10 Mind-Blowing "What If?" Video Game Scenarios That Almost Happened

7. The Dark Knight Tie-In Game Gets Made Instead Of Rocksteady's Arkham Series

This is a pretty horrifying concept to realise, certainly for Bat-fans, but one that also came dangerously close to happening.

With a movie tie-in to Batman Begins done, dusted and even praised by outlets and audiences alike, Warner Bros. were keen to replicate its success for the then upcoming Christopher Nolan sequel (a film which needs no introduction). Pandemic were the team brought in to do Nolan's world justice and, not for the first time, they found themselves in choppy territory.

The company's Aussie studio took the reigns this time, with Gary Oldman himself having hyped up the effort and detail that the group had put into perfecting Batman's gliding. The game was meant to be an open-world Bat-title in the Spider-Man 2 vein, but its scope ultimately went on to become its undoing.

Pandemic missed the film's release date (both of them), and the title was canned shortly thereafter. This led Warner Bros. to try a different angle with the Caped Crusader, and enlist a then unknown studio, called Rocksteady, to bring it into existence.

We all know what followed: the London devs created Batman: Arkham and proceeded to fundamentally rewrite the book on superhero video games and the action-adventure genre too. Had Pandemic succeeded in their thankless tie-in task however, it never would've been, and fans would've probably had to settle for Batman: Martha! Simulator 2017 come Dawn of Justice's release last year.