Thread: Rocksteady: More Batman Coming After Arkham City

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Rocksteady has confirmed that its Batman: Arkham series will continue after Arkham City.

Speaking to CVG, Rocksteady's Marketing Game Manager Dax Ginn discussed the possibility of more games.

"Man. That's really tough," Ginn said when asked about future sequels. "I mean I think as long as we're still enjoying it and as long as we feel we can contribute to the Batman universe... That's how it feels. There's some amazing stuff going on with Batman all around the world at the moment and we feel as though we're making our own little contribution in the form of the Arkham-verse. So as long as we've got stories to tell, so long as we feel we can do that and do that really well."

Ginn confirmed that the studio would like to continue working with the character while it still has ideas for him.




"There's no other character that's as awesome as Batman who's got such an incredible rogues gallery, who's got such and amazing structure for gameplay. All it takes is to give a guy an assault rifle and it changes the entire nature of combat," he said. "So you can put Batman up against 30 thugs in the street and just cane them and feel like a total don but as soon as one of them's got a shotgun you have to rethink what you do. That's really rare for a superhero and we really love using the facets of his personality to create gameplay out of that."

The studio is proud of the games so far, and pleased with the success of the franchise as it continues.

"I don't know what's going to happen in the future but right now I feel like we're in a real sweet spot with the games that we're making, the opportunities that we have," Ginn said, "so I don't really want that to change."

Batman Arkham City will hit PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Mid October The PC version will release in November.