Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight Arrives This Year

Origins had some neat story ideas, but man! was it buggy! When I think of arkham asylum, I think of a really tight and well designed experience. Origins was anything but that, haphazard and unbalanced.

I'll take some convincing to pick this one up.

Hey, hey you guys. Pre-order now, hey, DLC you guys, what no gameplay? Dosn't matter, guys dlc get it now.

Judging by the opening dialogue and "facing your fears" I'm guessing we've got Scarecrow at the helm? Of course, there's probably another big bad pulling the strings above him.

I would say there'd be a turf war now that Arkham City is no longer a thing, but clearly Two-Face, Harley & Penguin are working along JUUUUUUUST fine. And we've already had Ra's try to destroy Gotham once, so I'm going to guess he's out.

Although Hush or Azrael would make sense since they hinted at them in the last game and this trailer implies preserving the Wayne/Batman name and what it means to Gotham.

Gross. No you don't. Save your money long term and buy a PC

Pretty fancy movie there. I don't see a video game. Let me know when video game exists.

Also, I will accept two Mobiles Bat:

I do not acknowledge that new thing as a bat's mobile.

wow, I expected more "eww, another one of those!" comments ... good on you GB community :)

@rasmoss: Didn't we already get that in Arkham City DLC: Harley Quinn's Revenge ;)

@charzar81: Rumor is Hush.

Looks amazing, I like we are really starting to see some next gen games now.

BATMAN BATMAN BATMAN DOT COM

Harley looks super cute. Normally I wouldn't have a reaction but awwwwwww

Oh my god... AWESOME news!

origin was ok for me nothing great but didn't hate it but Rocksteady are the masters.

eww, another one of those!

Thomas didn't want to leave a cent to his wife, eh? That's cold.

@herbiebug said:

Pretty fancy movie there. I don't see a video game. Let me know when video game exists.

Also, I will accept two Mobiles Bat:

I do not acknowledge that new thing as a bat's mobile.

Agreedo.

Looks like i need a new graphics card for this game!

Maybe they will learn not to outsource their franchise to crap developers when this sells better than the last game.

Pretty sweet bat tech

This is the least interesting game Rocksteady could've made. I thought they were making a Silver Age game or at least a new Metroid Prime or new IP. Allow me to dominate the conversation by continually making assertions that this is a waste of Rocksteady's time and asking whether we really needed a 3rd or 4th Arkham Asylum Game. Imagine when it comes up if that's what people say they get their hands on it and that even those who find it exceptional temper their praise by saying the game is decidedly uninteresting compared to the games they could've made. Wouldn't that suck and be gross? Well maybe it would be if this was the second in the last 5 years instead of the 4th in the last 5 years. Okay point made joke over.

Seriously though I really would've liked something new in art style, tone, look and was seriously expecting something Silver Age. Jokes aside this is disappointing.

Another evacuated city? Same villain designs? Same look?

I'm out. I didn't even consider getting Origins and by the end of City I'd had enough. I loved Asylum, but City just wasn't that good a game. Hardly anyone noticed because you got ot run around as Batman. Very disappointed Rocksteady have apparently gone so safe. A city with people in it was a challenge they should have risen to instead of concoting yet another idiotic story excuse.

And the end of the video pimping pre-order crap. Brilliant. Nope.

Anybody else stop after Arkham Asylum like me? I think Asylum is an amazing game but didn't like Arkham City so much after playing a decent amount of it. I guess it's because I don't care about Batman at all and that great combat can only carry me so far.

@joshwent: To be fair, Origins wasn't a Rocksteady game. A lot of people wrote off that game because it wasn't as such. People were hesitant about a new Batman game being developed by somebody else and what they got was a Batman game that felt different from Asylum or City. Switching developers does that to games.

YEAH, BATMAN!

I like these games the most.

How is Batman able to produce force to alter the arc of his jump mid-air? Is Batman a wizard or a monk?

Origins was mediocre, but still enjoyable. Really looking forward to see what changes to the formula Rocksteady has planned.

A Batman ready to fuck some shit up.

Thank you for the laughs. Swell looking CGI trailer, indeed. So good, that I had to visit Blur's site, since someone mentioned them. Didn't know they made that awesome Overstrike Fuse one too!

Anyway, despite being a CGI trailer, I feel like I can still count on Rocksteady delivering some top-notch quality with this game as well.

I'm ready for more Batman. I will buy it but honestly, the same "oh my parents died" Batman fighting the same villains plus using the Batmobile doesn't excite me all that much. Going to need more to get me to preorder.

Videogames, huh. What a way to deflate what is otherwise a fantastic teaser trailer.

What does, "Play as Harley Quinn" even mean without any shred of context.

I'll be honest, I'm more than a little disappointed Rocksteady is still making Batman games. I was really hoping they'd do something new in the DC Universe, especially with other developers having already taken up the Arkham series.

I thought for a second that was the 60's tv Batmobile that had a mans head inserted through glass into it.

I think it's cool that they're going full next/current gen on this game. That's a very cool Batman video, but I'm so tired of non-gameplay trailers. Origins had a lot of good things going for it, it's a shame it was such a broken mess at launch.

I really hoped we'd get that rumored silver-age take on Batman, not just Rocksteady making their own prequel.

@atary77: I think that they consider Arkham to be the brand at this point.

I have completely enjoyed every arkham game up to this point(yes, I loved origins) and I'm super excited for this one.

I am effin down for some next generation Batman. I played through both of the original Rocksteady Batmenses last fall. I don't usually replay games anymore, but those two kept me entertained for another run.

@draxyle said:

Likely it's more challenge maps which let you play as Harley. Maybe they'll have some story side to it like with Catwoman in City.

Cautiously optimistic about this and if Rocksteady's back i guess we can assume this game will have some more polish to it.

@taxes: we're both old.

I genuinely loved Arkham Origins, almost as much as City or Asylum. The story I thought was the best of out the three games by a mile, and I personally didn't encounter any bugs.

The fact that Thomas Wayne's will doesn't make sense unless he knew he was going to die while Bruce was young bothers me way more than it should. What run of the mill will and testimony says shit like "my only regret is I won't see you become a great man"? Doesn't make any sense!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, that looked pretty.

@oni said:

Ah.. I see what you did there. Clever. =)

I agree with this sentiment.

He juiced those two-face grunts.

I could be on board with next gen Batman. Skipped Origins but this could work well, especially going back to Rocksteady. It will continue to be weird having these annualized series cranking out games, such that quality can fluctuate wildly between them. Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, now Arkham.

Though beyond the novelty of next gen, it's going to be hard to be happy about Rocksteady continuing with Arkham after this, not to look too far ahead.

Darkham Knight.

@shortbreadtom In some comics it's alluded to that Thomas Wayne had connections to the mafia, and threats from the other business forces in Gotham that saw him as an obstacle, so him worrying about being killed isn't unwarranted. Also, you can change your will at any time, so it's conceivable that Thomas wrote that sentimental bit intentionally when Bruce was young with all hopes of later changing it if he survived to truly see his son grow up.

But of course, you're right, and it's probably just a dumb oversight by the writers.

Rocksteady didn't make Origins, they made that tight well designed one.