Admittedly, I’m a kind of individuals who doesn’t consider he’ll ever get bored with Batman. There’s one thing about The Darkish Knight that retains me wanting increasingly more content material (which is why we didn’t thoughts having so many Arkham video games).

He wasn’t bitten by a radioactive bat, nor does he have any superpowers of any sort, however he’s nonetheless thought-about a superhero. It’s entertaining to see the everyman play the hero and tackle that burden.

Even with the vastly totally different model of gameplay we noticed with the Batman: Arkham Knight launch, we will see the world of Batman-based video games rising stale. Not that Batman: Arkham Knight wasn’t an incredible and memorable recreation — it was — however it was the third recreation in a row set within the same-looking Gotham Metropolis.

Nevertheless it doesn’t must be that approach; there are many new instructions and concepts that might make a brand new Batman online game really feel new and, most significantly, enjoyable once more, and a few the concepts beneath might even tie into the mysterious Knightfall Protocol ending we noticed in Arkham Knight.

Listed below are six concepts we wish to see for the subsequent Batman recreation (based mostly on Batman’s historical past):

Batman Past

It has been practically 15 years because the remaining episode of the Batman Past animated sequence initially aired, and we’re pondering it’s time for a revival by way of online game. The story of Terry McGinnis as Batman was a welcomed change to the Bruce Wayne Batman we had been used to, particularly because it was set in a cyberpunk future Gotham.

With the unimaginable set items we’ve seen by way of Rocksteady within the Batman: Arkham sequence, it’s possible that the builders might create a badass futuristic Gotham that’s each plausible however feels fully new — which is one thing Batman video games want now after the trilogy. We’re not saying Rocksteady must be the builders behind a Batman Past recreation, we’re simply saying that they’d in all probability be your best option.

Blüdhaven

One other nice approach to change up the Batman video games in order that they’re not set within the Gotham metropolis we’ve already performed thrice now’s to set the brand new recreation in Blüdhaven, the city created as a backdrop for Nightwing within the Nightwing comedian sequence. Town is simply south of Gotham, and is principally the place Nightwing fights his villains. It’s stuffed with distinctive villains and corrupt officers like Gotham, however it could be a completely new space for us to discover.

It doesn’t must be a Nightwing recreation essentially, though we’d be all for that. It might be a story of Nightwing gone lacking and Bruce making an attempt to trace him down in a rescue try. Or, it might merely be a Nightwing vs. Blockbuster recreation. There’s additionally the opportunity of having Robin, Batgirl and Nightwing all shield Blüdhaven (which has been executed within the comics).

One other attention-grabbing tackle Blüdhaven might be a story following the Infinite Disaster sequence during which the Secret Society of Tremendous-Villains drops a large pile of chemical substances on the town making a chemical fallout, as Nightwing and co. attempt to discover a approach to seek for survivors within the metropolis and destroy these accountable (chemical substances + villains and lacking heroes = attention-grabbing).

Batman Western

I feel the online game world desires one other western, ever since seeing how nice Purple Useless Redemption actually was. And Batman — whether or not you wish to admit it or not — has a western really feel deeply embedded in its DNA.

Gotham is a city stuffed with lawless criminals and Batman is the sheriff who’s there to convey all of them to justice. This isn’t the primary time the concept of a cowboy Batman has been thrown round, after all.

One of many coolest issues we’ve ever seen relating to the topic got here earlier this 12 months when a Western Bats was unveiled as re-imagined by Play Arts Kai of their Batman Timeless Western Batman DC Variant determine. The thought of Batman being “timeless” is just about limitless, and Batman might simply be dropped at totally different time durations (or possibly not, given the demise of the Gaslight by Batman recreation).

Batgirl

Though we’ve gotten about an hour’s value of Batgirl play within the Arkham Knight DLC, it simply wasn’t sufficient. Actually, it’s in all probability secure to say, if something, the Batgirl DLC was a significant disappointment due to its brief size.

However Batgirl has had a major following ever since Barbara Gordon was first launched. I wouldn’t thoughts seeing a Cassandra Cain or Stephanie Brown Batgirl, both. However the occasions of Arkham Knight might arrange the newly reinvigorated Barbara Gordon as Batgirl that Gail Simone is at the moment writing. For this reason we wouldn’t be shocked if a Batgirl recreation had been subsequent.

Batman vs. Superman

The thought for a Batman vs. Superman recreation might do two issues: first, tie-in with the upcoming 2016 film (which it’s too late for that now), and secondly, setup the groundwork for a Superman sequence by Rocksteady. A Batman vs. Superman recreation might be lots of various things. It might give the person a option to play as Batman or Superman to take down the opposite (thus just about creating two video games in a single).

It might take the type of two separate video games that come out on the similar time (like a Batman version and a Superman version much like how Pokemon video games are sometimes launched). It might flip right into a co-op recreation the place Batman and Superman really staff up in opposition to Lex Luthor. Who is aware of, however it’s plain that Superman video games want a quintessential model of the superhero, and why not piggyback off of the success of Batman video games to create one.

Batman vs. Zombies

I didn’t know this till typing “Batman vs. Zombies” into Google, however there’s really a crappy Batman vs. Zombies browser recreation already. Ha! Anyway, if there are two obsessions we as a nerd tradition have, it’s Batman and zombies. However what if Gotham Metropolis had been overtaken by zombies, thus making a zombie apocalypse that left Batman to defend the town. Operating zombies over with the brand new tanky Batmobile? Rely us in!

It might comply with the controversial Batman: Gotham County Line restricted sequence written by Steve Niles during which Batman is sucked into some darkish magic and goals during which he’s pursued by zombies, and someway will get trapped in between the dwelling world and the lifeless. It follows Batman as he tries to unravel a sequence of grisly murders.

I don’t know if a zombie Batman recreation might stand as a standalone recreation, however I might undoubtedly see a type of state of affairs akin to Purple Useless Redemption and Undead Nightmare the place there’s a completely separate recreation mode.