Sadly, The Batman Is not Including a Sport to Its Epic Crime Saga

It’s been some time since we’ve had a full-fledged Batman game for console. Whereas the Arkham sub-series is constant with Batman: Arkham Shadow, it seems like we’ll proceed ready to get one other mainline title starring the Darkish Knight in our arms.

Puck News reported {that a} recreation set within the universe of Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe was in improvement as a part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s intention to ascertain a stronger video games presence. Very like the upcoming Penguin present, this supposed undertaking was “seeded” throughout the occasions of the 2022 movie, although no additional particulars (like a developer or platforms) had been offered. However earlier than of us may get too excited, James Gunn stepped in on Threads to say there was “no true to this in any respect.” Darn.

Nonetheless, setting apart Gunn’s rumor–quashing phrase, a recreation centered on this particular Batman can be attention-grabbing, and a famous departure from the character’s MO within the medium in fairly some time. Consider it or not, Batman’s final real tie-in recreation was for Batman: The Courageous and the Daring all the way in which again in 2010. Past that, his varied recreation franchises previously 15 years, just like the Arkham, Lego, and Telltale sequence, had been all authentic tales that pulled from totally different elements of the character’s many years of obtainable supply materials. And a part of Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC game plan is for an interconnected multimedia universe that additionally consists of video games, and movie and TV actors reprising their roles in that medium.

Video games have been an space the place DC has achieved typically effectively in the previous few years, and with the best crew, a recreation primarily based on this particular Batman may very well be cool. However such a title was within the works, we’d must know instantly if Robert Pattinson was getting within the sales space to play his bizarre, angsty-ass iteration of Bruce Wayne.

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