Batman: Arkham Origins

"Riddle me this, Riddle me that, Who's afraid of the big black bat?" - Riddler

     In my last blog I touched on the "Affleck Riots" or the uproar of people being really, really mad that Ben "Daredevil" Affleck was chosen to be Batman.  While I don't share the same maddening anger and involuntary urges to throw darts at the closest Affleck poster. As I think there are quite enough people doing that already.  I am however going to write about something that I think all Batman and superhero fans alike can rejoice in.  The upcoming release of the new +Batman: Arkham Origins video game.  I'm a big Batman fan and I've played all of the +Batman:Arkham Games.  The last game released was +Batman: Arkham City, which had a lot of the DLC updates that provided tons of extra content.  The new +Batman: Arkham Origins video game, according to recent news is coming with a ton of DLC content on the release date.

Deathstroke The Terminator

     I go to +GameTrailers for most of my video game news and updates.  For the most part the news is the same on +Giant Bomb and +IGN.  With a new "uneven multiplayer" feature, pitting two heroes against a group of four or five thugs.  This looks to be the most ambitious Batman game in the Arkham video game franchise.  What's known so far about this new game is that it's a prequel to the first two games.  One of the main points is that Batman is being introduced to the villains that he'll be fighting, repeatedly, over his crime fighting career.

     One of the highlighted villians is "+Deathstroke  the Terminator".  Not many people outside of the comic book kingdom, are aware that Deathstroke at one point and time was called "The Terminator", and I don't mean the one govenator +Arnold Schwarzenegger played back in his youth.  He is only one of ten assassins gunning for The Batman during a one night fight for his life.  I don't want to give away too many details of the storyline just in case you've been trying to avoid any big spoilers.  What I expect is a good look at the early renditions of classic Batman characters.  I will say that I expect the Christopher Nolan movies to have an influence in the design of the characters.  Actually to be perfectly honest I expect it, with the release of the Bane character design for the game.  You can see the influence of the Bane design from The Dark Knight Rises movie.  However, there are some elements like the Batplane that are influenced by real world design.  I'm sure we'll get to see more as the official release date gets closer.  Recently the collectors edition of the game has been announced and comes with a lot of the usual goodies that you'd expect.  A statue, art book, and soundtrack amongst additional skins and playable characters such as Deathstroke.  While it's a different division of the same company that's working on this title.  Which many have speculated is only due to the actual original division of Rocksteady Studios that worked on the other Arkham titles is currently working on the next sequel to Arkham City.  Either way I'm sure it'll be a good edition to the already impressive line of games released for such an awesome superhero.

Hopefully, this will help people adjust to the idea that Ben Affleck will be the next Batman.  Many argue that he won't do a good job, but Ben tends to differ...

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