The rumour mill is in full swing as www.dbuz.com takes a look at the games one could expect to be making an appearance at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.
For those who do not know, E3 is ‘the’ event of the year in the gaming industry when it comes to finding out about what another year will hold for video games. Reveals, demos, announcements, new technology, financial reports and pretty much anything various platform developers and publishers can muster up to throw at you in order to convince you to spend your hard earned money on video games will be thrown at you.
There is one major attraction however, and that is the games that will appear during the various press conferences and in the first part of this article we take a look at the possibility of the third instalments of one of the most surprisingly brilliant series to have been released.
Batman: Arkham City 2 (working title)
The last Batman game from developer, Rocksteady, ended with both a bombshell and a surprise that no one expected. The game itself was a triumph in terms of building on the original game in terms of scale, depth and overall immersion in the atmospheric and rich take on the Batman Universe.
With the engine nearly perfected and all the pieces in place to make the next Batman game, all the game’s developers have to do is get a story line and plot together and do what Naughty Dog did with Uncharted.
For those who do not know, the developer basically spent over two years developing Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and then took just a year to develop and release Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. The third instalment was another success and nowhere did it seem like the game had cut any corners.
One could expect the next Batman game to do something similar, from Rocksteady but the fact that the studio recently released the Harley’s Revenge DLC for Arkham City means that there will have been no time for them to have done anything in the way of development for any new Batman game.
The studio itself also announced that it was planning to take a break from the Batman games so as not to exhaust themselves of ideas and avoid exploiting the franchise as well.
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