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Arkham City Will Not Have Load Screens


Rocksteady has announced that their upcoming sequel, Batman: Arkham City, will not have any load screens while exploring Gotham city.

In an interview with CVG, Rocksteady's game marketing manager, Dax Ginn, stated,
“Everywhere that’s open to the sky is available to the player from the off. So they can go anywhere they want and that was the emotional feeling that we wanted to convey; you’re Batman, you can do what you want. That’s the empowering thing that Arkham Asylum didn’t really deliver because it was such a linear, tight, intense story."

“It’s all open, all the time. Our technical director was like, ‘What? You want an open-world that’s open all the time that’s five times bigger than anything we’ve done before? Are you crazy?’”
Ginn did note that eliminating all load times through out Gotham City was a "massive, massive" challenge.

Ginn then went on to re-confirm that the game would not be including a multiplayer aspect but would not rule it out of future Batman installments.
“We considered it pretty briefly and then realised that it would have hit and hurt our production and also it didn’t really make a lot of sense for a game that is so single character-centric. I can totally see that multiplayer is a super popular thing and online playability seems to be growing and something that people desire. So I can’t say that what’s going to happen down the track, but for Arkham City we’re focused on the single-player experience.”
Batman: Arkham City is out in October for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.