Everyone is hyped for "Batman: Arkham Knight" and Rocksteady is ready to surpass everyone's expectations by doing what is unexpected by probably killing the Batman off.
Batman is called the "Dark Knight", but he's not the "Arkham Knight". That name belongs to an original character Rocksteady has created in cooperation with DC as the antagonist of Batman in this game.
VG247 shared their experience when they got to see the "Arkham Knight" at the GDC demo of "Batman: Arkham Knight":
"I got to see this guy very briefly when he appeared at the end of the live demo press were shown behind closed doors at GDC. He leaped at Batman from offscreen as our hero was walking out a door, knocking him down and point a gun at his head. The demo faded to black, and a gunshot rang out."
It's a huge hint that Batman would probably die by the end of the game similar to the end of "Dark Knight Rises" whether it turns out that he lives in the or not remains to be seen.
Rocksteady producer, Dax Ginn called the opportunity to make an original character in the Batman universe "terrifying," but the folks at the studio are relishing the chance to hopefully make a mark on the Batman property that lasts beyond the tail of the games themselves.
"The opportunity is exciting, but the expectation [from fans] is off the scale," Ginn told me in a one-on-one after the session when I probed him about crafting this Arkham Knight. "That's why working with DC is so awesome for us, because those guys are so experienced, and it's obviously something they do a lot of.
"So when the idea was on the table for us to develop our own character and introduce that into Batman's world, there was so much energy and excitement around it at Rocksteady - but we really were conscious of the value of the collaboration creatively we have with DC to make sure the gameplay role the Arkham Knight has is really reflected in his appearance and his outlook and his perspective.
"That's not an opportunity that comes along very often, and I think we totally nailed it with this guy."
