New job advertisements reveal Rocksteady is engaged on an open world brawler, with a hearsay suggesting it’s based mostly on the Batman Beyond cartoon.
After a complete wasted decade, during which a lot of the founding members left the corporate and the one recreation the studio made was the disastrous Suicide Squad, it’s honest to say that developer Rocksteady’s repute isn’t what it as soon as was.
Given the present norms of the trade, many anxious that the studio would face closure however fortunately that hasn’t been the primary selection of proprietor Warner Bros. Rocksteady did endure layoffs however they’re identified to be engaged on a brand new recreation, one that’s single-player and allegedly Batman-related.
However, whether or not it’s a brand new recreation within the Arkham collection or one thing associated to the brand new DC cinematic universe is unknown. Although a brand new hearsay means that it’s the truth is based mostly on late 90s animated collection Batman Beyond.
Known as Batman of the Future in Europe, the present was set inside the wider DC Animated Universe however featured an aged Bruce Wayne mentoring an adolescent named Terry McGinnis, who turns into the brand new high-tech Batman.
The unique present gained a number of awards on the time and has a really distinctive artwork fashion and a totally new set of villains, so it’s unusual that, aside from comics, it’s by no means been tailored into another medium – past a horrible, low price range scrolling beat ‘em-up in 2000.
There have been a number of rumours of a film model (the cancelled Batgirl movie appeared to take a number of cues from the collection, together with Michael Keaton as an older Bruce Wayne) and a online game adaptation from Gotham Knights maker WB Games Montréal.
Warner Bros. have explored after which cancelled a number of completely different superhero video games over time, so even when this hearsay, from leaker Lunatic Ignus, is true there’s no assure the sport will ever be completed.
For the document although, he means that the sport will adapt the final premise however not the artwork fashion. It’s additionally claimed the sport can be a PlayStation 5 unique, within the method of the Spider-Man video games.
Whether that’s true stays to be seen however Rocksteady undoubtedly is engaged on a brand new single-player recreation and based mostly on their most up-to-date job advertisements it’s not simply the rumoured director’s reduce of Hogwarts Legacy.
The ad for a Game Director calls for somebody that has ‘expertise throughout a number of genres, significantly third individual motion, melee brawlers, and open world traversal video games.’
So except the scholars of Hogwarts have taken to utilizing fists as a substitute of wands that basically does sound like a brand new Batman recreation.
Whether it’s Batman Beyond is unattainable to inform however Rocksteady has featured the costume, and several other different components from the DC Animated Universe, of their earlier video games, so we all know they’re followers – or no less than a few of them have been earlier than the insanity of Suicide Squad tore the corporate aside.
Beyond the uncertainty of the hearsay although the opposite drawback is that, it doesn’t matter what they’re engaged on, they’ve solely simply began, so it’ll be fortunate to be launched earlier than 2030.
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