VIDEO GAMES: New BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT Screenshots Plus Could Lex Luthor Be In The Game?

VIDEO GAMES: New BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT Screenshots Plus Could Lex Luthor Be In The Game?

Celebrating 3,000,000 likes on Facebook; Rocksteady released a couple new screenshots for their highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight video game. Also is Superman's arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor, in the game? Click to check it out.

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By LEVITIKUZ - Jan 24, 2015 12:01 PM EST
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It's only about 3 months and a week until Batman: Arkham Knight releases on the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. 2 new screenshots for the game have been released and are obviously posted above this text. Now with this being Rocksteady's LAST Batman game, many fans think they will do another DC game or perhaps a new IP after Batman: Arkham Knight. The one DC superhero everyone wants to see Rocksteady tackle on is Superman. Like Batman's video game history before Batman: Arkham Asylum, Superman's video game history is pretty bad. The most noteworthy game is Nintendo 64's Superman 64 which many proclaim as one of the worst video games of all time. Now Batman also had Batman: Dark Tomorrow which Gameinformer gave a 0.75/10. In the second trailer in the Ace Chemicals Infiltration demo, if you pause at 1:09, you will see this:



Props to TheFirstAvenger for pointing this out.
 
Yep, a LexCorp building in Gotham. It won't be the first time Lex Luthor is involved in a major Batman story without the Man of Steel, if he is in the game. Lex Luthor was a big villain in the Batman story arc No Man's Land. Now it could just be an easter egg. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, there was an easter egg to the Injustice League which Lex Luthor started in the comics. In Batman: Arkham City, Professor Hugo Strange mentioned wanting to do Arkham City like prisons in places like Metropolis and Keystone City. Metropolis is Superman's city obviously and Keystone City is the city Wally West Flash protects. Now there were a ton of easter eggs in WB Montreal's Batman: Arkham Origins. Easter eggs to characters like Superman, Green Arrow, Hal Jordan Green Lantern, Barry Allen Flash, Wonder Woman, and others. I choose not to post about them mostly because I'm focusing on Rocksteady's Batman games because the main easter eggs in this article are from Rocksteady's upcoming Batman: Arkham Knight. So what do you take from this? Do the new screenshots look amazing or ugly? Do you think Lex could be involved in this story or the LexCorp building is just an easter egg? Do you want Rocksteady's next game to be a Superman game or another DC hero or maybe a new IP from them? Comment below, let me know. Peace.



 
In the explosive finale to the Arkham series, Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city he is sworn to protect. The Scarecrow returns to unite an impressive roster of super villains, including Penguin, Two-Face and Harley Quinn, to destroy The Dark Knight forever. Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady's uniquely designed version of the Batmobile, which is drivable for the first time in the franchise. The addition of this legendary vehicle, combined with the acclaimed gameplay of the Batman Arkham series, offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the streets and soar across the skyline of the entirety of Gotham City. Be The Batman.
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LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:13 PM
When I think of next gen, I tell people this is next gen:



Not this. This is a lame excuse for next gen:



Again. Next gen:



Lame excuse for next gen



Still nice to see Marvel doing free to play phone and tablet games, Facebook games, Disney Infinity, and MMOs. DC will continue making real video games.
JAC
JAC - 1/24/2015, 12:18 PM
@LEVITIKUZ Man, those TASM2 graphics were horrid.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 1/24/2015, 12:19 PM
Shout out to the users who still don't know who Arkham Knight is. We're all in for a huge surprise I'm sure of it!
Clara
Clara - 1/24/2015, 12:20 PM
Who is Spider-Man?
JAC
JAC - 1/24/2015, 12:20 PM
I really hope Arkham Knight somehow leads to a Justice League game or lead to getting a new Superman game down the line. I still wonder how awesome this would have been:
Peel
Peel - 1/24/2015, 12:21 PM
I don't think he'll physically appear, but might have a mastermindy role to some of the events in this game, like Mad Hatter's ties to Hugo Strange.

Also, everyone wants superman to be the one DC superhero Rocksteady tackles next? Pfft nah. I want it to be Green Arrow or Martian Manhunter.
JAC
JAC - 1/24/2015, 12:21 PM
@TheRationalNerd We must rally together! I have zero idea why so many people actively try to spoil movie plot points for themselves, let alone video games. It's fun to speculate, but boring to actually know.
Peel
Peel - 1/24/2015, 12:22 PM
Though a Suicide Squad game is the far likeliest in terms of buildup from the past Arkham games.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:22 PM
@Sipprelle

Dude, Aunt May in that game.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:23 PM
@TheRationalNerd

