Today, after months and months of anticipation, WB Games Montreal revealed a brand new Batman game titled Batman: Gotham Knights for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. And to accompany the announcement, the developer and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have revealed the game’s debut trailer, providing our first have a look at a model new model of the Defender of Gotham. The trailer additionally reveals the game will launch someday in 2021.
“Batman is useless. It is now as much as the Batman Family – Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin – to guard Gotham City, carry hope to its residents, self-discipline to its cops, and concern to its criminals,” reads an official pitch of the game. “You should evolve into the brand new Dark Knight and save Gotham from chaos. Your legacy begins now. Step into the Knight.”
As we already knew, WB Games Montreal can be taking the reigns of Batman, a personality it has some familiarity with, however not as a lot as Rocksteady, the crew behind the Batman: Arkham trilogy. However, whereas Rocksteady is the crew behind a lot of the current Batman games, WB Games Montreal did develop Batman: Arkham Origins, the successor to Batman: Arkham City that hit again in 2013. It’s extensively thought of the least spectacular entry within the four-game collection, which might be why, a minimum of partially, Rocksteady seemingly pretends it would not exist when it talks in regards to the Batman: Arkham collection.
Before delivery Batman: Arkham Origins in 2013, WB Games Montreal hadn’t actually accomplished something of observe. And since then, it hasn’t accomplished a lot both. In 2014 it shipped LEGO Legends of Chima Online, after which a yr later in 2015, it launched Batgirl: A Matter of Family, DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight. In different phrases, we’ve not seen or heard a lot from the studio because it launched Batman: Arkham Origins. It’s been seven years because it shipped a game correct, and 6 years because it shipped something in any respect.
That mentioned, here is what’s been engaged on, or a minimum of half of what it has been engaged on. We know the developer can be engaged on a second DC Comics game, however, for the second, it is unclear what this could possibly be or once we will hear extra about this thriller undertaking. Presumably, it isn’t one other Batman game, that means Warner Bros. might lastly be giving another DC characters a bit little bit of video game highlight.
The final time WB Games Montreal shipped a Batman game, Batman: Arkham was the one high quality superhero collection in video games. Now, there’s Marvel’s Spider-Man, and Marvel’s Avengers appears to be like poised to impress later this yr as properly. In different phrases, the bar has been raised and there is extra competitors, that means extra stress to ship an unbelievable Batman expertise.
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