http://www.gamefocus.ca/news/19668.html

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this is not the next arkham game I expected, the one I heard about was gonna feature the justice league...however, this I really want. This game is gonna be like year one. GCPD will hassle the fk outta bats and Jim Gordon will be skeptical about him. Also heard we'll see a fitter younger penguin, deathstroke and the map is twice the size of arkham city

apparently they're using the basic design of arkham city and reskinning it with many of its features like the steelworks, the bowery, amusement mile and the iceberg lounge brought back to former glory. the other side will be new arkham and wilt be the unseen as of now area. sadly, rocksteady aren't making this title, its wb Montreal but I'm not worried as wbm are using many of rocksteady's tools like the unreal engine

Further details have emerged about Batman: Arkham Origins. Notably that its main antagonist is Black Mask, who orchestrates a city-wide manhunt for Batman among Gotham's outlaw population. Black Mask. The game world will be approximately twice as big as it was in Arkham City. The north half of Origins' map will be similar to the setting of Arkham City, although it won't have giant prison walls surrounding it and Amusement Mile won't be flooded. There will also be more Christmas decorations

giving it a sort of Batman Returns vibe. The south half of the map will be New Gotham, which is described as a classier part of town with more skyscr*pers. Given the larger setting, players will be able to move about faster thanks to the Batwing offering a mode of fast travel. Players will need to dismantle hacked towers that emit jamming signals though before they can fly to certain regions.

While most of Batman's combat and stealth techniques will be familiar to those who played earlier games in the series, one of his new toys is the remote claw, which allows players to shoot two targets, then pull them towards one another. This will be useful for stringing foes up, bounding two of them together at once, or making large object crash into thugs. You can also use the remote claw to set up slick traps, like dangling an explosive barrel from a perch, then luring guards under it with

Arkham Origins will feature plenty of detective work including side missions where Batman has to solve cases. These can involve watching security footage where you'll have to view the same events from different angles and slow down the playbacks until you can gather some clues.

GameInformer also released more details about Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, notably that it will feature all of its console brethren's features like detective mode, stealth, and free-flow combat. While it's a primarily 2D game, you will be able to interact with items in the foreground and background like gargoyles to perch on or explosive surfaces that could use some good old bat gel to blow up