Batman: Arkham Asylum contains hidden clues about Arkham City

by Mike Schramm on Aug 9th 2010 9:00PM

It turns out the new Batman: Arkham City game recently announced by Rocksteady in Game Informer has been in the planning stages for a while -- there are hints in Batman: Arkham Asylum that the cape and cowl adventure would expand its borders. A secret room hidden in the back of Warden Quincy Sharp's office has actually held concept art and a map of the upcoming sequel this whole time.

Players who finished the Spirit of Arkham quest to 100 percent the game will also know that Sharp has some extra agendas goin -- and don't forget that one of the domains registered by Warner Bros. for the sequel is "StopMayorSharp.com." So it appears that Rocksteady has already built story ties between the two titles.

Lead narrative designer Paul Crocker also tells GI that the second game will "shed new light on the events you saw in Arkham Asylum," too. Hopefully that means we'll (spoiler!) finally find out what's up with that little surprise scene after the credits.

Source: Game Informer

Tags: batman-arkham-asylum, Batman-Arkham-City, game-informer, microsoft, paul-crocker, pc, playstation, ps3, quincy-sharp, xbox

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Can't wait for this sequel, first one was so damn good!

@Shiv Thrice

INCONCEIVABLE.

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

@Shiv Thrice man every time i see news related to arkham asylum, i just want to go back and play it more!

@Shiv Thrice I never heard of Arkham city in the old TV shows or Movies... Was this city created for the Game?

@liquidsoap89

First time I've ever used it.

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller
Boooooooo for having not read the princess bride. Or at least seen the movie.

@KirbyCommando

I saw the movie. Which inspired me to say it in the first place, just never got around to knowing what it means.

The only improvement I can really ask for over the first one is better boss fights. Aside from that, I would have to say that the first one was a nearly perfect game.

@Raiki I'd like to see detective mode get fixed. It made the game too easy and there was no real incentive to not keep it on the whole time.

@Raiki I don't know about perfect, overall I liked the look and feel of everything but the sewers. Being down there was incredibly boring to me with the exception of fighting Croc which really wasn't a fight.

@Faceless Troll

Detective mode for me too, I would have liked to have seen all the beautiful environments without everything being blue and full of skeletons. Sure, being a detective is one of life's greatest pleasures, but I don't know if I'm about to trade full color vision for it.

@Raiki - They could do without the slow-mo for me. I'd rather watch the Valkyrie carry me away in Too Human every 10 minutes than have a fight interrupted by that terrible slow-mo. Otherwise, brilliant game - and I totally agree with having both better boss fights and reworking detective mode.

You will be glad to read this then:

http://www.destructoid.com/we-nearly-made-batman-arkham-asylum-s-art-director-weep-179009.phtml

Every ending of that game was worth getting. Such a masterpiece

@Ryuk

Wait... There was more than one ending!?!?!

HOW HAVE I NOT KNOWN ABOUT THIS!?!?

@liquidsoap89 Don't be fooled. All three endings are the same except for the character who does the grabbing.

@Ryuk

and they were all awesome

@Ryuk

So how do you get the different endings? And what were they, if you don't mind spoiling it (I sure don't)?

@Ryuk

either Bane, Scarecrow or Killer Croc come out of the water and grab the Titan box. Mine was croc

@Ryuk

Oh cool, now that I think about it I think Bane came out for my ending.

Man, I wish I were Batman instead of Ezio.

His gadgets are so much cooler.

/weeps quietly

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
don't cry ezio :[
you're still amazing
you get to stab people with knives and stuff
that's always cool

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

one is enough.

Yeah, but you don't see Ezio spraying his knuckles with c4 then punching super-mutants in the face...

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Your double hidden blade is pretty cool.

@PedoJokerBear

PJB, did you get my e-mail about me and MJ's orgy?

@DevilSei You don't see Batman kicking the Pope's arse though..

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller

dude......stop it.

@PedoJokerBear

You didn't get it?

is arkham asylum worth getting? i considered it when it was on sale on steam, but ultimately held back. ive still got a ton of games to play as well... so basically, is it worth my time?

@toadsworth
Hell yeah, it is! Depends if you like Action Adventure game. If you do, get it.

@BlackFox5 action adventure is where its at. is the story pretty good as well?

@toadsworth

The story is written by Paul Dini, one of the best modern Batman writers. He wrote the animated series. Nuff said

@toadsworth I am one of the few people who fails to see how arkham asylum is an amazing game. It's good, for a superhero game. That being said, superhero games generally aren't that good. So looking at the game objectively, it is a pretty good game, but I hardly found it brilliant.

@Iron Man thanks for the input. i may have to add this to the list!

@toadsworth

No problem. :D

@toadsworth
yes. but only if you like awesome games!!!!

seriously, i ended up getting it at a time i had like 5 games i hadn't played or hadn't completed, but once i started, everything else went on the backburner. it is up there amongst the best games this generation.

@toadsworth

YES

@toadsworth dude it's one of the best games of last year and the best superhero game ever.

This is awesome. It shows that Warner Brothers believed in Arkham Asylum even before it was finished being developed. I hope they can turn the first game into a franchise that brings us multiple excellent Batman games. Lord knows we've waited long enough for a decent superhero game franchise.

@BananaBoat
"Lord knows we've waited long enough for an amazing superhero game franchise."

Fixed.

You put the spoiler thing after the majority of spoilers? lol
You're doing it wrong!

Also I hope they have the camera more like the fighting camera and not the zoomed in over the shoulder one. I couldn't stand it.

I need to beat Arkham Asylum at some point. I hope they pack in more Riddler Challenges in the sequel, those were always fun diversions and great fan service.

Also, from what little I have seen I like how the Cat Woman on the cover of Game Informer matches the bit of artwork you get for that particular Riddler Challenge. It's not as knock-you-over-the-head blatantly sexualized as Harley or Poison Ivy was in the first game.

Hmmm, might just have to go back and finish up the remaining 14% I have left on this game.

How is that little Easter egg in Arkham Asylum only just now being mentioned? I heard about that months ago, literally a week after sending my copy of the game back to Gamefly (I almost put it back on my queue just to find that map).

Indeed, this is quite an interesting secret...

Is Mark Hamill going to reprise his role as the Joker? I've read that he's done doing Joker voices. I think he was the voice of Joker in the Arkham City teaser a while ago though.

@GuardianLegend I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that this game is actually his very last Joker project. He's retiring that voice.

@GuardianLegend Ahh, here it is:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/27/mark-hamill-plans-to-retire-from-joker-role-after-batman-arkham/

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