It’s natural to compare the two – particularly as those games were partially developed by the same studio – but Gotham Knights feels significantly different. The most recent Batman video games – the Arkham series, in which players took control of the caped crusader – enjoyed enormous global success, selling more than 30m copies and earning mass critical acclaim.
By night, you fight crime and collect clues, by day, you level up and customise characters in your belfry HQ. You can control and switch between the four as you wish, venturing into the five boroughs of the open-world on your Batcycle or swinging around the city by grappling hook to take on missions. In his place, instead of one Dark Knight, we have a team of four: Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin, who must step forward as the new guard of Gotham to protect the city from petty crime, organised mobs and supervillains.
In this new cooperative game, Batman’s cause of death is a mystery to be unravelled. “Yes, he’s dead,” says creative director, Patrick Redding, breaking the news to me at the scene of the crime.
For the team behind the new video game Gotham Knights, their murder was the answer to a big question: how do you do something new with a character who has been throwing the Joker in jail for 83 years? If you’re thinking that Batman has been done to death, you’d be right.
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