With the release of Batman: Arkham City on the horizon, here are some early story details, which we can expect to see in the second Batman installment!
Arkham City is due to be released worldwide on October 18th 2011, on PC (windows), PS3, Xbox 360 and next year on Wii U!
The story takes place about one year after the events of the first game and builds upon the dark atmosphere established in its predecessor, Arkham Asylum.
Set inside the dangerous district at the heart of Gotham City, this highly anticipated sequel to Batman Arkham Asylum presents us with a new story that brings together a cast of classic characters including the infamous Catwoman! Brand new game play features too promise to deliver the ultimate experience in the newest Batman installment.
These additional story details, revealed by Rocksteady Studios, are generating more excitement for fans anticipating this sequel! Read on for more tantalizing info.
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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 walled-off urban district, Arkham City. This will be a 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.
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 supervillains 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 to 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 henchmen. Two-Face, a new inmate, is short on men and weapons and cannot afford the costly gang battles he is already embroiled in. In order to help achieve dominance and eliminate a potential rival, the villain announces he will publicly execute Catwoman. By doing so he also hopes that this will win him some support among the criminal populace.
With a brand-new bag of tricks, the Dark Knight might just survive the night locked up in an anarchic zone with all of the city’s worst freaks and madmen.
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