9 Cancelled Superhero Video Games That Would've Made Millions

4. The Dark Knight

Considering Batman Begins received a game alongside the movie, all eyes were on Nolan's spectacular sequel to do the same.

As such, EA - who had already signed a deal with Warner Bros. and developers Pandemic - forced the devs to alter their standalone Batman game, and morph it into a Dark Knight tie-in. Ultimately, the ends couldn't meet as Pandemic had to throw away the majority of the work they had in the bag, and we'd not get another official Dark Knight game until the mobile-only Dark Knight Rises.

As for what Pandemic did put together, that footage cropped up online, although it consists almost entirely of environmental work showing that the team were set on nailing the look and feel of Gotham, before starting on Batman himself.

You might know that Arkham Asylum came from this kerfuffle too, as EA's part of the deal expired in 2008 along with the movie's release. Pandemic went bankrupt and Warner Bros. needed someone to carry on and release a Batman game regardless. Thus, the rights were given to what was then a totally no-name (and therefore very cheap to hire) studio named Rocksteady, who would go on to do the impossible and become an overnight sensation, birthing one of the best superhero games of all time in the process.