Nobody knows who the Arkham Knight is. That suppose "leaked" script was bullshit. Mod who works at Rocksteady said it on the Batman Arkham Knight forums.
JAC
JAC - 1/24/2015, 12:23 PM
Unreleased Justice League game footage just came out:
JAC
JAC - 1/24/2015, 12:24 PM
And by "just came out" I mean I just saw it.
FightAs0ne
FightAs0ne - 1/24/2015, 12:30 PM
@LEVITIKUZ You know that moment when you look at a horrible game and you;re glad you avoided that shit like the Matrix? Yeah ASM2 was the shit I dodged. Almost got it because it was a boring summer, but thank god I resisted.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 1/24/2015, 12:32 PM
Superman game incoming!!
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/24/2015, 12:33 PM
I'm sure the ending of Arkham Knight will tease Rocksteady's next game which I think may either be Superman or the Justice League. I'd rather it be Superman.

It's going to be so hard to not see any spoilers when this game drops. I don't want to Rush myself playing the game but I want to beat it as fast as I can to avoid spoilers. Ugh, guess I'll have to avoid almost every site.
Darktower
Darktower - 1/24/2015, 12:33 PM



Hmmm Interesting!!

I m hoping WB games is making a Suicide Squad, as they teased at the end of the Arkham Origin game!


and Rocksteady moves on to a Superman game.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:33 PM
@FightAs0ne

I actually got TASM2 day 1. There was a deal where I could get 2 free movie tickets for it and since it was $50, I'd figure "I'm really only paying $30".

Terrible game. I blame my nostagia of Spider-Man games. I hate it more than TASM2.

Good news is I beat it in a week, got all the achievements, and sold it to Gamestop and they gave me $40 back.

I used the movie pass on TASM2. Hehe, Sony didn't get a single dime off me for TASM2 movie.
Enphlieuwince
Enphlieuwince - 1/24/2015, 12:33 PM
Justice League game next; make it so.
AC1
AC1 - 1/24/2015, 12:34 PM
A Superman video game would be so difficult to pull off, purely because of the scope of his powers. While certain ones translate well (e.g. X-Ray vision [possibly with super-hearing added] could be analogous to Detective Mode), problems arise when you consider that Superman can fly anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes. This means the game would either have to:

a) Limit the setting to a [large] Metropolis, and have either an auto-turn-back feature should you try to fly out of the city
b) Have a few settings and make the Metropolis boundaries 'fast travel' areas to other places (similar to early Assassin's Creed games but without the load-screens in between)
c) Water down Superman's powers, thereby watering down the experience, so he physically can't leave Metropolis.
OR
d) Wait a few gens and try to actually render the whole world as a playable map (75% joking but that would be incredible).

[A Flash game would present similar problems, although I suppose once you reach the edge of the map he could automatically run around the world and stop on the opposite map-edge]

Then of course you need an actual threat to Superman - sure, bosses like Metallo and Brainiac can present a challenge but you need a story and villain-grunts to fill the map who can somehow actually harm Superman.

Still, a good Superman game would be very welcome.

@LEVITIKUZ seriously? Those are current gen graphics? Looks like early last gen, maybe even late gen before that!
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/24/2015, 12:35 PM
@Sipprelle

Reminds me a lot of Marvel Nemesis
AreTudaEDub
AreTudaEDub - 1/24/2015, 12:35 PM
I got XBox One...anybody wish this had online co-op like the crackdown games.
Enphlieuwince
Enphlieuwince - 1/24/2015, 12:38 PM
TASM2 was THE letdown of 2014 for me. Can't be anymore disappointed than I was after watching that movie. Unlike other movies, I have neither the patience nor the desire for repeat viewings.
AstonishingArachnid
AstonishingArachnid - 1/24/2015, 12:39 PM
@LEVITIKUZ What a hypocrite you are. Take a look at the past 4 years of DC's video game line up. Anything that's not Arkham is either a free to play or iOS game (Man of Steel iOS, Dark Knight Rises iOS, Gotham City imposters, Justice League, infinite crisis), part of Scribblenauts (basically Disney Infinity) or a Lego game. Two of the games that aren't are Green Lantern Rise of the Manhunters (abysmal) and Young Justice Legacy (nauseating). Majority of superhero games in the last 4 years have been horrible, with exceptions of course. But Marvel and DC share the blame for that.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:42 PM
@AC1

Dude I'm not lying. Those are the graphics for PS4 and Xbox One for TASM2.

It's sad that TASM1 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 look better than the TASM2 does on the One and PS4.




Also here's LEVITIKUZ'S SUPERMAN GAME PITCH

I wanna make this article but figure I could make a few points.

Basic plot, Zod escapes the Phantom Zone. Once he escapes he goes to Superman's Fortress of Soultiude and gets the gun thing to send people to the Phantom Zone. Zod figures out a way to reverse it to bring people out of the Phantom Zone.

