Batman Arkham Origins New Details Out

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s upcoming action-adventure video game, Batman Arkham Origins new details have been released via GamesMaster Magazine 264.

In the issue Warner Bros. Games Montreal discusses its approach to create a Dark Knight, they also talk about the features that were removed from the prequel.

A storm indicator, which notifies Batman when a storm was about to hit and let him strategically use the stunning effects of snowstorms to his advantage. However, this was eventually removed as it broke the flow of combat.

• Batman: Arkham Origins is the story behind “how the unrefined, rough-around-the-edges, early career Batman” becomes Dark Knight
• Batman and Captain Gordon meet for the first time during the events of Arkham Origins
• Senior producer Ben Mattes says there are elements to the story that they will never discuss before the game has shipped.
• Batman in Arkham Origins has the moves and the abilities, but hasn’t faced the challenges that shape him into the Batman we know. Arkham City Batman is described as Batman 5.0, while Arkham Origins Batman is 0.9.
• It’s “year two” of Batman‘s career, roughly speaking
• WB Montreal has been given everything Rocksteady had, from engine tweaks to concept art, plays exactly like Arkham City
• Since Origins takes place during a snowstorm, it provided warning of incoming wind blasts. However, it negatively impacted the free flow combat as “enemies stand around waiting for you to punch them” and “you’re swinging wildly because you don’t know where they are.” The feature was removed.
• The enemy quad-rotor drone which would patrol rooms in search of Bats. The drone “broke the richness of the predator room, which is in giving the player the power to play the way they want,” was also removed.
• Detective mode has been overhauled, as has the gadget upgrade progression tree.
• Goons will be able to “take advantage of the verticality” of New Gotham
• Legends of the Dark Knight was the “single most inspirational piece of media. Making Batman scary again is important”
• WB Montreal believes it has made “the coolest version of Deathstroke. He’s a wonderful counterpart to Batman“
• Northern Gotham is the area that became Arkham City, it is a mix of low-rent residential and industrial buildings. Referred to as the Brooklyn of Gotham.
• New Gotham is described as the ‘Soho’ or ‘East Village’ of the city. It is a brand new, upmarket area, borderline financial zone of the city. Focus is tall buildings, catwalks and walkways here.
• The GCPD is corrupt, so Gotham’s swat teams are out to get Batman too. No mention of Joker yet.
• A ‘Most Wanted’ mechanic offers a selection of mini-campaign side-stories centered around other major villains.

The game is in development at Warner Bros. Montreal. The series’ original developer, Rocksteady Studios, is working on another project, which is currently under wraps.

Batman: Arkham Origins will releases on October 25, 2013 for Wii U, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

Source: GamesMaster