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Report: Follow-up to Batman: Arkham City to be a prequel
by Steve Watts, Jul 11, 2012 3:15pm PDTGiven the blockbuster success of its earlier efforts, it shouldn't be too surprising that Rocksteady is probably working on a follow-up to Batman: Arkham City. But despite its cliffhanger ending, the next game may take a break from those plot threads and go all the way back the Silver Age of comics.
Variety (via IGN) reports that the next game from Warner Bros and Rocksteady will be a prequel, detailing Batman's first encounter with the Joker. It's said to be styled more after the 1950s era comics, when Batman would often team up with other DC superheroes. It would be due in 2014 at the earliest.
This is reportedly part of a larger effort from DC to team up their characters across different types of media, from the newly relaunched Justice League comic book to the variety of superheroes in Lego Batman 2. All of this is to lay the groundwork for a Justice League film, especially after The Avengers was a hit at the box office.
This move could be a handy way to get around the difficulties of having Joker appear again, but the Arkham series created very stylized, dark versions of the characters. Depending on just how close Rocksteady hews to Silver age silliness, it may not please fans who are used to a more brooding Batman.
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Rocksteady is reportedly working on a prequel to the Arkham series, styled after the Silver Age of comics and detailing Batman's first meeting with the Joker.
Rocksteady is reportedly working on a prequel to the Arkham series, styled after the Silver Age of comics and detailing Batman's first meeting with the Joker. : Shacknews
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Also, enough with the Joker. I don't need to see ANOTHER interpretation of Batman's first meeting with the Clown Prince of Crime, or another Joker story--much as I love him--anytime soon. There are other villains. Batman has arguably the greatest rogue's gallery in all of comic book-dom. AC teased Azrael and several others. Give me a story about them, and about how Batman copes with Joker's death, instead of another story with Joker as the keystone.
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