Zod enters Metropolis and uses the reverse and lets all the monsters, aliens, and bad guys who were in the Phantom Zone. Lex sees this and he has like a force field like dome around Metropolis so the creatures are trapped in with Superman. Basically half of Metropolis is in a dome. As Superman you have to stop all the people Zod let out. Picture like 5 Doomsdays, Faora, Nom, multiple Kryptian criminals, maybe Mongul, and others. You also have to stop Zod from trying to escape the force field so he doesn't destroy anywhere or anything else.

It's like Batman Arkham City mixed with Ghostbusters mixed with God of War but with Superman. All the villains released can harm Superman and hurt him.

That's my pitch.
FrozenDiamondz
FrozenDiamondz - 1/24/2015, 12:43 PM
@Sipprelle

Why are all these Superman and JL games getting cancelled? I would kill for a Marvel vs DC game, one that's similar to Marvel vs Capcom.
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/24/2015, 12:45 PM
Depending on the size of Gotham in Arkham Knight, I think it could determine how much they could build off of to make a world for a Superman game. A proper Superman title would take years to develop. 2 years minimum. What the Arkham games also did was have Batman explore areas such as buildings, sewers, etc. I think that for Superman you could replace similar aspects with the phantom zone, or Smallville. As for enemies, I'd suggest make enemies that you can showcase Superman's abilities, I would say robots like underdeveloped Metallos as well as false Doomsdays/prototypes made by Lex, as well as your regular thugs with Kryptonite weaponry funded by LexCorp. What would be fun would be saving civilians and having missions when you have to protect civilians from collateral damage. As well as having moments when you have to practically save Metropolis (like the scene in Superman Returns). However you can also cause damage to the city (like the Superman CS. Zod fight in Man of Steel). And for Superman's flight speed I'd say the speed of the Batmobile could be used as a template, but make him a bit faster and easy to control. Just some suggestions
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:51 PM
@AstonishingArachnid

When you look at video games, yea DC has had their fair share of free to play games but when you look at console in the past fews years, Marvel hasn't done nothing but make shit games.

I'm not talking about Lego Marvel. That's good but every Lego game is good. I'm not talking about Marvel Vs Capcom 3 because that's just an updated version of an article good game.

But let's look at the publishers for Marvel's games in those 4 years. MARVEL WORKED WITH CAPCOM, ACTIVISION, AND UBISOFT AND STILL PUT OUT SHIT GAMES!!!! DC just had WB games as their developer. Marvel had more chances and more people to be involved and still failed.
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/24/2015, 12:52 PM
And Injustice is arguably the best fighting game of the last gen.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:53 PM
@KidGoku

I'd say Injustice is overall better than Marvel Vs Capcom 3. Marvel vs Capcom 3 was basically an updated version of the past 2 games. It does look 100 times better visually than Injustice but Injustice has just as good fight controls and a great story behind it. I don't even think Marvel vs Capcom 3 had a story and don't remember it.
AreTudaEDub
AreTudaEDub - 1/24/2015, 12:54 PM
@AC1 Good ideas, but I think you would need to make Superman game with Clark Kent as the main character. It would play like a GTA V but you have to get scoops and investigate happenings in Metropolis with out bring on suspicion that your Superman. Almost like GTA's 5 star system. The game main objective is to obtain crazy scoops and stories while staying mild mannered. After you get enough scoops and expose enough villians in your compiled reports there are superman set pieces.
FordEl
FordEl - 1/24/2015, 12:56 PM
Justice League Game by Rocksyeady confirmed
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/24/2015, 12:56 PM
@DlAMONDS

Superman got canceled for the same reason the Flash game did. Both the Superman and Flash video game license were at this one publisher. Don't remember what they are called. They went out of business. I do know Factor 5, the studio behind the Star Wars Rogue Squadron Trilogy, were working on Superman. Factor 5 is no longer in business and I think the Flash developers aren't either.
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/24/2015, 1:01 PM
@LEVITIKUZ

I agree, and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 didn't have a story, which none of them really did. What pisses me off about Capcoms fighters is that they won't abandon the traditional arcade side scrolling story, which holds them back incredibly. Not to mention the fighting mechanics have NEVER changed, just flashy moves. Injustice made each of their characters work and balanced as well as using the stage to help your fight like kicking them into the background or throwing cars, and depending on your characters strength it alters the way you use those methods of fighting. That's what made it so good! The story was a great game story and a nice tribute to DC fans, and did the one thing that DC hadn't done in a while, they made Superman the hero and the central character! As well as having each character in the story work while still keeping the same Mortal Kombat formula. I'm ready for a sequel, Marvel needs to step up.
Nickk
Nickk - 1/24/2015, 1:04 PM
This Game Shits On Both LoL
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