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Officer Doofy Come to me, human man Gold Member

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuD0Inb9Gs"]Official Batman: Arkham Knight Announce Trailer - "Father to Son" - YouTube[/ame]

Finale of the Arkham series and, I assume, a direct sequel to Arkham City. It's been confirmed that the Batmobile can be used in this!

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Great trailer, wish they waited abit longer though because origins suffered abit from feeling to similar to the first 2 games.

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Jamesy Bhoy 7 said: ↑

Great trailer, wish they waited abit longer though because origins suffered abit from feeling to similar to the first 2 games.
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Still to play Origins but this game is from Rocksteady who made the first two games. Confident,

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Looks good, glad Rocksteady are developing and not Warner Bros Montreal. I skipped buying Origins and just watched a Let's Play instead.

From the trailer it seems like there going with the story hinted at by the Scarecrow easter egg and Azrael side mission from Arkham City.

The only major concern I have about the game is that they end up brining back the Joker again, which would be terrible. Hopefully any sort of appearance is limited to a flashback or some sort of Scarecrow hallucination.

CVG have posted a bunch of information about the game and an interview (here's the link in case anyone would rather go straight to the article)

Speaking to the publication Rocksteady's Sefton Hill said the studio is aiming to take the fantasy of being Batman "one step further."

"The Arkham games have always been about providing that power fantasy, about being and feeling like Batman," he said, "we're going to take it further with the addition of the Batmobile and the bigger city."

Hill continued: "We've known it's what people want. When you're Batman you do think Batmobile, It's the one key thing we felt we really always wanted to do. And also that refreshes the whole experience, which I really think it does. What we're always trying to do is [make] every game feel like a new game rather than another episode of the last one".

Rocksteady is calling the third entry in the series the "explosive finale" for the late timeline Batman Arkham stories, seemingly leaving the door open for more games set earlier in Batman's career, much like Warner Bros. Montreal's Arkham Origins.

Rocksteady, however, want's to go out with a bang. "We kind of feel this is the natural end to the story," Hill said. "We really want to go out in style."

"We're excited to be developing the game for next-gen platforms, which has allowed us to bring to life the design elements that we envisioned from the beginning such as the Batmobile and how it augments Batman's abilities, to the fully detailed and realized Gotham City."
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General:

Rocksteady rethought the entire city structure to accommodate the Batmobile and street traffic

Arkham Knight is built on a "juiced up" version of the a custom Unreal Engine to make use of the Xbox One and PS4.

By not being cross-gen they've been able to push what the machines can do

Rocksteady describe Arkham Knight as "a real, genuine next-gen game"

There is no multiplayer in Arkham Knight. Rocksteady is focused on "making the best single-player experience it can" and doesn't feel it needs multiplayer.

"Arkham Knight" is also the name of a new arch-rival that was created from scratch by DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, known for his work on Green Lantern and Justice League.

The character will "really challenge Batman to go head to head with him in lots of different ways"

Kevin Conroy is going to be voicing Batman, Nolan North will be boicing Penguin, Wally Wingert will be doing Riddler, Tara Strong returns as Harley Quinn and Troy Baker will be Two-Face
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Gameplay:

Batman begins with his traditional Arkham City suite but gets a darker plated one later in the game. It adds new abilities and has continuity with the look of the Batmobile

Arkham Knight is the end "of the later timeline"

Game Informer says Rocksteady isn't saying what's next but "it's most definitely not Batman related"

The finale has been in mind since the development of Arkham City

Arkham Knight takes place in a new central zone of Gotham City, which is split into three island and is in total roughly five times the size of Arkham City

Rocksteady is emphasising the detail is more important than the scale of the world. They don't want to create the biggest open-world, they want to create the richest, densest and most vibrant

There is more space in between buildings to make the environments "traffic-friendly" and it becomes more fun to glide around

Game Informer says the level of details is some of the most impressive its seen

Arkham Knight takes place one year after Arkham City

Joker is dead and crime rate has declined

Batman continues to work on tech to fight crime, even with less of it around

He knows something isn't right, but needs to wait to see what happens

With the Joker gone, other key villains have spent time coming together to plan Batman's downfall

Each villain has his/her own mission in the city and it's intended to spread Batman thin

Scarecrow has threatened to blow up bombs in Gotham and cover it with a new version of his fear toxin, so the city is ordered to evac

Only criminals remain in the city; Gordon and his forces have been overwhelmed

In the demo there are between four and five times the number of thugs in Gotham City than in Arkham

Riots can feature up to 50 characters destroying things

Two-Face and Penguin are killing cops, because they can

Batman meets with Gordon and gives him tech to stay in contact

All of the game's cutscenes take place in-engine, there are no pre-rendered cinematics. They are seamlessly integrated.

Rocksteady is trying to take the level of in-game detail to the pre-rendered level

Albert Feliu, lead character artist, says the polygon count on one character in Arkham Knight is as big as the count of the whole Arkham Asylum environment

The detail in Gordon's face shows his age and it wrinkles as he talks

Apex cloth physics are being used on Batman's cape and Gordon's trench coat so they react properly to wind and movement

Although Jim Gordon believes she's gone, his daughter Barbara, a.k.a. Oracle is in the city and helping Batman

Oracle is a "strong character" and is a character Batman physically meets as opposed to just a voice he hears

She knows Batman's identity and is used to give him a human side

Arkhamverse Barbara lines up with comic continuity in that she was paralysed by the Joker

Batman knows Barbara is in the city and Jim Gordon believes she is not, the deception may become a plot point

A new streamlined control option is used to tell batman to sprint to the nearest ledge and dive straight down

