Batman Arkham City

[bigmac558]

A year after the chaotic events of Batman: Arkham Asylum, both the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane and Blackgate Prison remain gutted, the former in a massive breakout launched by the inmates and the latter due to a mysterious fire. The administrator of Arkham, mayoral candidate Quincy Sharp, soon takes advantage of the Batman's defeat of the Joker at Arkham and claims the credit himself for bringing the asylum back under control. This is partially to salvage his image, in tatters after the single worst asylum riot took place at a crucial time when Sharp was trying to convince the people of Gotham City to vote for him.

This is successful, and Sharp is elected mayor of Gotham. His first act is to announce ruined Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison both unfit to house criminals. He then undertakes a bold new project: To move all the former inmates of incarceration at both places into a new housing project, Arkham City. This will be a walled-off city only for villains, and is made up of Gotham City's most notorious slums, including Crime Alley. To guard the perimeter of Arkham City the mayor does away with Arkham Asylum's old security force and replaces them with professional mercenaries from a private military organization, TYGER. Once all the criminals are trapped inside the prison city, they are told they may do as they please, but there is only one rule: Do not escape. This is supported by the TYGER mercenary forces, who enforce this policy through the liberal use of their firearms on any escaping denizens of Arkham City. Since the entire population of Arkham is made up of criminals running wild on the streets, Sharp secretly hopes they will destroy each other inside walled confinement instead of committing crimes in Gotham.

With the criminals free to do whatever they want short of escaping, bloody turf wars erupt as various villains carve up Arkham City among themselves. A mysterious figure named Dr. Hugo Strange, an Arkham psychiatrist, is placed at the helm of the project by Sharp, but little is known about his objectives or his shadowy past, and rumors soon run rampant that he is up to horrible things behind Arkham City's walls. Those who try and find out too much about Arkham or Strange one by one mysteriously vanish by night, and it is implied most end up inside the city themselves, to be torn apart by the inmates. Batman, wary of Sharp and even more so of Strange, monitors Arkham City for several months, believing that the entire thing has been a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

His pretext to infiltrate the place himself comes when Catwoman, who has no gang and is working as a freelancer in Arkham City, is captured by Two-Face and his gang. Two-Face, a new inmate, is short on men and weapons and cannot afford the costly gang wars he is already embroiled in. He thus decides to launch a massive recruitment campaign for his gang, and in order to help achieve dominance and eliminate a potential rival, announces he will publicly execute Catwoman. By doing so he also hopes that this will win him some support among the criminal populance. Given their past, Batman has no choice but to enter Arkham to save her and uncover what's really going on. With a brand-new bag of tricks, he might just survive the night.

Characters
Confirmed
■Batman/Bruce Wayne
■The Joker
■Harley Quinn
■Catwoman
■Two-Face
■The Riddler
■Mr. Freeze
■Talia al Ghul
■Poison Ivy
■Mr. Zsasz
■Alfred Pennyworth
■Dr. Hugo Strange
■Calendar Man
■Jack Ryder
■Commissioner Gordon
■Gotham City Police Department
■Quincy Sharp
■High Security Henchmen
Unconfirmed
■Bane (implied by one ending of the first)
■Scarecrow (implied by one ending of the first)
■Killer Croc (implied by one ending of the first, and Arkham City: No Cell policy)
■Ra's Al Ghul (his body vanished from the morgue and his daughter being in the game)
■Oracle (due to Alfred taking her place and supposed kidnapping)
■The Falcone Family (due to a pixel enhancement on a screenshot)
■The Penguin (due to Iceberg Lounge, ads in the shown trailers, and supposed henchmen)
■Vicki Vale (Due to another pixel enhancement of her show on another screenshot, and comics)
■Robin (Dick Grayson) (Implied in Gameinformer and the Gameplay trailer)
■Black Mask (implied by numerous references to Sionis Industries)
■Prometheus (implied in Hugo Strange profile in Batman: Arkham City website on a patient)
■Solomon Grundy (implied by character icon)
■Nightwing (implied by Japan records on the game)

I am really looking forawrd to this game. I was surprised that we didn't have a forum for it yet. Please share any info you may have, to include screenshots and videos.

[Tyger]

I'm a mercenary force! haha

Cannot wait for this game.

[matTHEw molENDa]

I didn’t see Clayface in that list. He was in the first game. Wish they would use him more interactively. Anyway I just pre-ordered my game at Best Buy. I received two challenge maps and the additional character Robin, who looks really badass by the way, as bonuses.

[Tom Hiddleston]

I loved most of the first one, but I was disappointed with a lot of the fights. I'll probably get this when it hits $30 or so.

[bigmac558]

Here is an updated list of characters.

■Batman/Bruce Wayne
■The Joker
■Harley Quinn
■Catwoman
■Two-Face
■The Riddler
■Mr. Freeze
■Talia al Ghul
■Poison Ivy
■Mr. Zsasz
■Alfred Pennyworth
■Dr. Hugo Strange
■Calendar Man
■Black Mask
■The Penguin
■Jack Ryder
■Commissioner Gordon
■Gotham City Police Department
■Quincy Sharp
■High Security Henchmen
■Ratcatcher
■Abramovici Twins
■Holly Robinson
■Robin/Tim Drake
UnconfirmedEdit
■Bane (implied by one ending of the first and Osito [his bear] is in Tyger Storage)
■Scarecrow (implied by one ending of the first)
■Killer Croc (implied by one ending of the first, and Arkham City: No Cell policy)
■Ra's Al Ghul (his body vanished from the morgue and his daughter being in the game)
■Oracle (due to Alfred taking her place and supposed kidnapping)
■The Falcone Family (due to a pixel enhancement on a screenshot)
■Vicki Vale (Due to another pixel enhancement of her show on another screenshot, and comics)
■Prometheus (implied in Hugo Strange profile in Batman: Arkham City website on a patient)
■Solomon Grundy (implied by character icon)
■Maxie Zeus (Olympus Structure and Gladiator-like head on eviction paper seen in Catwoman trailer)
■Mad Hatter (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
■Jenny Duff (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
■The Walrus (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
■Tweedledee (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
■Tweedledum (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
■Black Canary (Seen in IGN trailer)
■The Maroni Family (Name seen in Penguin screenshot)
■The Broker (Seen in story issue #2 of comics)
■Dick Grayson (Nightwing) (Flying Graysons poster and leaked profile shot)
■Aaron Cash (Seen in story issue #3 of comics)
■Amadeus Arkham (Seen in story issue #3 of comics)

[The_Donster]

So is anyone playing this game on 360? Loving it so far. Please make sure to use spoiler tags. Just in case some folks, like me, haven't beaten the game.

[un4gvn94538]

Originally Posted by The_Donster

So is anyone playing this game on 360? Loving it so far. Please make sure to use spoiler tags. Just in case some folks, like me, haven't beaten the game.

Picked it up yesterday with a free copy of Batman AA GOTY . Never played it on 360 yet so I'm playing it first before A. City