NEWS
by Mark Barley
Rocksteady: Batman Arkham Series To Continue After "Arkham City"
If you were worried that the Dark Knight's adventures through Gotham city were done after the release of Batman: Arkham City, worry no more. Rocksteady have confirmed that the "Batman Arkham" series will continue after "Arkham City".
Rocksteady's Dax Ginn, in a recent interview with CVG, talked about continuing the franchise.
“I think as long as we’re still enjoying it and as long as we feel we can contribute to the Batman universe… That’s how it feels. There’s some amazing stuff going on with Batman all around the world at the moment and we feel as though we’re making our own little contribution in the form of the Arkham-verse.”
Ginn was quick to point out that Rocksteady does not own any rights to the Bats, instead it's up to Warner Bros. to continue with the Batman titles. “There’s no other character that’s as awesome as Batman who’s got such an incredible rogues gallery, who’s got such and amazing structure for gameplay,” he explained. “All it takes is to give a guy an assault rifle and it changes the entire nature of combat.
“So you can put Batman up against 30 thugs in the street and just cane them and feel like a total don but as soon as one of them’s got a shotgun you have to rethink what you do. That’s really rare for a superhero and we really love using the facets of his personality to create gameplay out of that.
“I feel like we’re in a real sweet spot with the games that we’re making, the opportunities that we have so I don’t really want that to change.”
Batman: Arkham City is out later this month on October 18 in the US and October 21 in the UK for the PlayStation and Xbox 360.
“So you can put Batman up against 30 thugs in the street and just cane them and feel like a total don but as soon as one of them’s got a shotgun you have to rethink what you do. That’s really rare for a superhero and we really love using the facets of his personality to create gameplay out of that.
“I feel like we’re in a real sweet spot with the games that we’re making, the opportunities that we have so I don’t really want that to change.”