First Look at The Joker and More in BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS
Yesterday, we brought you an incredibly rad 5-minute trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins, which showcased an action-packed fight between Batman and Deathstroke. Today, we bring you a few new screenshots from the game, one of which features our first look at The Joker. Unfortunately, he's no longer voiced by Mark Hamill. Kevin Conroy won't be back either, but he's been working on the next Arkham game being developed.
The images come from Hero Complex, and there were a couple other new details revealed about the game. Senior producer on the game, Ben Mattes, talked to them about the game explaining that...
...they follow the same core mechanics. You digitally re-create the crime scene, you identify the clues, you scan in the clues, which allows your cowl and bat computer to digitally recreate the events as they took place. You scrub through those events in order to find the key piece of information, in which you have to do that fast-forwarding and rewinding in order to understand how a piece of evidence went from one place to another. Then you need to go over there to scan the next piece of evidence in. It’s not just follow the bread crumbs.
He then reveals that even though Origins takes place several years before the previous Arkham games, there's a five year span between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. That leaves plenty of room to explore in the future.
There’s five years between ‘Arkham Origins’ and ‘Arkham Asylum,'There’s a long arc where we can explore why this gadget doesn’t exist here or there. We feel that was the right choice. We’re ensuring players have the empowering Batman game play they’re looking for with lots of opportunities to solve those narrative challenges along the way.
Here are more details on the story:
The premise that we set up we believe is simple to understand and very accessible. Black Mask has hired the eight most deadly assassins to kill Batman on Christmas Eve. Everyone gets that. Everyone gets the pressure that puts on you, the player, to survive. But this formative night in Batman’s career becomes so much more than just the assassins. There are other members of the rogue’s gallery who are taking advantage of this opportunity and putting their own nefarious actions into place.
Like the other games, this one is sure to be a blast to play. Make sure to head on over to Hero Complex to read the rest of the interview. There's some other stuff there that you might find interesting.
