- All quickfire gadgets can now be used during flight.
- Combat tweaks (for example, you can throw by tilting left towards the opponent and hitting counter)
Concep art & screenshots
Game is coming out for PC,PS4 and Xbox One later this year.
Me after soaking up all of that info and after seeing those screenshots
"Explosive finale in the Batman Arkham series where players will take to the rooftop and now – the roads of Gotham as for the first time the iconic Batmobile becomes driveable”.
Set one year after the events of Arkham City, Game Informer states that a entirely new area of Gotham City is featured in the game, and the map is “far larger than Arkham City”.
The streets are wider to accommodate the Batmobile, and villains include Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and others.
Trailer
Box art:
Details from GameInformer:
- Last Batman game for Rocksteady, will work on something totally new next.
- Single Player only
- The game looks gorgeous,huge(it's built on a "juiced-up" version of Rocksteady's custom modified Unreal engine).
- No more pre-rendered cinematics everything is done in engine
- They spend a bunch of time talking about how detailed the models are, one character has more polygons than the environment of Asylum.
- 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
- Claim that Batmobile alone cannot be rendered on Xbox 360.
- Takes place in a new central zone of Gotham; split into 3 islands. Area is roughly 5 times the size of the Map in Arkham City.
- 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
- No load times at all,entering buildings is seemless.
- The larger riots can have up to 50 people flipping cars and looting stores.
- Increased the top glide speed and lengthened his hang time to compensate the larger area.
- The city streets are much wider to allow for the batmobile. You will rocket jump off ramps and do all sorts of cool maneuvers.
- Batmobile is designed to be "the best car in any game ever"
- Batmobile can be called at any moment with a button.
- You can launch into a fast glide from the Batmobile just like the trailer.
- 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
- Arkham Knight isn't just the name of the game.. it's also the name of the [new] villain.
- 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.
- 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.
- All quickfire gadgets can now be used during flight.
- Combat tweaks (for example, you can throw by tilting left towards the opponent and hitting counter)
Concep art & screenshots
Game is coming out for PC,PS4 and Xbox One later this year.
Me after soaking up all of that info and after seeing those screenshots
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