Batman: Arkham Knight - 15 Best Rumours From 2014 You Need To Know

8. Fear Grenades

Another rumour that did the rounds this year was that the excellent Shadow of Mordor was initially conceptualised as a Batman game, with its now-signature Nemesis system transferring across to you deploying Joker gas on insolent goons to establish your army and retake Gotham. Now that is one awesome idea, and if this rumour is true then Rocksteady must have thought so too, giving you access to a Batman-made version of Scarecrow's toxin that instead of sending its victims completely mad, instead incapacitates them and sets them up for a chain-takedown. Some of the best parts of the Arkham titles are when you're simply skulking around in the shadows setting off tripwires and other environmental objects to scare the living daylights out the thugs in the room with you, and if deploying a handful of cannisters of this stuff makes them even more delirious, it's going to make for some brilliant challenge rooms and a fun boost to gameplay in general.