Gotham Knights Footage Teases a Batfamily Brawl

The subsequent online game out of Gotham City is lacking its former hero, on the worse attainable time. So it’s in all probability for the perfect Bruce Wayne left some very trusty pals behind—as a result of they’re going to wish one another to go up in opposition to a acquainted menace from DC’s comics.

Following its reveal on the DC Fandome occasion final 12 months, Warner Bros. Montreal—the studio behind the Arkham prequel spinoff sport, Arkham Origins—returned this 12 months to provide us an up to date take a look at what to anticipate from Gotham Knights, as gamers hop between 4 playable members of the Batfamily. Although not explicitly a continuation of the story seen within the Arkham video games, Knights is about in a world shortly after the seeming loss of life of Batman, killed in a blast that additionally took out his Batcave. Dick Grayson’s Nightwing, Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl, Tim Drake’s Robin, and Jason Todd’s Red Hood could have lots to cope with stepping as much as defend Gotham within the wake of Bruce’s seeming loss of life, so it’s a superb job you’ve obtained 4 occasions the heroes to mess around with.

As the brand new trailer exhibits, Dick, Babs, Tim, and Jason could have loads of villains to face, from members of Batman’s Rogue’s Gallery seeking to capitalize on the Dark Knight’s loss of life (just like the Penguin, glimpsed within the trailer), to a sinister new menace: The Court of Owls. The villainous cult was one of many first rumors circling the subsequent Arkham sport nicely earlier than Gotham Knights was formally unveiled final 12 months. Introduced by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo throughout the 2011 New 52 Batman run, the Court is a secret conglomerate of among the oldest households to have ever lived in Gotham, working beneath the town’s floor—and beneath white owl masks. They use their cash and affect to keep up a grip over Gotham at giant and struck in opposition to Batman with a military of brokers referred to as Talons—loads of who we get to see right here, too—assassins enhanced with a robust system to provide them regenerative talents and elevated energy and reflexes. Suffice to say, the Bat household’s going to have a hell of a time stepping as much as the plate.

Gotham Knights is about to launch in 2022.

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