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 appears 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 determine a stronger video games presence. Very like the upcoming Penguin present, this supposed venture was “seeded” throughout the occasions of the 2022 movie, although no additional particulars (like a developer or platforms) have been supplied. However earlier than of us might get too excited, James Gunn stepped in on Threads to say there was “no true to this in any respect.” Darn.

Nonetheless, setting apart Gunn’s rumor–quashing phrase, a recreation centered on this particular Batman can be fascinating, and a famous departure from the character’s MO within the medium in fairly some time. Imagine it or not, Batman’s final real tie-in recreation was for Batman: The Courageous and the Daring all the best way again in 2010. Past that, his varied recreation franchises prior to now 15 years, just like the Arkham, Lego, and Telltale sequence, have been all unique tales that pulled from totally different elements of the character’s many years of obtainable supply materials. And a part of Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC game plan is for an interconnected multimedia universe that additionally consists of video games, and movie and TV actors reprising their roles in that medium.

Video games have been an space the place DC has accomplished typically effectively in the previous couple of years, and with the best crew, a recreation based mostly on this particular Batman might be cool. However such a title was within the works, we’d should 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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