Gotham City isn’t just an incandescent outline that surrounds an island fitted to contain the deranged. Those exposed to just Batman: Arkham Asylum may have gotten that impression — the misshapen metropolis wasn’t a part of the package. And while it appears as if the follow-up will keep that concentrated design decision in mind, it wouldn’t be wise to think the Bat is headed back to Asylum: in the words of a developer, that location has “almost run its course.”
“I think you’re probably right in that it’s almost run its course,” Batman: AA senior gameplay programmer Paul Denning told PC Zone magazine in a recent retrospective about the original game. “We did pick a selection of buildings that we thought would fit the [original] game well.
“You could quite easily point out that there are various things that you wouldn’t usually find in an asylum especially on an island that’s supposedly self-contained.”
Denning added that Gotham has several unique places to explore outside of the island, an idea that lines up with the Spike Video Game Awards “Batman 2” reveal trailer. Places like the Iceberg Lounge perhaps? We’ll see.
[via CVG]
