Arkham Origins: The Prequel

[Stress Welker]

 

[ThaBronxBully]

I Dunno What To Think, I'll Just Hope For The Best

 

[StraxStrax]

Black Mask and The Penguin looking terrible

 

[TheSedd]

I mean I hope they got Rocksteady on A3 for next gen. It sounds like they understand what they will be compared to, so we shall see.

 

[OmegaK2099]

I thought it was going to take it back to arkham on some year one sh1t

 

[Swiggy]

That info in game informer got me a little more excited.

Rocksteady in the labs puttin together that top secret project? Justice League game

Or No Man's Land

Using the grapple like it's used in Just Cause 2 will be GODLY as Batman

Young dikk Grayson?

Batman the true GOD ready to get this money

 

[Tryna Makit]

Glad to see Slade getting so much mainstream love, long overdue

 

[ltheghost]

I'm not going to judge the game yet but no Rocksteady?....

 

[Optimus Prime]

Summery from the GameInformer stuff

Spoiler

Story

- Takes place on Christmas Eve
- Years before the previous two games
- Mob boss Black Mask will give a fortune for Batman’s head
- Top assassins and supervillains from the DC Comics universe are out to get Batman
- Cops on the take from the mob join the manhunt as well
- Batman needs to outsmart his enemies, find out why Black Mask wants him dead, and prove to what good cops that he’s on their side

General

- Porting Arkham City to Wii U let the team get familiar with Unreal 3
- Doing a prequel lets the team carve a unique territory if Rockstar were to move the Arkham timeline ahead down the road
- Rocksteady’s project is tightly under wraps
- Younger Batman also “gives us the opportunity to refresh things a bit”
- Combat system still in place
- Will have “new layers, new opportunities, and new tactics”
- New enemy types
- Batman not as finely honed as in the previous games
- Won’t control the Batwing directly
- Batwing will figure into story sequences and acts as a universe-appropriate form of fast travel
- Has the traditional predator mode in which players swing from perch to perch, glide kick, string guys upside-down, etc.
- New remote claw that is like the grappler in Just Cause 2
- Batman targets two objects and fires out a claw
- This hooks into th efirst object and launches another claw and rope to the second object
- Can then pull the two objects together
- Use this to knoick enemies together, slam heavy objects into foes, string objects or people under a perch
- Can string up an explosive barrel under a perch, lure enemies with a sonic batarang, then cut the rope with a normal batarang, dropping the explosive on their heads

Game demo

- Takes place about an hour into the game
- Batman is perched above Jezebel plaza
- Black Mask’s assassins have stirred up the local thugs
- No towering walls keeping villains in check and many citizens call Arkham City home since there isn’t a prison
- Amusement Mile hasn’t been flooded
- Batman is looking to find out why Black Mask is trying to kill him
- Batman decides to go to the party to track down Penguin, who hears about everything

Sounds like they just are going to use the same city map from AC with a few modifications (like Amusement Mile not being flooded and no walls). I hope they open up the city more and not have some invisible barrier. And if I'm able to fly the Batwing to other places, no reason why Arkham Asylum can't be in this game for some side missions of some sort. Robin also needs to be a playable character this time. We got Catwoman last time, Robin should get some love this time around...

 

[Black Hans]

So Batman games are the new Assassins Creed? Pimped out to multiple developers for frequent game releases.

Batman AA came out in 2009 and Batman AC came out in 2011. This game comes out in 2013. How is that like Assassin's Creed whose been dropping games every year since 2009?

 

[winb83]

Yeah because

11 games in 7 years (8-9 if you count the development time before the first)

=

4 games in 5 years (6-7 if you count the development time before the first)

no because they're handing another game in the series off to another developer and there's obvious hints of concurrent development of separate games in the series by different developers.

i guess you can't see the beginnings of a parallel to a series like say Call of Duty which started out being developed by Infinity Ward. the original game in that series and the next game by the same developer were two years apart then a second developer was added and now the games are released annually.

Assassins creed was 2007 the sequel was 2009 then they added other teams to the main team to speed up development of sequels.

 

[Anbesa]

That info in game informer got me a little more excited.

Rocksteady in the labs puttin together that top secret project? Justice League game

Or No Man's Land

Using the grapple like it's used in Just Cause 2 will be GODLY as Batman

Young dikk Grayson?

Batman the true GOD ready to get this money

would love that

 

[iamstr8fire]

 

[radio rahiem]

sounds dope so far...

 

[Ice Cold]

So Batman games are the new Assassins Creed? Pimped out to multiple developers for frequent game releases.

nikkas is ridiculous...
When did the last Arkham game drop? Wasn't it 2 years ago?
And 2 developers =/= being pimped out to every Tom dikk and Harry.
Now I'll just take a wait and see approach to this game.
Btw hulk ultimate destruction was a dope game at least an 8.5 it fathered crackdowns whole style!