Sowas liest man echt nicht alle Tage: bei der Entwicklung von Batman Arkham Asylum wurde wohl bereits schon die Planung für den Nachfolger begonnen. Einige werden es bereits wissen, andere wiederum nicht; in Arkham Asylum gibt es einen geheimen Raum welcher anscheinend einen Stadtplan von Arkham City enthält.

»Der Raum deutet mehr oder weniger zu Arkham City, aber um fair zu bleiben: wir haben ihn verdammt gut versteckt. Wir hatten angenommen, dass der Raum gefunden werden würde, aber nach sechs Monaten, in denen wir viele Beiträge in Foren beobachtet hatten, haben wir uns dazu entschlossen ihn über den "Game of the Year"-Podcast bekannt zu geben.« »Es wird nicht nur das sein, was die Leute mögen werden, wie Arkham Asylum nach Arkham City leitet, sondern wie die Geschichte von Arkham City neues Licht auf die Geschehnisse von Arkham Asylum werfen wird.«

YouTube Video zu Finden des Raums

Ich hab ihn wohl verpasst... :p

Quelle

A bundle of Batman: Arkham City gameplay and story details have leaked onto the net - and for fans of gadgets, it's good news.

According to blog-friendly readers of the latest edition of US mag GameInformer, the title sees Two-Face attempting to assisinate Catwoman to gain the respect of Gotham's criminal network.

Arkham City is created by former (yes, former) Mayor Quincy Sharp - who walls off part of the city's slums.

Our favourite new pearl of wisdom is that Batman himself starts the game with all of the gadgets he had when he finished Arkham Asylum - plus a trademark smoke bomb. Jolly good.

Story details are:

- Quincy Sharp is no running for mayor.
- Arkham Asylum and Black Gate Prison are unfit to hold inmates.
- Quincy Sharp buys off part of the slums and walls it off, creating Arkham City.
- Hugo Strange is in charge of Arkham City.
- Two-Face plans to execute Catwoman to gain respect of inmates.
- The overdose of venom may not be what's wrong with the Joker.

Gameplay details are:

- You are now able to counter two attacks at once.
- More puzzles
- All gadgets included in the first game are available from the start.
- Side missions now feature in the game.
- Gangs roam Arkham City, these are recorded in Batman's criminal database.
- You find people who work for Ridler to find Ridler challenges.
- Batman has his smoke bomb

Warner Bros revealed Batman: Arkham City artwork and story details last week. The game will be out in 2011.

So I got my game informer last night everyone and there's lots of good stuff in there.

I don't have any screenshots but I can say there ARE screenshots of catwoman, and two face.

Also, it mentions that Alfred is in the game and he is replacing oracle and he mentions oracle is "missing"

It also has details on the story:

It takes place 1 year after the events of AA and Quincy Sharp has taking credit for stopping the joker at arkham asylum.Sharp buys up a large swath of gotham;s slums and walls it off, stocking the perimter with highly trained armed mercenaries from an outfit named Tyger. all prisoners are transported to this new facility dubbed "arkham city" There is only one rule in AC under threat of death - Don't try to escape ( so these criminals and super villians are free to roam AC with no rules or laws.

Batman has been watching AC for months and has been looking for an excuse to get inside the prison, Recently admitted Two face needs to get respect in the city, so he decides to do that by kidnapping catwoman and publicly executing her, that's batman's cue, and that's the beginning of the game.

Ich glaube eher das wird so sein

Catwomen ist Hannah Montana und sie hat die absicht Batman um den verstand zu bringen, Two Face ist Quasi der Auftrag geber

So und nicht anders wird das sein :)

Hmm hey evtl kommt diesmal das spiel gleich mit 3d Support wäre doch cool (also mit diesen Brillen)

Thanks to some helpful internet types (Cheers, NeoGAF), we now know that the malevolent Quincy Sharp took credit for getting Arkham Asylum under control in the first game - explaining his rapid rise from humble warden to Gotham mayor.

After taking power, he declares Blackgate and Arkham unfit, and buys off a portion of the slums of Gotham. Walling off the area and calling it "Arkham City".

Sharp then contracts a mercenary group called Tyger into defending the walls. The prisoners are only given one rule: "Don't try to escape", with the penalty for doing so being death. Beyond that, they can do whatever they want within.


- Hugo Strange heads the new Arkham, though it seems like this fact is cloaked in mystery to the outside world. Those who look into him disappear.

- A year passes. Two-Face is admitted into Arkham City and he realizes he has to make a move to assert himself in the new prison lest he be eaten alive (not literally, of course). He captures Catwoman, figuring a public execution should do the trick.

- The Rocksteady team is aiming for a highly detailed city, on the level of what they did in the first game with Arkham itself.

- Gadgets can now be used during fights - the GameInformer article mentions Batman putting explosive gel on the back of one of his opponents during a brawl.

- You can now pull off multiple counterattacks at the same time.

- Many of the super villains have formed gangs, and taken control of different portions of the city.

- The team wants to push the "forensics" angle of the first game more, incorporating puzzles in them that will become more complex as the game goes on.

- Most of the key gadgets that were unlocked late in the first game are available by default (Beyond the explosive gel, the article also mentions the line launcher).

- Interrogations replace the Riddler maps of the first game.

- Batman can now taunt his enemies via a button press.

- Certain characters have optional sidestories within Arkham city (the article mentions Zsasz), that you can dig into.

- Harley has a new costume. From the article: "Instead of a nurse outfit, Harley now wears red and black pants, and a matching midriff-baring top. Her face paint has been scaled back to a much more subtle degree, and she now has a Joker tatoo on one of her hips peeking out over her waistband."

-Batman's been given a new gadget called the "broadcast analyzer". The article mentions several broadcasts Bats can listen in on, like the GCPD dispatch and Gotham FM. The main usage here has Batman tuning in to listen to a message left for him by the Joker.

-Oracle is missing, so Alfred is the one in Bruce's ear (at least at the beginning of the game)

-Rocksteady wouldn't detail their multiplayer plans.