VIDEO GAMES: Rocksteady Confirm No Vehicles In Batman: Arkham City!

VIDEO GAMES: Rocksteady Confirm No Vehicles In Batman: Arkham City!

There'll be no vehicle-based gameplay in Batman: Arkham City, developer Rocksteady has confirmed. Instead, Batman himself will be "the ultimate vehicle"...

By JoshWilding - Nov 26, 2010 06:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Batman
Source: NowGamer

"There aren't any playable vehicles in the game," the studio's founder Sefton Hill told GamesTM. "What we've really focused on is Batman himself. We see him as the ultimate vehicle."



With the game reported to be set in a much bigger setting that previous installment Arkham Asylum, many fans believed that they would get the chance to take the Batmobile, Batboat or Batplane for a ride across the city. Well, I guess not! Here's more from Hill about the decision not to include vehicles and how they plan to make up for that:

"Obviously, you're now in a much more expansive area than you were in the first game, so a part of our development has been expanding Batman's navigational abilities, adding different ways to glide around, new ways to us the grapple, such as being able to grapple-boost from the top of buildings."


"That's been a massive part of development, to give that wish-fulfilment of feeling what it's like to be Batman inside this district of Gotham City. Our focus was to expand Batman as a character rather than give you lots of different vehicles to go in."


Hill has previously said that Rocksteady has yet to peak, and can do better with Arkham City than it did with Arkham Asylum, so I'm sure that we're still in store for a great game regardless. Batman: Arkham City receives its major world premiere at Spike's VGAs this December 11th, and it releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in fall 2011.




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marvel72
marvel72 - 11/26/2010, 6:50 AM
i would of liked to of drove around gotham city/arkham city maybe grand theft auto style.

oh well still gonna love this game.
Shaman
Shaman - 11/26/2010, 6:56 AM
Well i'm not too pissed at this news really. Kinda was expecting it. Vehicles could only work if we had a massive free roaming Gotham city to drive in. With Arkham City, we only get a part of town that isn't big enough to drive in. So i'm all for them updating Bats' maneuverability, for stealth purposes especially :)
StephenJ
StephenJ - 11/26/2010, 7:07 AM
meh this sucks, but oh well. still gonna be great. I wonder if we will at least get some type of glider or something other than his cape. or would that be considered a vehicle?? Since they are adding different ways for him to glide around I wonder if thats it
johnny1
johnny1 - 11/26/2010, 7:18 AM
We will definitely have vehicles in the third game, which will no doubt be named Arkham Nation, and will probably have Batman running around the entire country fighting loonies.
TheMyth
TheMyth - 11/26/2010, 7:30 AM
I'm actually glad. In games of this caliber, a driving mini game never measures up and almost takes away from it as a result.
Angelus
Angelus - 11/26/2010, 7:41 AM
Thats a shame. I wanted to say "TO THE BATMOBILE!" but I will survive!

BMP!
supersteveprime18
supersteveprime18 - 11/26/2010, 8:07 AM
at least we wont have to pay 15 a month!!
ThunderCougarFalconBird
ThunderCougarFalconBird - 11/26/2010, 8:12 AM
I think vehicles would more than likely cheapen the game and give it too much of an "arcade" feel anyway. Arkham needs to keep it's "down and dirty" feel as you sneak around and remove your targets one by one, keeping to the shadows.
comicbookjerk
comicbookjerk - 11/26/2010, 8:15 AM
WOW? People really expected vehicles? I have played the hell out of the last batman game and i don't see any room to be driving around, Now CO -OP That would be cool id love to see Nightwing or Robin or even the red hood in the game But I bet we dont see much on the coop side for the game
Shaman
Shaman - 11/26/2010, 8:29 AM
TheMyth & BornToRon- Well, for my tastes, i wouldn't want "vehicle levels". I want to be able to drive around everywhere as much as glide around everywhere. Just to have that option in terms of transportation only, would be a spectacular addition. Kind of like Grand Theft Auto (like deadpool72 said) only you can't steel a car, you can only call the batmobile by a remote to come see you where you are so you can jump in and get where you wanna be, faster. And that would be it, the joyride aspect alone would have been nice. But i can understand in this game's case. And hopefully, with the third game we might get to be in Gotham's entire city!

johnny1- That would be cool but they'd need to switch engines.
ElBeaster
ElBeaster - 11/26/2010, 8:37 AM
Im actually okay with this because it wouldn't feel like Arkham Asylum if you could just drive anywhere. It's kind of a creepy game and I'd feel safe in a vehicle lol. Plus there's the whole stealth thing. It'd feel like an entirely different game if I was in the Batmobile half the time.

But cetain levels of driving would be cool. That way it doesn't lose the eerie feel of the first game, but you can still drive on occasion

But on a side note, can you picture if they made the view from the driver's seat? You could feel like you're in the Batmobile. None of that aerial shit. That'd be pretty damn cool
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/26/2010, 9:08 AM
Nice one @ JOSH!

; )

And HEY don't be stranger in my articles man LOL! : P
TheNameIsBetty
TheNameIsBetty - 11/26/2010, 9:30 AM
Expected as much
ibravosp5
ibravosp5 - 11/26/2010, 9:47 AM
the first game was pretty good without the batmobile or batplane. so lets just wait and see how this will work.
thegamedrex
thegamedrex - 11/26/2010, 10:01 AM
a little of let down, i was not expecting to use the vehicle the hole game as the city is now the asylum,which you would ride in your vehicle but some disruption device would stop you from being able to use it most of the game. something crazy like that would make great for in a pinch type levels. imagine the batmobile just stops and breaks down on you in the middle of the street around a bunch of goons with guns and bats. i think i might of created a new level mmmm cool.
48and2
48and2 - 11/26/2010, 11:28 AM
Should've thrown the Tumbler in at least, and maybe skyhooking... it is a little lame imo. That would make for a hell of a good time.
superotherside
superotherside - 11/26/2010, 1:42 PM
that is sad... but still i'm excited 4 this game!
CaptainOtter
CaptainOtter - 11/26/2010, 3:56 PM
this is great news. if a company has a driving part of the game be very small, it tends to be bad. it gets less development time, and is usually less refined. there are exceptions of course, like Halo Reach's awesome space fight level, but generally it doesnt work well.

Now they COULD spend more time developing driving the batmobile or batwing, and have more of the game be focused on driving. But I don't want that. If I wanted to play a damn driving game, I'd buy Gran Turismo. I want to play as Batman, so leave the vehicles to a minimum.
icebergslick
icebergslick - 11/26/2010, 8:32 PM
I believe in Rocksteady Studios. They know what they are doing.
ironknight
ironknight - 11/30/2010, 8:14 AM
At least this is the only bad news so far.
TesDaGreat
TesDaGreat - 11/30/2010, 9:05 AM
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