Grapnel Gun now has a Mark 2 boost upgrade and slingshots Batman

Line launcher returns to give Batman perch points and ziplines can be created instantly while flying around

All quickfire gadgets, such as Batarangs, can be used in mid-air

The classic counter system also returns. Rocksteady doesn't want to overcomplicate it as it thinks the strength is in the simplicity

However, it has enhanced it somewhat with new features

Normal goons can now do the charge and tackle only the larger enemies could in previous games

A well timed backflip and Batarang can be used to instantly KO enemies doing a charge

Batman now has quick ground strikes but full ground takedowns are still available, though they take longer to execute

Batman can glide through glass surfaces

He has throw counters that grabs enemies and launches them into another for double damage

Hazards in the environment such as power generators can be mixed into combat

Riddler appears in the demo to put the Batmobile to the test in a three-lap time trial through the underground tunnels of Gotham, but to the only way to make it through is to use a special radar pulse that alters parts of the track

Players click the left stick to move obstacles while driving at high speeds and the course gets difficult with every lap

Riddler has a plan for Batman and the city too, beyond testing his skills

Batman still has detective vision

He can access grates from further away, when in range a button prompt appears and he'll roll forward to get under it

From a grate it's possible to initiate multiple takedowns, as one enemy is grabbed the action slows and the camera can be pointed in the direction of another enemy.

"Fear Takedowns" can be used on groups of three enemies as long as they're close together and none of them spot Batman

The demo ends with a mysterious villain describes as a "militaristic Batman" with what looks like an "Arkham A" on his chest appears to land a jump kick on Batman and stomp him. He points a gun at Batman and the screen fades to black as the shot is fired.
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The Batmobile:

Batmobile is designed to be "the best car in any game ever", it takes up around 160mb of memory in game and will just about fit in an Xbox 360 (if that was the whole game). There are hundreds of thousands of polygons, as well as textures and shaders used on it

Batmobile is the only car Batman has access to in the game

It zooms to your location at the touch of the button

It can do burnouts, jumps, boosts and "rotate in a circle at a full stop to get you pointed in the right direction

It is bulletproof and can smash through barricades, trees and building corners

Enemies will try and jump out of its way

Driving gameplay is balanced with out-of-car gameplay so players don't just stay in it all the time

While Batmobile has speed and damage Batman has a better freedom of movement and gadgets,

Players can swap between the two based on what the job requires

Batmobile can missile lock and fire an immobilizer at enemy vehicles

Batmobile is designed to segue perfectly with Batman and his navigational skills

When within range of a key point Batman can eject out of the Batmobile and launch himself into a fast glide
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Moustache, Mar 4, 2014

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Cheers for that mate. Lots of good info there.

Got a good feeling about this game.

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YES!

Looks great!

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One of the best game trailers ever!!

Cannot wait for this!!

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Imagine this will be out on PS3 as well? Looks great. I've only completed the first game so far.

When is this due out, don't see no date?

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Sonny7 said: ↑

Imagine this will be out on PS3 as well? Looks great. I've only completed the first game so far.

When is this due out, don't see no date?
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No it's only on the PS4, One and PC. Apparently Rocksteady felt that they would have to compromise parts of the game if it was cross-gen and decided on focusing on the new consoles plus PC.

Haven't seen a release date mentioned on anywhere except the Wikipedia, which is saying the 14th October. Probably a guess by someone, but I'm pretty sure all the other Arkham games (except Asylum) were released in October so it'll probably be around about that date.

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No it's only on the PS4, One and PC. Apparently Rocksteady felt that they would have to compromise parts of the game if it was cross-gen and decided on focusing on the new consoles plus PC.

Haven't seen a release date mentioned on anywhere except the Wikipedia, which is saying the 14th October. Probably a guess by someone, but I'm pretty sure all the other Arkham games (except Asylum) were released in October so it'll probably be around about that date.
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That's utter baws. A hope the company Rocksteady go right down the * hole

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Sonny7 said: ↑

That's utter baws. A hope the company Rocksteady go right down the * hole
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Quite pish though. Looking forward to playing the other two, what was the best game out the trilogy so far?

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Sonny7 said: ↑

Quite pish though. Looking forward to playing the other two, what was the best game out the trilogy so far?
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Arkham city was the best of the two, but that takes nothing away from Arkham Asylum. You should play them in order. You'll be able to pick up Arkham Asylum for peanuts now.

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Arkham city was the best of the two, but that takes nothing away from Arkham Asylum. You should play them in order. You'll be able to pick up Arkham Asylum for peanuts now.
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I completed Arkham Asylum couple weeks back, was a good game. Will get City then Origins.

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I completed Arkham Asylum couple weeks back, was a good game. Will get City then Origins.
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Origins is not supposed to be as good. Was farmed out to another developer.

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Update to the announcement: there will be downloadable skins for the Batmobile. So far only one announced but you would imagine more. Would love it if there was a Animated Series Batmobile skin!!

Gonna need to start saving for my next gen console now!!

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Origins wasn't necessarily bad as much as it wasn't an improvement on City.

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Origins wasn't the best, the fact that I played the 3 games within a month of each other probably didn't help but I got to the point where I was just dying to complete Origins and didn't really care for the story, was a few weak points in the plot, felt quite repetitive, there is absolutely no need to fight Bane multiple times

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There's a new trailer showing off some gameplay (Apologies for the link, I can't get video's to embed anymore).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q4U_QRcg84

Here's a few images from the trailer and elsewhere.
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8 months late but finally got my hands on it. I cannot wait to get started, I only get to play it for a day though as I go away working for a week tomorrow

They tried selling me a season pass in game for £32. New content every month for 6 months supposedly. But new content will more than likely be a few batman costumes for the first couple of months at least so didn't think it was worth it.

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