Let me be clear, right off the bat (sorry); we have no idea who leaked this gamut of screenshots supposedly from
Batman: Arkham City, the follow-up to
Rocksteady’s terrific
Arkham Asylum. The screenshots were first spotted on an anonymous Flickr account, where they found their way to
NeoGAF and, surprisingly enough, our own Arkham City wiki page. Several hours later, the screenshots were taken down from the anonymous account, replaced with a single picture of
The Joker.
The point is, these screenshots were not released through what we would call “official channels.” There is every possibility that these pictures featuring Batman, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, The Joker, and Catwoman are an elaborate fake.
But they’re probably not.
And thank goodness for that, because these screenshots look ill. I’ve posted the whole gallery at the end of the article, but here are the most interesting shots of the bunch, complete with a pithy caption.

By taking Arkham off the island, it looks like we're going to see an even wilder breed of Joker street punk. Car doors hurt!

Man, that's a really good messed-up face.

What if Arkham City is a larger open world environment than Arkham Island? An even more vertical place for Batman to climb up and jump down could be awesome.

Bow-Chika-Meow-Meow.
What do you folks think? What's your favorite part of these new screens? And what do you think they suggest about the kind of game Batman: Arkham City could be?
They said they toned it down a lot. The screen shots show that its not as "Intense" as the first game.
all i want is more batman action with more vertical levels and batmobile/bat-jet thing
I've started reading Batman comics recently, and playing through Arkham Asylum again gave me chills
Arkham City is looking great, like the fact that Catwoman and Two-Face are gonna be in it
The new Harley Quinn design looks great too
You haven't seen a real dominatrix have you?