Sadly, The Batman Is not Including a Sport to Its Epic Crime Saga

It’s been some time since we’ve had a full-fledged Batman game for console. Whereas the Arkham sub-series is constant with Batman: Arkham Shadow, it feels like we’ll proceed ready to get one other mainline title starring the Darkish Knight in our fingers.

Puck News reported {that a} recreation set within the universe of Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe was in improvement as a part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s intention to determine a stronger video games presence. Very like the upcoming Penguin present, this supposed venture was “seeded” inside the occasions of the 2022 movie, although no additional particulars (like a developer or platforms) have been supplied. However earlier than of us may get too excited, James Gunn stepped in on Threads to say there was “no true to this by any means.” Darn.

Nonetheless, setting apart Gunn’s rumor–quashing phrase, a recreation centered on this particular Batman can be fascinating, and a famous departure from the character’s MO within the medium in fairly some time. Consider it or not, Batman’s final real tie-in recreation was for Batman: The Courageous and the Daring all the best way again in 2010. Past that, his numerous recreation franchises up to now 15 years, just like the Arkham, Lego, and Telltale sequence, have been all unique tales that pulled from completely different components of the character’s a long time of accessible supply materials. And a part of Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC game plan is for an interconnected multimedia universe that additionally contains video games, and movie and TV actors reprising their roles in that medium.

Video games have been an space the place DC has achieved usually properly in the previous couple of years, and with the proper staff, a recreation primarily based on this particular Batman may very well be cool. However such a title was within the works, we’d need to know instantly if Robert Pattinson was getting within the sales space to play his bizarre, angsty-ass iteration of Bruce Wayne.

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