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Rocksteady Working on Silver Age Batman Prequel?
I have serious doubts about the veracity of this one, but apparently an article in Variety today claims that Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the Arkham franchise of Batman games, is working on a prequel project that’s set before Batman ever met the Joker.
The article says that the title will be “highly stylized,” and will be “based on the Silver Age of DC’s comic books from the 1950s when the Caped Crusader teamed with other heroes like Superman and founded the Justice League of America.” The piece says that the studio will shoot for a 2014 release for the game at the earliest.
The rationale for the supposed game, it seems, are the efforts on Warner Brothers’ part to create a “Justice League” movie—which makes sense given the monstrous success that Marvel’s Avengers flick proved to be this summer. Apparently such a movie won’t happen until 2015, so they’re trying to get folks into the idea of the Justice League as a concept to ramp up to a big screen blockbuster. Part of that effort is the Justice League fighting game that was announced last month–which has a definitively un-Silver Age feel to it. And, of course, let’s not forget LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
Now, there are no sources cited in this article whatsoever, so I’d take it all with a grain of salt. As awesome as that sounds, I have some severe doubts that Rocksteady would change things up so much as to focus on the Silver Age, not to mention an ensemble-type game that would include so many other heroes. I would guess that maybe Warner Brothers is thinking about ways to make a game like this happen, but more likely it would go to another studio…right? I just don’t know…I mean, even if they wanted to make a Justice League game, why would they take it back to the Silver Age? Again, I’d be all for it…but it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that the gritty and noir-ish Arkham developers would want to go for, especially considering that the Silver Age-themed Batman: Brave and the Bold was canned after three seasons of really excellent cartoons.
I don’t know. What do you think about this? Is it all just a load of hooey? Or is it the real deal?
Via Variety
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If they want it to be about the Justice League, then just base it around the Justice League. They don’t need to go back to the Silver Age, or even make this a prequel at all. If anything, they might as well base it around the Justice League cartoon. At least have the same characters with the same voice actors. That’s one of the things I really love about the Arkham games. Dat voice cast.
This game would still be amazing; however i really not like when games make prequels because there is always controversy with the series. I do not think i have to remind anyone of the disaster that was known as Halo: Reach. If anything i think they should just continue onto Gotham which was hinted at in Arkham City. If they were to do a prequel sort of deal i think it would be best to limit it down to a few flashbacks.