It’s June! Summer! Batman!
The game gamers and comic fans alike have been waiting for releases on June 23rd. Rocksteady, the studio behind Batman: Arkham Knight aren’t going to make waiting easy. Today they’ve released a special trailer showcasing the pre-order Harley Quinn content.
Harley gets her own unique skill set complete with her own version of the game’s “detective vision” and takedowns. In addition, her content will also have story missions that add a sliver to the game’s narrative. The current DC Comics digital weekly prequel series Batman: Arkham Knight has seen the character scar Lucius Fox and align herself with the Penguin to invade Wayne Enterprises, if her in-game story missions have anything to do with this remain to be seen.
The Harley Quinn DLC pack is available free for anyone who pre-orders Batman: Arkham Knight from any retailer. Various other bonuses are available depending on which retailer you choose to order from, such as Gamestop offering the exclusive Red Hood pack.
With all the early bonus content and the optional $40 season pass add-ons, Arkham Knight is looking to pour a gallon of comic goodness into the shot glass of our attention spans. So set aside some time away from loved ones to play it.
Batman: Arkham Knight launches worldwide on June 23, 2015 for the Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
Fights and free comics weren’t the only things dropped Saturday night. WB Games, who are set to release the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight game responded to fan and media criticism about their recently announced season pass option by giving away a few more details on their forums.
We now know a few more things about what your $40 will get you:
Batgirl: A Matter of Family
An all new prequel story expansion in an entirely new location where you play as Batgirl for the very first time in the Arkham series – check out the first render of Batgirl.
The Season of Infamy
Play as Batman in all new story missions featuring legendary super-villains invading Gotham City, with new story arcs, missions and gameplay features.
Gotham City Stories
Play as Batman’s key allies in narrative missions extending their storylines, from both before and after the events in Batman: Arkham Knight.
Legendary Batmobiles with Themed Tracks
Drive the most iconic Batmobiles from Batman’s 75-year history, on custom-built race tracks, each themed to that Batmobile’s specific era. Every Batmobile will be drivable across every race track.
Crimefighter Challenge Maps
Engage in a series of new challenge maps utilizing the unique play styles of Batman and his allies.
Character Skins
A variety of skins from across the eras for Batman, Robin, Nightwing and Catwoman.
No word on how the content will be spread out over the 6 month period they previously announced. The game’s developer, Rocksteady, did mention that they’re still working on developing even more add-on for the game which will be announced as soon as the studio “ramp on” development of the content.
Batman: Arkham Knight is set to release June 23, 2105 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Here it is:
Batman: Arkham Knight developer, Rocksteady are ending their Arkham series with a nuke. Today’s trailer shows off a new feature for the series. This time around players will have the ability to switch between characters from the Bat-family. The trailer shows Nightwing and Robin executing co-op attacks on enemies. Previously these characters have only appeared as DLC for the game’s challenge maps, but now their going to be a part of the campaign narrative.
In addition comic fans will recognize the character known as Azrael. No word on if this version is Jean Paul Valley, who took over the mantle of the bat during the Knightfall storyline in the comics. So far all the marketing materials points to a bold move from the developer that may spell the demise of Batman.
Batman: Arkham Knight comes to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC June 23.
We’ll talk more about this latest trailer and the Silent Hill cancelation this evening, in the meantime what are your thoughts about this new Batman trailer?
Uh oh, big mistake here. You say the release date for Batman: Arkham Knight is 2105, which is almost a century in the future.
This is so cool Batman Arkham game player fans. Batgirl is finally, available to play as a character in Rocksteady Studios, Eidos, and Warner Brothers, and DC Comics licensed published game trilogy conclusion. “Batman:Arkham Knight”. The Bat crimefighting family is complete. You can play as Barbara Gordon’s alterego crimefighting identity “Batgirl” before her accident against “The Joker” that made her “Oracle” later on. She looks good guys I’m a huge fan of Batgirl.
Save Gotham City Bat family of heroes.
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Ha you know delays now days Ryan. Apologies when I wrote this I was still on a FCBD high. Trying to read them all in one sitting alongside a pizza was not my finest hour.
It’s great to see that WB heard the initial reactions and revealed more. It might not have been quite finalized as they would like but for the $40 price tag they were asking it definitely needed to happen. What’s still a mystery is what Batgirl we’ll see, while it looks like Barbara; the game still has Oracle in it.
I’d like to see Jason Todd and Hush story missions, I know Red Hood is GameStop DLC but I believe that’s just a challenge maps character.