Arkham City’s New Detective Mode

Sefton Hill sounds like a suburb of London to me but, it turns out, it’s actually the rather cool name of Batman: Arkham City’s Director. PSM3 (via CVG) have been talking to the man in charge of the sequel to the best comic book to game conversion of recent memory.

Sefton has outlined a few improvements his team have made to Arkham City:

As with nearly every area of the game we’re enhancing it. One example is the criminal database coupled with the new interrogation mechanic, The Riddler continues to taunt the Dark Knight with mind-bending puzzles and exploration challenges, but the location of his biggest secrets are known only to him and people he’s told. Rather than unlocking their locations using maps, Batman will be able to scan a gang of thugs to find a potential informant.

That all sounds very clever already but couple that with the need to preserve your interrogation victim while you beat up all the other goons and you have a very interesting problem. You can no longer just get lost in huge combo chains among groups of enemies because you will constantly have to keep an eye out for that guy with the information you’re looking for.

18 Comments

  1. Sounds like a cracking idea. Really cant wait to have a blast of Arkham city. Its gonna be awesome :-)

    • That and co-op should be interesting.

  2. I was very impressed with arkham asylum, tis will definatley be a day 1 purchase for me. was watching batman begins last night. Never realised that victor zsas was in it.

  3. Sounds really nice, can’t wait to try this out.

  4. i can see myself cursing already!

  5. Cool beans…

  6. Batman spies a group of thugs.

    CRASH BANG WALLOP POW SLAM

    Oh hold on, would you Mr Thug With Info please step aside so I can beat these thugs up leaving you alone so I can interrogate you with force after?

    Sure no problem Mr Batman.

    Thug with info steps aside.

    Batman beats up the rest of thugs.

    How is this going to work???? You will need dective mode on when beating up guys???

    • just avoid hitting the other guy too much i guess!

      • Batman never kills anybody so maybe you can beat them up and then bring them back round

  7. sounds rather swell and Sefton Hill makes me think of a villain from a sherlock Holmes story

  8. sounds like fun, im sure you’ll be4 able to do something clever like tie them up or stun them, allowing you to kick some ass and the interrogate afterwards…

  9. Biggest game I’m looking forward to next year, after MGS Rising. And that’d only because I have to have everything to do with MGS.

  10. He just needs the Bat-wake-up-to-interrogate-spray, surely.

    • lets hope he doesn’t get it mixed up withe the anti shark spray!

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