It’s truly a great feeling to have a game studio that has completely and utterly succeeded in creating an amazing Batman gaming experience. With Rocksteady’s Arkham series, they captured the very essence of Batman and thrust him into the digital world at full force.
On August 25, 2009 Arkham Asylum lept into action with a fairly linear story that utilized the characterstics of what made Batman, well, Batman. Elements of stealth lingered throughout the game, players engaged in fluid and brutal combat, and Batman faced off against a wide array of villains.
Gamers and Bat-fans everywhere were widely impressed.
After Arkham Asylum everyone knew that a sequel would be coming, it had to be. The success of Arkham Asylum defined Rocksteady studios as one of the very few developers to nail a comic book inspired video game. The real question was whether or not they could ever follow up on such an astounding success.
When Batman lept from the shadows again on October 18, 2011 with Batman: Arkham City…
Rocksteady stunned critics and gamers alike for the second time. The studio accomplished what seemed to be the impossible. They watched as their inspiration and drive found Bruce Wayne breaking the cuffs off, and escaping into a fully realized open world.
Arkham City now became the definitive Batman game.
With such an incredible accomplishment, gamers have been left to ponder a wide range of questions. The biggest one of all would have to be how can they possibly top Arkham City?
Rocksteady recently released Harley Quinn’s Revenge which picked up immediately after the events of Arkham City. The DLC extended the storyline by telling what becomes of Harley, and allowed gamers to play as Robin within the story. It was a great addition that easily calmed the hunger of eager fans for maybe three hours, but what’s the next step?
How can they evolve the franchise into the next level of potential that we all know Rocksteady is capable of delivering?
We’ve decided to do just that by taking a look at ways in which the team can evolve their gameplay and even look at brand new mechanics that could be implemented. It’s what we would do, and what we hope Rocksteady does. With any luck we might just offer up some great ideas for the team, and perhaps spark a discussion on one of our favorite video games of all time.
Just, please don’t use a coin to determine our success. Seriously, don’t flip a coin.
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Excellent points! I agree particularly with the third page. I know that Batman is one of the greatest hand-to-hand fighters in the DC Universe, but at the same time, the atmosphere of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City both seem like the kind of story where it’s okay and expected that Batman takes a few hits. The combat system in Arkham City doesn’t match this, though – it has somewhat too much of a choreographed feel for me, and sometimes feels like you’re just punching through people rather than that you’re in an actual fight. For me, Assassin’s Creed has more of the “in a fight” feeling, but it’s held back by its awkward control system; my ideal Arkham 3 would have Arkham Asylum’s elegance of control and use and a weight and visceral feel more like Assassin’s Creed (if suhc a thing is possible!).
Perfect ideas! I would love to play as killer crock! And that hidden puddle in the muesum shows us its going to be a city
I absolutley love Arkham City. I’ve been playing it for all these months. I’ve completed all (but the very hardest) challenges and collected all the collectibles. I think what would make the next game great (if they make one) would be a much more extended after story experience. Sure, in Arkham City you can go after the side missions, but what if there were more than just 15? What if there were a hundred little missions you could have within and after the game? That’s where Gotham comes in, in your ideas. Just reading that got me excited, talking to Gordon, going to the Bat-cave, it’s all just really cool.
Great points but I was hoping for one more, you mentioned the batcave in your second point about being a detective.
I would love to have a base, somewhere where you can store items or get intel from, Alfred could be there or anything your mission requires *cough BATMOBILE cough*
I fully support the massive improvement of Detective work and the interrogration which is more in line with the lore of Batman. Perhaps it can be like the gameplay for LA Noire or Heavy rain, where batman has to make choices, analyzes clues he has collected and derives the conclusions, the number of clues he collected will impact the missions and storyline and perhaps the ending? The interogation should be also varied and i thought during critical strikes Batman should be able to shatter masks or equipments with his combos to really show an empowerment of critical strke mode
FUUUUCCCKKKK I LOVE THE IDEA OF PLAYING IN GOTHAM CITY! THAT WOULD BE SICK! AND AGREED WE NEED A BATMOBILE. Im actually hoping game play would be more free roam. just like Marvels Spiderman games. but more of a “arkham-ee” feeling to it.
