Sadly, The Batman Is not Including a Recreation 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 continuous with Batman: Arkham Shadow, it seems 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 growth as a part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s intention to ascertain 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) had been offered. However earlier than people might get too excited, James Gunn stepped in on Threads to say there was “no true to this in any way.” Darn.

Nonetheless, setting apart Gunn’s rumor–quashing phrase, a recreation centered on this particular Batman could 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 way in which again in 2010. Past that, his numerous recreation franchises prior to now 15 years, just like the Arkham, Lego, and Telltale collection, had been all unique tales that pulled from completely different elements 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 performed usually effectively in the previous few years, and with the fitting group, a recreation primarily based on this particular Batman could possibly be cool. However such a title was within the works, we’d must 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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