Who needs a videogame based on a movie? Game Informer has just revealed that its next issue will blow the lid off the previously unannounced Eidos-published title, Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Developed by Rocksteady Studios (whose only known title is the 2006 PlayStation 2 and Xbox game, Urban Chaos: Riot Response), Arkham Asylum is a entirely original title that will explore the halls of Gotham's infamous nut-house for the criminally insane. The story involves a routine prison transfer going awry, and has the Caped Crusader going head-to-head with his nastiest foes.
The game is said to have a dark, gritty feel similar to 2K Boston's BioShock, and is being penned by Paul Dini, whose previous work includes Batman: The Animated Series. No specific platforms have yet to be mentioned. More information can be found in the upcoming issue of Game Informer, which has yet to hit newsstands, but will likely be scanned and posted in its entirety on NeoGAF two weeks before it even goes to print.
Based on the artwork alone, we're excited, but that could just be Dark Knight-fever kicking in. So, who's got high hopes for this one?
[Update: Rocksteady Studios has some sort of Batman-related counter up on their official Web site. It's a big number, and it's counting down relatively fast -- anyone care to do some math? -- Thanks, Action-Bastard!]
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"he game is said to have a dark, gritty feel.." SHOCKING!
Paul Dini? Yes please.
Did you say high hopes? They're off the page.
Paul Dini, eh? Anyone involved with Batman: TAS knows what they're doing, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Now, normally I'm not a praying milkshake, but if you're up there, please, please make this game good superman.
Um I just had a giant nerdgasm. Thanks, Nick. :P
Bioshock + Batman: The Animated Series = schwing!
Huzzah! Something a lot of fans always to see happen.
Dini is a talented fellow, definitely a sign it will be quite promising.
The Joker.
Straitjackets.
Those Other Freaks.
OH MY!!
But I would like it to be more like Dead Space is turning out.
That would be effing amazing.
My penis is now hard.
So are Eidos and Pandemic developing two totally different Batman games at the same time, or has Pandemic's been officially canned?
@SuitcoatAvenger:
I don't think the Pandemic game officially exists. :D
Ahem...
OK, here's where I become useful. My cousin works for Rocksteady. It's a PS3 exclusive.
The fact that Paul Dini is working on this makes me excited
Oooooh. I don't know about the developer or setting the ENTIRE game in Arkham (which is what it sounds like) but Paul Dini officially gets me excited. Must know more!!
Somehow I DOUBT this will be an exclusive.
I doubt it too, all I know is I've been told to keep my eys on Tokyo.
lol @ dark and gritty.
Sound a bloody cool game though... can't wait to find out more about it. I wonder if the Bioshock comments means an Art Deco edge, judging by the gates from the Batman cover. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into small details...
just gie me mark hamill doing the jokers voice and ill buy it
Well, the second column from right is obviously seconds, so...math!
681.423 million+ seconds => 11,357,050 minutes => 189,284.167 hours => 7,886.84 days => 21.6 years
In other words, by the time that countdown hits zero, I will be over twice my current age. Scary.
riot response is one of the best games on ps2 so i have high expectations and i think they'll be filled.
also, not related, but who freaking won the Devil May Cry contest?
Samit, you just blew my mind. I don't know what you're talking about. But you did it.
Shouldn't you be playing Madden or something??? You ever play FIFA?
...So effectively, we'll be playing a bastardization of Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. I expect LAYERS UPON LAYERS OF MESSAGES AND METAPHORS!
This sounds excellent. Im glad the game isnt being made about the movie but will still no doubt make loads of money because of the movie. I would love to see this start a trend of games being related to recent movies but not direct adaptations. Ill probably be let down though.
actually. from my caclulations... it should either relase or exposed to the public in under 42 months... so in about 2 years.
fuck my math sucks. under 4 years. my bad.
did it again. this time i got over a month before we did it. forgot to take minutes at 60 and then those 60 making another for an hour... so hopefully that's more accurate and we'll hear something in a month?
i didn't pass math in college, so someone correct me.
@Unicorn: I'd like to see your process, friend-o (especially if you got three different results after three separate calculations). The countdown clearly has the right amount of digits to be in the hundred millions (discounting the last column, which appears to be tenths of seconds). Check out this link for the end result of all my math.
@Clance: Nope, not a soccer fan. And yes, I should be playing Madden, but that's a long story...
YES, PLEASE!
October 5th.
681421737 / 60 (into minutes) / 60 (into hours) / 24 (into days) / 7 (into weeks) / 52 (weeks in a year) = 21.667
fuck. that's the formula when i write it down.. i should've done that from the start. hahaha but yeah. i guess in 21 years we'll find out. previously i tried doing it by 30 (for months) and some other weird divisions that are whack now that i think about it.
It wont be exclusive, but the wii version will be tooned down like Ghostbusters became.
I imagine this game being like Batman Lego + Escape from Bug Island. Both games I have never played mind you.
ok. divide that 21.667 by 12 (months in a year) and i got 1.8, so i think i'm onto something. in about 2 years now. that's way more reasonable. right? about 2 years until it's released or we hear more in regards to a ship date?
You think maybe the countdown isn't actually counting down to zero but some other (relatively large) number? Maybe it's a reference or something from the comics? Quick! Any important numbers in the Batman universe!?!
http://i33.tinypic.com/15fnckj.png
The exact time and date it gets to zero: March 17th, 2030, at 12:46:40PM.
What the fuck?
Let us hope this game doesn't suck.
paul dini? right on!
@Unicorn: Again, check out the Google Search link I posted in my prior comment. 21.6 is already in years, so why would you divide again?
What is all this years talk? Sheeez, need sleep.
Samit, I wanna here that 'long' story on Podtoid. I also wanna come on there and have a FIFA vs Madden showdown to bore the pants off of everybody.
Paul Dini is brilliant. I pray, pray, PRAY that the gameplay is good.
Agreed. Paul Dini on script is promising, but I'll have to see screens and gameplay details before I jump on the hype wagon. Then again, there hasn't been a good Batman game since the NES one...
11.266701845238096 Weeks, apparently.
I used a time converter (the counter is in milliseconds)
http://www.csgnetwork.com/timemath.html
That places it coming in end of October/Beginning of December
Slick Icarus: Yes there was, remember Batman Returns and the Batman: the Animated series games on the SNES by Konami?
You'd think it was merely 11 weeks. You'd be wrong. I tested it, and what Gynecologist says checks out. I went only 2 years ahead, and it didn't even move that 6 over there at the end of the fucking countdown.
Seriously, 21 years? What the fuck.
Arkham Asylum is my favorite Batman graphic novel. If they pull this off like BioShock with Batman, then Holy Fuck Yes.
I am buying this. They could announce it will come out only on a brand new console, three times as expensive as the PS3, for which no other games will ever be made, and I would buy it.
...okay that might be a bit of hyperbole on my part, but still.
That timer has to be broken. No way they announce a game to be released in 21 years.
The Joker for flavour of the month much?
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