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Eidos makes Batman: Arkham Asylum official

by Jason Dobson on Aug 13th 2008 8:30AM

Eidos has made Batman: Arkham Asylum all official, confirming the earlier revealed Rocksteady Studios-developed trip to Gotham City. Calling the game a "haunting, action detective game," Eidos notes that it and Warner Bros. will publish the action adventure title globally for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC in 2009.

According to Eidos, the game's story, penned by Batman Beyond's Paul Dini, will center on a trap set by Arkham Asylum inmates for Batman as he delivers Joker to the infamous prison. While much of the thunder of Eidos' announcement was taken by the dynamic duo of Game Informer and NeoGAF yesterday, Warner Bros. Interactive president Martin Tremblay calls the game both "graphically distinct" and "incredibly dark," as players hunt down and do battle with Gotham's worst. We look forward to additional details about Batman: Arkham Asylum as they become available, and have tossed a batarang in Eidos' direction for more.

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Tags: batman, batman-arkham-asylum, eidos, PC, PS3, rocksteady-studios, warner-bros, warner-bros-interactive, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (33)

Im having mixed emotions.

GTA Batman = Cool as hell

Eidos = Bad game developer

Give em a break, Tomb raider, Theif, Deus Ex,Legacy of Kain series. Eidos has PUBLISHED some great games in its day.

I dont know too much about the developer Rocksteady though.

Rocksteady is a GREAT developer - they did an awesome arcade-style FPS for PS2 and XBOX called Urban Chaos Riot Response. I gotta say it's the best FPS designed for a console that I've ever played, just because it didn't have overwrought PC shooter aspirations like a lot of them do. Everything you did in the game was just fun, and the game had an excellent sarcastic Robocop 1-style personality. Hopefully a lot of the mechanics, like the game's alternate goals system, show up in the Batman game.

Good job Eidos isn't developing, eh? :D

If they can nail the tone and keep it similar to the recent movies and books they're inspired by, I'll be all over this.

C'mon man you're forgetting the Hitman series. Where's the love for poor 47.

I really hope this is good. Always seemed to me that Batman was a great IP for a game. It just never happened.

Good to see DC looking to get involved with gaming more, Marvel is already way ahead of them.

At least we can be thankful they didn't try the kiss of death movie cash in.

But with some resources and most importantly, time, this could be freaking awesome.

Sad when the best Batman game to date will probably be Lego Batman [which I'm incredibly psyched for:)]

The best Batman game to date is Batman Returns on the SNES. Truly ahead of its time, and still holds up today.

I doubt Lego Batman will be better than it. Judging from the other Lego games, it will have too many puzzles, and not enough ass kicking.

Ahead of it's time? Did it invent a time machine and come out before Streets of Rage? The game rocked, but it certainly wasn't anything new.

The best Batman game in my opinion was The Adventures of Batman and Robin on the SNES. That game completely nailed the look and feel of the animated series. I highly recommended you guys check it out.

NaeemTHM,

Did Streets of Rage allow you to throw enemies horizontally, and vertically while on a 2-D plane? Did it have a kick ass driving sequence? Did Streets of Rage allow you break objects that were in the BACKGROUND, not just objects on the same plane as you?

what about the punisher arcade game?

I have to admit, I'm a bit interested at the details thus far... moreso if Hush is announced as a playable character. ;D

I am so with you on this, HUSH is such a cool enemy, and i do hope they make the game as good as it sounds, but i have to side with the joystiq podcasters on this one,

ASSASSINS CREED ENGINE + BATMAN SUIT + DARK THEME THROUGHOUT + CATCHING CRIMINALS = OMGMEGABBQTON

Thats whats up, im wit you mcelroy

Hush would be cool to play as, he has a cool aesthetic, but is probably the most ill conceived villain ever

God? Hi. It's me. Please, please, please help the devs not fuck this up. Thanks.

It has Harley Quinn in it.
Do you need any other reason to purchase it puddin'?

She is my favorite comic villainess.
Insanity + depravity + cute = awesome

Quoted for truth.

Paul Dini = awesome.

QFT, Justice League cartoons were always incredible, and Detective Comics blows the regular Grant Morrison written Batman out of the water

More Scarecrow!!!

I would love to see a dark feeling Batman game come out that doesn't feel like the same disappointing formula we have received in the past. I'm not big on superhero games as a whole, but would be up for giving this a run if it comes out as described.

why so serious?

Is this game based on the Arkham Asylum graphic novel?

If it is, then I'm definitely all over it.

So I'm going to take this as being different then the Dark Knight game that was confirmed by Gary Oldman?
Since that one is rumored to by Pandemic and I thought EA had the rights to the movie based games?

Somebody please clarify for me.

I kinda wish they went FP mix in some good FPS AI from games like fear and dues ex with gameplay a mix of batman games dark messiah(minus magic of coarse)and Call of cuthulu, with a sandboxish mp layout giving akin to cryisis, and be sure to give a good pacing weapons/abilities because cryisis sucked from poor pacing....makeing a good to great game wonky if not boring.

"According to Eidos, the game's story, penned by Batman Beyond's Paul Dini..."

Sold.

ok, you guys are amusing me at how confused you are haha..

actually yes im very amused..

Damn, I'am SO HYPED about this game. Finally a Batman game thats NOT based on a movie or cartoon series but a straight up COMIC BOOK GAME. It's about time. And for the people who are confused, Eidos is NOT developing it their publishing it. The developer is Rocksteady Studios who made the really fun (but very underplayed) Urban Chaos Riot Response(Xbox/PS2). This game has HUGE potential as it could very well be right up their with the other greatest Batman games ever (in my opinion anyway), Batman Returns(SNES), and Adventures of Batman and Robin(SNES). Screw EA and their movie based Dark Knight game, THIS is the Batman game I truly want.

Screenshots are up on the official site.
http://www.rocksteadyltd.com/games.html

The screenshots have been taken down. I saved the screenshots in case they disappear again. -> http://mihd.net/2jboe3w

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