First Look at the Penguin in BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY
Here is our first real look at the Penguin from the highly anticipated upcoming game, Batman: Arkham City. The images comes from a UK edition of PS3 Magazine,and it was picked up by the folks over at IGN that posted some details about the character as well from an interview with Rocksteady's Dax Ginn saying, "while Penguin retains the squat silhouette of Oswald Cobblepot he's a nastier piece of work." I'm very excited about this game and I look forward to playing this year at E3 2011.
Here are some of the details revealed on the Arkham City version of the Penguin, and I really like what they did with him.
It's a noticeable difference, with Penguin's effete cigarette holder replaced by a fat cigar and the monocle by a cracked bottle-end, which Ginn claims is "too dangerous to remove - but he likes it". He also appears to have some kind of voicebox surgically inserted into his throat - could this be a subtle anti-smoking message from Rocksteady?!
Whatever, the biggest and potentially most controversial difference is the portrayal of the Penguin as a cockney geezer. Held up within the Gotham City's Natural History Museum, the Penguin introduces himself to Batman "as something of a collector," in a brash London accent, which is a far cry from previous incarnations of Oswald Cobblepot we've seen.
The article also revealed some other interesting tweaks in Arkham City's gameplay. For starters, Batman will be able to perform multiple parries; in the first game thugs would obligingly attack Batman one-by-one instead of piling in, but in Arkham City the Dark Knight can parry up to three attacks at once.
Arkham Asylum's powerful Detective Mode will be restricted in the sequel too, so it can't be exploited in the same way as in the original. "If you turn it on," says Ginn, "you see the pertinent things, but other than that there's little detail, so there's no great advantage from just playing in detective mode."
Also, as befitting the world's greatest detective, Arkham City will feature more demanding puzzles for The Dark Knight to solve, rather than a series of trails for him to follow.
Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players soaring into Arkham City, the new maximum security "home" for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds. Set inside the heavily fortified walls of a sprawling district in the heart of Gotham City, this highly anticipated sequel introduces a brand-new story that draws together a new all-star cast of classic characters and murderous villains from the Batman universe, as well as a vast range of new and enhanced gameplay features to deliver the ultimate experience as the Dark Knight.
Here's a previously released image:
