VIDEO GAMES: Sefton Hill Reflects On BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY

Batman: Akrham City is still riding high after being released this past Fall and Game Director over at Rocksteady Sefton Hill sat down with CVG to look back on the roller coaster ride it was to make and distribute the game. Hill was asked if one of the pressures was to make the game multiplayer, "We did look at multiplayer early on and we looked at what it could actually bring to the table. We tried some ideas out but it always felt like it was just there as a requirement. If we did multiplayer then we wouldn't have been able to deliver the quality of game that people wanted - that we wanted. We would end up delivering two watered down products," said Hill. He also said that Warner Brothers was really good about not forcing them to do multiplayer in a market where multiplayer games rule.

One of the games more shocking twists was the ending revolving around The Joker. Hill said early on they knew how the game would end with SPOILERThe Joker dying, and that they would start the game off with him being sick. They also hit on the idea of The Joke infecting Batman early on as well saying, "we wanted the two of them having this kind of shared goal, but with diametrically opposed world views. We felt that gave a lot of opportunity to interact in interesting ways." Surprisingly enough DC was okay with them axing The Joker with Hill saying "It was never a case of them saying: 'you can't kill him,' it was more about whether we were only killing him for shock value." A stipulation on him dying though was it had to be his own downfall with it being clear that Batman did not kill him.

One of the more intriguing things from the sit down was when Hill was asked if Arkham City was the middle act of a larger franchise. As you remember last year Video Game Awards when accepting the award for Character of the Year The Joker was holding a script for Batman: Arkham World. Rocksteady quickly put the rumor to rest after sites ran with the info as it being a tease for the next game. When addressing the question of Arkham City being a middle act Hill didn't say much, but didn't didn't close the door on it either saying, "Er... Could be. It depends..."

For the rest of the interview where Hill talks about possible secrets that might not have been found yet in the game click HERE

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