Arkham City

[Gotham Knight]

Oh!  As anyone seen these yet, featuring our beloved question king in the flesh?

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/711073/riddlers-role-in-batman-arkham-city-revealed-first-screens-and-details/





I kinda see some of John Glover's face in there. Nice little homage.

[Azrael]

The use of a song in the trailer (The Heavy - "Short change hero") was a nice touch - its mood reminds me of some songs heard in the Silent Hill games. The more I see of the sequel, the more it feels like the Arkham games are an alternative Batman movie franchise. Not a big fan of the comic's visual style, though.

[The Dark Knight]

As you would know, The Penguin has been announced.

This is their angle:

The way that Penguin has always been portrayed is as quite an aristocratic, well-spoken gentleman who's got these twisted delusions of grandeur...So we've made him a really horrible, nasty piece of work – but still with the delusion of grandeur. He dresses well, but in a poor taste, and we've made him this brutish, brutal guy but also key into collection fascination that hes had through out the years. Penguin's faction is much more about the collection that he has within his museum of all sorts of things but one of those things he collects is heavily artillery. So when you come up against his thugs in the street they are all going to have seriously heavy weapons and that develops throughout the game as well.

Sound familiar?

[johnnygobbs]

As you would know, The Penguin has been announced.

This is their angle:

The way that Penguin has always been portrayed is as quite an aristocratic, well-spoken gentleman who's got these twisted delusions of grandeur...So we've made him a really horrible, nasty piece of work – but still with the delusion of grandeur. He dresses well, but in a poor taste, and we've made him this brutish, brutal guy but also key into collection fascination that hes had through out the years. Penguin's faction is much more about the collection that he has within his museum of all sorts of things but one of those things he collects is heavily artillery. So when you come up against his thugs in the street they are all going to have seriously heavy weapons and that develops throughout the game as well.

Sound familiar?

Excellent stuff TDK.  Hopefully, all the Batman Returns haters will have seen that quote, especially the ones who keep criticising Batman Return's take on The Penguin.

[The Dark Knight]

Catwoman is a playable character in the game! Not a downloadable content exclusive, but in the game for everyone.

Look at this yummy trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_bYGcCzbkg&feature=player_embedded#at=70

Kotaku has a few more details on Catwoman

- Along with her whip and the bola, Catwoman uses a Caltrop in combat
- She can also crawl along ceilings
- Climbs building, etc with her claws
- While some of her missions are optional, she will have to be used on occasion seeing how her story is intertwined with Batman's
- The vault she infiltrates contains the most valuable items taken away from the inmates of Arkham City (it's safe to assume to teddy bear is Bane's)

Here's some information from the gameplay demo Gamespot got to try out:

- Batman goes to rooftop with many cats, where a context sensitive command "take a break Appears" this switches characters to Catwoman
- She controls differently then batman
- She has her own story, (Roughly 10% of the game)
- Her own combat moves (uses her whip, bolo, and unrevealed third item)
- Instead of gliding, she uses her whip + jumping and climbing through the environment
- Her own version of detective mode, thief mode (highlights objects of value)
- Mission shown had her stealing from a Vault
- Has to fight guards guarding a manhole, climbs vines, pickpockets (stealth based section)
- Allied with Poison Ivy

[Gotham Knight]

Wa CHA!!!


Crack that WHIP!

[The Dark Knight]

Wa CHA!!!


Crack that WHIP!

My sentiments entirely. I'm sure she's a nice person, but I'd love to see the back of her.

Whistling to macho thugs, handing a beatdown and kissing before the coup de grace. Very Catwoman.

I am very hungry to see Hathaway in costume.

[Azrael]

Good stuff

[Silver Nemesis]

Robin revealed.

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/117/1177294p1.html

[Azrael]

I never thought they could make me like Robin. Cool design, I like the haircut they gave him, reminds me a bit of Chris O Donnel in Forever. I assume his suit will have a darker colour palette compared to the comics.