![]() Temple of Geek is an Amazon Affiliate and receives a commission on qualifying purchases. Gotham Knights will release worldwide on October 25, 2022, on PS5, Xbox Series S/ X, and PC.Ĭheck out the Batgirl gameplay trailer, which made its debut at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and be sure to check back with Temple of Geek for more convention coverage! We also learned that there will be unique gear per character, that players can play through the whole game solo, and that there is high re-playability value after finishing the main story. Who are they comparing themselves to? Who are they opposing themselves against? And so we wanted to look at a few different archetypes of Batman villains that are definitely part of the kind of core group of recognizable blue-chip villains, and then throw them into disarray and show how they evolve as a result of that.” Gotham City Skyline t’s always been the case that Batman has a special relationship with his adversaries, and if you take Batman out of the picture, it does create a vacuum, it creates an internal vacuum, how are they motivated?. “ Our approach in going into villains was to say, if we’re already looking at how Batman’s death affects the heroes that are closest to him and the city, it should also be: let’s look at the villains whose relationship with Batman would cause them to be forced to redefine themselves by his absence. ![]() I asked Gotham Knights‘ creative director Patrick Redding how the team narrows down which villains get to be in the game and which ones get cut, to which he said: We’re making a game with four main characters and we did everything custom for all of them so we really wanted to be able to exploit those differences to offer a really unique experience per character.” Gotham Knights’ creative director: Patrick Redding interview ut our intent with all four characters was really just to give you very four distinct personalities and distinct playstyles. ![]() When asked how they settled on Jason and Tim rather than Stephanie and Damien (different iterations of the Batgirl and Robin characters, respectively), narrative director Ann Lemay said: Gotham Knights features four playable heroes: Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin (Tim Drake). Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) America Young and Ann Lemay interviews According to creative director Wilson Mui, the game will contain fan-favorite members of the Bat-family’s rogue’s gallery, both returning from older games and some new appearances. The Gotham Knights reveal trailer shows the game’s main antagonists will be the Court of Owls, created by heavyweight comics duo Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, the former of which consulted on the game’s depiction of the legendary villains. Not because Batman isn’t a fun challenge to take on. It was liberating, narrative director Ann Lemay tells Inverse. Christopher Sean and Wilson Mui interviews That may sound like the premise for a disappointing game, but the team behind Gotham Knights says it freed them up to try some new and exciting things by focusing on the less-celebrated members of the Bat-family. Included in these interviews are voice actors America Young (Batgirl/ Barbara Gordon) and Christopher Sean (Nightwing/ Dick Grayson), narrative director Ann Lemay, cinematic director Wilson Mui, and creative director Patrick Redding. Nightwing and Red Hood fighting the Court of Owls. Montreal’s upcoming game, Gotham Knights. At the convention, we were able to sit down at a roundtable interview session with some of the cast and developers of Warner Bros. It’s four games in one.After an extended hiatus, the legendary San Diego Comic-Con finally returns to Harbor Drive. But because we wanted that to be part of the experience - and because gameplay and animation were doing the same thing on their side with unique animation sets and unique gameplay per character - you had to rise to the occasion. “Every character gets custom lines per level per cinematic, and they each get a character arc with multiple cinematics in it,” Lemay says. And who you’re playing as changes the experience dramatically. Since all four characters are playable, that means every single level and cutscene can be played as Nightwing, Red Hood, Robin, and Batgirl. “The ultimate goal is for all of you to play the game four times over.”Īside from simply missing Bruce Wayne, the biggest challenge in creating Gotham Knights was in trying to make four games in one, as both Mui and Lemay explain. “It’s not tied to the Batman games that we’ve seen,” he says. Gotham Knights cinematic director Wilson Mui tells Inverse that making a game without Batman has “been a challenge,” even if it’s not a direct sequel to the Arkham series. And like I hope it’s reflected in the work that everyone sees it.” We came to this very excited and very enthused about it. “We had writers going, I want to write this one. “These are all characters my team loves,” Lemay adds. Instead of focusing on just Batman, Gotham Knights lets you play as one of four other superheroes: Nightwing, Red Hood, Robin, and Batgirl.
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