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EDGE:  THE FUTURE OF INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT

                Article summarized from original print of “Dark City”article in EDGE #231 September 2011

                Trying to grasp the scope of the new ARKHAM CITY game, the people at EDGE say  that though Batman is just as he was in ARKHAM ASYLUM with the “…same mixture of bruising strength and human fragility”, the developers have …inverted the environment completely.  The first game’s poky madhouse has been plucked from Gotham Harbor and dropped into the rambling streets of the city proper.  Concrete replaces carpets, interiors give way to exteriors, and brilliant, focusing claustrophobia is replaced by something that feels almost like an open-world games at times.”

                That being said, this new larger scope of the games will allow Batman to explore skills that were barely used or non-existent in the first game.  Batman will now have a chance to use his forensic skills and analyze crime scenes. Not only that, moves are enhanced for Batman to deal with this new environment, like his new ability to break through flimsy walls to reach targets or the ability to take down two enemies simultaneously and most fun to use will be the ability to use the environment during a fight (rails, walls, lamp posts, etc.)

                Rockteady® has also guaranteed that this environment will be filled with Batman DNA, “…we’ve got Batman legacy stuff, obvious nods, and cameos only hardcore fans will notice. We don’t force you to find them all, but if you come across a few, it makes the world feel more real.”

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE HANDS ON!  KNIGHT MOVES

Original Article by Corey Cohen appeared in Xbox Magazine July 2011. Pictures are not part of this article but are added as illustration.

The new flight controls for gliding allow for much more control than they did in ARKHAM ASYLUM, being able not only to glide to the street below, but maneuver the glide to increase your reach for hundreds of feet over the city streets. A visit to Crime Alley will land you close to where Bruce’s parents were murdered and you can either leave flowers (accompanied by stirring score) or pick up an audio diary Hugo Strange left your Batman in an effort to mess with his mind.

A new improvement to the Batman’s arsenal will be the range of the GRAPPLE GUN that now allows you to latch to objects more than 150 ft away. The grapple will not only allow you to latch to buildings but if you get tired of gliding around the city you can always grapple onto the skids of a Tyger police chopper and use it like a public bus to take you around.

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