Rumor: Dark Knight to prowl GTA-style city
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
{ Aug 12th 2008 at 6:00PM }
But it's the game's unusual failure to release -- or even be officially acknowledged by anyone other than Commissioner Gordon -- that you might file in the less crowded category of surprising things. The report attributes Batman's no-show to the developer's continued struggle against a dodgy camera system and repetitive combat, the latter of which is no doubt a challenging side effect of film director Christoper Nolan slamming our hero's cape in the door of reality.
There's hope for a successful outcome (Vigilante's Creed, anyone?) within such a vaporous release schedule, but we're already concerned by the game's supposed adoption of the now-standard "Superhero + GTA = Video Game" formula. EA, we know you ignored us when we pleaded with you to put the Tumbler into Burnout Paradise as an unlockable, but listen to us this one time: People want to be Batman -- all of him. We want to be a billionaire playboy, the world's greatest detective and Gotham's Dark Knight. Don't make us beat up petty thugs in generic alleys all game long, okay?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bababooey @ Aug 12th 2008 6:06PM
I was so looking forward to a side-scroller.
shrapnel09 @ Aug 12th 2008 6:06PM
as gta city style they make it out to be.. i will always hold a level of anger for movie-licensed games... no matter what.
shrapnel09 @ Aug 12th 2008 6:09PM
prejudice!!! thats the word i was trying to get google to spell right for me... so yes i have always held a high level of PREJUDICE for movie licensed games.. that level of anger nonsense was just to fill the gap...
.... i love joker
Tiptup300 @ Aug 12th 2008 6:13PM
Why so serious?
Jakka (Not sure why he got banned?) @ Aug 12th 2008 6:18PM
Do you want to see a magic trick involving Madden 09 disc and a certain anus?
Raikage (GOLDEN Gun Of The Patriots) @ Aug 12th 2008 8:47PM
Does EA look like a producer with a plan?
They're like a dog chasing cars.
They wouldn't know what to do with it if they caught one!
As long as it's part of the plan here, everything is ok:
1. Truck-load of soldiers dying
2. Random criminal dying
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
But as soon as you throw a little anarchy, a little chaos, like when a little ol' mayor dies, people just freak out!
1. Truck-load of soldiers dying
2. Random criminal dying
3. Mayor assassinated
4. OMGLOLWUTBBQ?!?!?!
FSK405K @ Aug 12th 2008 9:47PM
EA building a GTA-level of detailed city? Sure, they SAY they'll do that. We all know it's going to be horrid.
GridloQ @ Aug 12th 2008 6:13PM
They tried something like this with the Batman & Robin movie game for PS1. It didn't work all that well but was kind of ahead of its time. I'd like to see this idea come to fruition.
Jakka (Not sure why he got banned?) @ Aug 12th 2008 6:18PM
Did you have to use the GTA comparison? I thought that Assassin's Creed and Crackdown proved that sandbox don't have to be all GTA clones.
I'd much rather prefer if it was called "sandbox-style city" because I'm sick of the instant Sanbox > GTA word association approach.
Deadpool @ Aug 12th 2008 6:19PM
Will they let me play the joker?! I would be pencil tricking everybody!
"EA, we know you ignored us when we pleaded with you to put the Tumbler into Burnout Paradise as an unlockable"
Yes, that would be awesome!
Hey EA...hey listen to me! [Grabs EA] I'm Deadpool!
[EA - Who?] [Deadpool - Facepalm*]
WRE @ Aug 12th 2008 6:19PM
GTA 4-type open world + Assassin's Creed-style climbing shit = Profits.
LaughingTarget @ Aug 12th 2008 7:24PM
You know, that makes me wonder, how does Batman get on top of all those buildings all the time? Climbing up the side would tire anyone out and I doubt he takes the elevator.
Wilhelm @ Aug 12th 2008 9:25PM
Wow.
It's called the bat grappling hook. He tosses it on top of roofs and scales them.
LaughingTarget @ Aug 12th 2008 10:49PM
Maybe, but he's finding his way to the top of buildings that are 1,000 feet tall that don't have intermediate places to grapple up there. Batman doesn't carry 1,000 feet of cable.
Canilash @ Aug 13th 2008 12:40AM
If you're talking about his jump with the glider, he probably used the elevator, and stairs...
xGeneral DEATHx @ Aug 13th 2008 8:06AM
I suppose he just slips the doorman a C-note and gets in the elevator while using his smokey voice to say "You never saw me". Yeah, definitely only about 25-maybe 50 ft. of cable in that grappler.
Nightvortez @ Aug 12th 2008 6:29PM
Didn't gameinformer pretty much cover all that?
Hmmm, http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200808/N08.0812.1226.23309.htm
Yes they did.
Ludwig Kietzmann @ Aug 12th 2008 6:58PM
Not the same game.
theturtle363 @ Aug 12th 2008 7:47PM
so what if they did? This is joystiq not Game Informer, is joystiq not supposed to report things because someone else did?
theturtle363 @ Aug 12th 2008 6:33PM
Along with this and Arkham Asylum, my life is now complete and I can die happy once I play these. Well, as long as Battlefront 3 and KOTOR 3 come out by then too
GenBanks @ Aug 12th 2008 7:28PM
I don't have my hopes up... The track record for movie tie-ins isn't that great.
H Choi @ Aug 12th 2008 8:51PM
It would be cool if you could control the Joker and rampage the city GTA style.
Dale @ Aug 12th 2008 8:55PM
Poor Batman. He hasn't really had a great run of it... except, perhaps, the fantastic Amiga and NES games.
BigD145 @ Aug 12th 2008 9:37PM
I don't want to stop criminals in Gotham. I want to be the criminal. Why else would someone make a GTAesque reference?
OmegaVader @ Aug 13th 2008 1:34AM
since spider-man 2, it's just assumed all superhero games will be free-roaming ala GTA in order to be a legitimate superhero title. Isn't it?
I would hope so! Leave arcade level-by-level design to IPs suited for it.
ShadowflareXIII @ Aug 13th 2008 3:38AM
*PLEASE* do this right...
Just shut the door...and anyone walking into the development center/office with an EA shirt, name tag, or even says the word "EA", take the emergency magnum and blow their frikkin' head off. No question's asked.
I really want this game to be right...please don't jack it up.
t_m @ Aug 13th 2008 4:50AM
I've been waiting for a sandbox gotham game for years now.
But I hope they include a bit more depth. Driving, flying and swinging through the city is cool and all, but like Spiderman 2 it'll get a little repetitive after a while just fighting random crime.
I always dreamed of one where you had to solve clues to work out the location of crimes and thwart them.. real detective elements. (then drive there and bet up everything!)
Plus i always dreamed of it being a cell shaded version based on Batman: The Animated Series...