I have nearly two hours of audio from yesterday evening’s Batman: Arkham City event at BAFTA in London and it is going to take me a while to transcribe. So, to whet your appetite, here are a few key points.
- The game will start with you playing as Catwoman.
- There are 400 – that’s four hundred – trophies (in game, not PSN) to collect.
- The number of fighting moves and subsequently the number of animations for Batman has doubled.
- The Batmobile and the Batwing do not feature in the game.
- “The most detailed open world game ever”
- Each Villain has their own section of Arkham City and each has a graphical theme.
- Rocksteady were panicking near the end of development as they thought they may have set the bar too high.
- I have now seen the event that certain websites spoiled earlier today, it finishes with a massive screen saying “Please reset this console immediately – MASSIVE SPOILERS”. Websites spoiling or ill-advised marketing?
- The best way to play Batman: Arkham City is on a 100 ft cinema screen, sitting in a big red comfy chair sponsored by Dame Judi Dench. Any other set up will just not do.
Stay tuned for the full write up of ‘Batman: Arkham City’ at BAFTA. I needed to sleep and today I have to make a chocolate cake and then I’ll be all over it like Kris and that PR girl from Sega.
Jakster123x
Well, at least I now know my setup can do it justice. ;)
StevenHibs
o_O how so?
nofi
Won’t be buying it after yesterday’s stunt, sorry.
kjkg
that not a bit extreme?
StevenHibs
“Rocksteady were panicking near the end of development as they thought they may have set the bar too high”
I must admit i LOL’d
ghost5
I am really looking forward to this game. I bought asylum again the other week just to play through it again (game put the second hand price up by £5 as they knew people would be buying it again). Trying my best to keep away from the spoiler – here’s hoping its not Alfred is a playable character
The Lone Steven
I am glad it is 400 ingame trophies and not PSN trophies as it would probably cause the xmb to crash whenever you try to look at them.
I wonder if they will include an easter egg/pisstake of the spoilers?
If they are panicing over if they have set the bar too high then we are going to get one excellent Batman game. :D I can see why they would panic as the sequel to Batman:AC(if there is one) would be pretty hard to top B:AC if it is excellent. :)
RudeAwakening
400 trophies! dear god im barely able to get 40 trophies!