Arkham City not Getting Multiplayer

News circulating the internet this afternoon is that the follow up to Rocksteady’s wonderful Batman game of 2009 will remain a solitary experience. Thanks to an interview given to IGN by Sefton Hill of Rocksteady we can now close the lid on those rumours of Robin making a playable cooperative appearance.

Mr Hill says, in no uncertain terms, that the studio felt that they could make a better game if they weren’t diverting focus towards multiplayer modes.

Our thought process behind this was fairly simple: when we investigated adding multiplayer we asked, “If we use all of the energy that is required to create multiplayer and instead focus this on the single player, would that deliver a better overall game?”

With the game now coming to the final stages, I can honestly say it would not have been possible to deliver Arkham City the way we wanted to if we’d have added multiplayer.

In the same interview he also talks about Catwoman’s general role (hint: it’s very similar to every Catwoman appearance in every Batman story ever) and a little bit about a character who might not be so familiar to casual Batman fans: Hugo Strange.

We are very pleased to hear that Rocksteady are determined to make the best single player experience possible and don’t feel pressured to add multiplayer simply because it would be the fashionable choice. It’s good to know that plenty of thought has gone in to ensuring that the follow up to one of 2009’s best games will be just as good.

Source: IGN

33 Comments

  1. Fantastic news, glad they wont be diluting the single player experience with a dodgy multiplayer mode!

  2. Good. Dead Space didnt need co-op either, it’s fun for ten minutes but that’s it.

  3. I think Rocksteady should at least give Catwoman, Robin, Nightwing et al a chance to shine in their own challenge rooms.
    Or perhaps a playthrough from Catwoman’s perspective in a similar fashion to Lucia (from DMC 2).

  4. This makes me happy. dont get me wrong, i like a bit of multiplayer, but a nice long immersive single player game is where its at for me.

  5. Very good news

  6. woohoo liking this news although Batman AA did have online leaderboards for the challenges and something like that again on Arkham city would be fine with me.

  7. Glad they are focused on the single player only, great news !

  8. If they were to integrate multiplayer into AC, how would it even work? What could they have done?

  9. If it means we get a better single player experience, then I support their decision 100%. :)

  10. I applaud this move. Nothing worse than cramming an MP mode into games that don’t need them. (well, obviously there are worse things but you catch my drift.)

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