I completely agree that you should be able to play as the villans and i also think they should totally base the next game around batman begins and scarecrow, because i loved arkham asylum. Also another thing that would be completely awesome would be free roam of gotham, you know, beating up robbers, saving victims, stopping brawls and taking down crims. I’m just overall psyched for the next game. I hope Rocksteady doesn’t mess it up, but there’s a thin chance of that happening.
Please do not go for this old Batman Silver Age style game, yes, you have other Super Heroes in it, but us fans were looking forward going into Gotham, in Arkham CIty, you can almost taste Gotham CIty and it would have been amazing to explore it,I was looking forward to driving the a bat mobile, jet, bike etc and a proper batcave, there are still plenty of villains out there to fight, we could even play one, Arkam is not finished yet! Bring us the true sequel!
i think those are great points. i think the next game should include some jason todd action. either as robin or red hood. they hint at him a lot throughout both arkham games such as in arkham asylum when harley mention that batman needs a new sidekick or in the arkham city riddlers revenge challenges when joker keeps asking tim(the third robin/ the one in the game)avent i killed you alredy? the picture in front of the safe during the catwoman episode also looks very similar to the scene where batman carries out jasons body. also the hidden radio messages in arkham city saying you will pay for what you have done also promote the idea of jason being in the game. jason blames batman for not saving him and then letting the joker get away with his murder. i would love to use red hood as a playable character in arkham which can consist of bothering black mask or harley and even helping batman. i think this would be a cool side mission in the next game trying to find red hood. im sorry im obsessed with him but they definetly hint at him a lot
I think they could totally have something in the vein of Agent Jaden’s tools from Heavy Rain for Batman’s detective work, they already had some great things in Arkham City. I’m sure they could come up with some really cool tools for the next one.
What about a wider range of villains too like man bat or some from the 60s like egghead maybe some teaming up with the villains reply great ideas completely agree
1. They should use the Court of Owls arc from The New 52′s Batman for Gotham City’s main (or one of the multiple) plot.
2. Playable characters-Batman, Nightwing, Robin (Damien Wayne), Red Hood (Jason Todd), Red Robin, and Batgirl.
3. Have a couple playable missions where you have the option to be their alter-egos (ex. searching the police station to find certain clues or evidence to analyze or determine the next crime would be. Using Barbara Gordon (visiting Commissioner Gordon and “borrowing” evidence, making sure he doesn’t catch you), or Batgirl (breaking and entering at night to get the evidence, having to sneak past, immobilize, and escape from officers on duty). Other characters would have a couple missions like that too.
4. Option to partner up with a player online for a certain mission (like crossing paths in Resident Evil 6), or just decide to do it solo.
My personal opinion would be to make a completely new game like instead of (batman Arkham asylum) or Arkham City what about the dark knight like make the game more like the christopher nolans trilogy like introducing bane the way he looks in the movie make him look like that in the game make batman have the same batsuit the batmobile the batbike the bat make the joker the same in the game like in the film similar story line.And it would be amazing if the characters in the game spoke like the ones in the movie get bruce waynes best freind involved rachel.Anyone agree????????????
My personal opinion would be that i think rocksteady should instead of arkham asylum or arkham city , make the Dark Knight.like have the same story line as christopher nolans trilogy by introducing villians like bane,joker,catwomen involve alfred,rachel a bit more i already know they characters are in arkham asylum and arkham city i mean make them look the same as they do in the trilogy like for instince make bane like what he looks like in the dark knight rises not this big huge thing make him more realistic.Have them speak the same like what they do in the movies the game would be so much better like batman should have the exact same batsuit in the game like in the movie the same batmobile,batbike the bat and the characters should have the same fighting style aswell then you would have yourself a 10/10 game