Monolith is requesting help from users to stamp out a tricky bug that's apparently erasing Gotham City Impostors stats. The glitch is most likely to strike when updating from the trial version to the full game, but that's not always the case, so developer has requested information if you've run into the problem.
Not even Monolith Productions, the developer behind the newly-released Gotham City Impostors, would deny it's a bizarre concept. In an interview, lead game designer Craig Hubbard says he understands the skepticism surrounding it, and relates how the team pitched such an offbeat game.
After being Bat-delayed mere days before its launch in January, F.E.A.R. creator Monolith's multi-Bat-player first-Bat-person Bat-shooter Gotham City Impostors is now lined up for a downloadable release next week.
Monolith Productions' odd Batman-themed first person shooter has been given a last-minute delay. Originally scheduled to release on PC, Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network next week, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that Gotham City Imposters will be coming in February.
No reason was given for the delay.
When I first heard of Gotham City Impostors, I wasn't sure what to think. Even casual fans of Batman had to recognize that "madcap multiplayer shooter" are three words that don't belong anywhere near the franchise. I bristled, wondering if Warner Bros was simply attempting to exploit a popular property to help sell an otherwise run-of-the-mill downloadable shooter.
I'm a big enough man to admit when I'm wrong. Though I'm still not sure the Dark Knight motif quite fits, the taste I received during the beta convinced me it's a game that stands on its own merits. Impostors is a wildly fun multiplayer title with a clever idea or two, and personality to spare.
Gotham City Impostors is getting ready to supplement its PC beta with console versions, and has released a new trailer in celebration. This one highlights the various bits of deadly (and un-Batman-like) weaponry in the game, from guns and explosives to melee axes. An accompanying announcement teases the game's console beta "soon."
The odd Batman-inspired multiplayer shooter, Gotham City Imposters, will be available on January 10th. The downloadable title will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC.
For the uniniated, Gotham City Imposters is a 6v6 online FPS where "Imposters," inspired by the Batman and Joker decide to go to war with each other. Unlike the stoic hero of the series, you'll be able to carry guns and, presumably, kill people.
Gotham City Impostors is more playful take on the city of Batman. The multiplayer-focused shooter isn't taking itself too seriously, as we can see from a new animated trailer. Two friendly neighbors (with oddly sinister voices) by day turn into brutal enemies by night, and chaos ensues.
Some lucky chumps are getting early access to a hotly anticipated Batman game. No, the other one. Beta invites are going out for next year's Gotham City Impostors, the multiplayer game that bizarrely pays homage to Batman by dressing up like him and using an arsenal of guns. The first wave of invites has been sent, and the actual beta proper is supposed to start in the coming weeks.
The latest gameplay trailer for Monolith's upcoming Gotham City Impostors gives players a good look at the bevy of wacky weaponry at the disposal of fake Batmen and Jokers.
The $15, downloadable title is scheduled to launch in winter 2012 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Before that, however, the game will get a closed beta, which fake superheroes and/or villains can sign up for now.
We don't blame you for being confused when Monolith revealed a new game that included the words "Batman," "multiplayer," and "shooter" in the announcement. The entire idea sounded a little like an April Fools' gag.
Monolith, however, are welcoming the suspicion and hope to show off what Gotham City Impostors is all about in a PC-only, closed beta.
Read more: When and how you can play Gotham City Impostors »
It should be perfectly clear by now that while Gotham City Imposters pays homage to the Batman mythos, it's at a surface level at best. The idea of Batman-styled vigilantes carrying guns is strange enough, but if an all-out gang war actually were going on in Gotham, one would expect Batman to brutalize/arrest both groups, even if one is his fan club. So it's nice to see the new 'Cinematic' trailer, which implies just that.
When it was announced, Gotham City Impostors made more than a few gamers scratch their heads. "A Batman shooting game featuring multiple Batmen?" With developer Monolith at the helm, the unique competitive multiplayer FPS seems like an interesting proposition.
Though details on the game's release were scant, today Warner Bros. has revealed the game's price and general release window.
READ MORE: Date, price and video of Imposter Batmen and Jokerz »
Monolith's horror shooter series F.E.A.R. will return this fall in F.E.A.R. 3, publisher Warner Bros. has announced, handled by Fracture and F.E.A.R. console port developer Day 1 Studios.
F.E.A.R.'s silent protagonist Point Man will return as the star, though his brother Paxton Fettel will also be playable in the shooter's "divergent co-op" mode, where each have "distinctly different abilities affecting their own play as well as the experience of their co-op partner." Read more »
Warner Bros Interactive has laid off about 25 employees across its three Seattle-based studios--Monolith Productions (F.E.A.R. 2), Snowblind Studios (Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance) and Surreal Software (The Suffering)--Shacknews has learned.
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