Warner Bros. Games and DC Launch Gotham Knights

[TheLostSwede]

Warner Bros. Games and DC today announced that Gotham Knights, the new open-world, third-person action RPG (role-playing game), is now available for PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X|S and PC and is playable either solo or as a two-player online cooperative (co-op) experience.

Developed by Warner Bros. Games Montréal, Gotham Knights features Batman Family characters - Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin - a new guard of highly trained DC Super Heroes who must rise up as the protectors of an increasingly vulnerable Gotham City in the wake of Batman's death. Introducing an original story set in DC's Batman Universe, players must solve mysteries that connect the darkest chapters in the city's history, while engaging in epic confrontations and encounters with notorious DC Super-Villains, such as the cold-blooded Mr. Freeze, mastermind criminal influencer Harley Quinn, shape-shifting colossus Clayface and the mysterious Court of Owls, a secret society made up of Gotham City's wealthiest families.



"We are thrilled to launch Gotham Knights and return players to Gotham City to play as the iconic DC Super Heroes Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin," said David Haddad, President, Warner Bros. Games. "Our development team at Warner Bros. Games Montréal has created a rich, multi-layered story, coupled with compelling gameplay and iconic villains for fans to engage with."

"We're honored to be able to tell a new story centered around our four heroes - Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin," said Patrick Redding, Creative Director, Warner Bros. Games Montréal. "Gotham Knights is the culmination of the hard work by the entire Warner Bros. Games Montréal team to deliver a unique gameplay experience that transports players into the roles of these characters, whether playing solo or with a friend in online co-op and bring to life some of the most infamous DC Super-Villains in new ways. We're thrilled to finally share Gotham Knights with fans around the world."

In Gotham Knights, players will patrol the dark streets of five distinct boroughs in a dynamic, interactive Gotham City using a variety of traversal abilities and heroic combat moves, as well as the iconic Batcycle. As Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin progress, their distinctive gameplay skills will evolve, along with an increasing arsenal of gadgets, gear and abilities. Each member of the Batman Family is also able to unlock special co-op take-downs and abilities such as healing or buffing teammates. Players will be able to stop crimes and explore the open-world in untethered two player online co-op. Experience, loot and story progression will carry over for the host, so players can play through the game entirely in single player or co-op mode or choose to have a friend join their session periodically.

The four playable heroes in Gotham Knights include:

• Batgirl, also known as Barbara Gordon, is a highly trained fighter and expert computer coder and hacker who wields a tonfa along with a fierce combination of kickboxing, capoeira and jiu-jitsu.
• Dick Grayson is Nightwing, whose unique combat style combines agility and strength. Nightwing uses his escrima sticks and wrist darts, as well as his traversal abilities which include parkour, grappling and his glider, the Flying Trapeze.
• Red Hood, formerly known as Jason Todd, is an expert marksman and hard-hitting, hand-to-hand fighter who has gained the ability to harness mystical powers that aid him in battle and allow him to propel his body through the air to traverse the city.
• Robin is Tim Drake, a master with his collapsible quarterstaff and a specialist in stealth techniques and deductive reasoning. Using technology from the Justice League satellite, Robin has the unique ability to teleport himself across the battlefield to take out enemies quickly and efficiently.

The Gotham Knights Standard Edition is available for $69.99 (SRP). The Gotham Knights Deluxe Edition is available for $89.99 (SRP), including the base game and Visionary Pack downloadable content (DLC) with exclusive gear, cosmetics, Beyond Suitstyle character skins inspired by the Batman Beyond animated series and more. The Gotham Knights Collector's Edition is available for $299.99 (SRP), including the Deluxe Edition, augmented reality collectable pin, 16-page media book, exclusive Gotham City map, four-character statue diorama and more.

Additionally, players can also look forward to the upcoming Heroic Assault mode, a new co-op experience that will support up to four gamers and will be available as a free update for all Gotham Knights owners on Nov. 29. This standalone mode is separate from main story campaign and provides a dedicated arena-like environment with specific objectives to complete and enemies to defeat on each floor, with 30 action-packed floors in total.

Fans can read more about the Gotham Knights backstory in DC's official six issue prequel series Batman: Gotham Knights - Gilded City. Written by Gotham Knights story consultant Evan Narcisse with art by ABEL, the series debuts Oct. 25. Each physical issue will include a code for a redeemable in-game item, and issue No. 1 will include a code for the exclusive BOSO22 Batcycle skin. Subscribers to the DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription platform will also receive each issue day and date with its print counterpart and is the only digital path to receiving the in-game items. The platform includes a wide-ranging selection of stories featuring all of the Gotham Knights videogame characters. For more information, fans can check out DCUniverseInfinite.com. Please note, DC UNIVERSE INFINITE is not intended for children and is not available in all countries.

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[aQi]

Its been a while and about time to experience another batman game. Seriously it was needed.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Garbage release. Outside of the numberous bugs and 30 FPS issues, the game is a barren wasteland. Plenty of users online have already showed pictures and video showing knights looking like a PS3 era game, and that's an insult to arkham city/asylum/origins.

It's yet another title that is missing 90% of the effort of previous titles in the series, like saints row, battlefield, or halo.

 

[cvaldes]

Garbage release. Outside of the numberous bugs and 30 FPS issues, the game is a barren wasteland. Plenty of users online have already showed pictures and video showing knights looking like a PS3 era game, and that's an insult to arkham city/asylum/origins.

It's yet another title that is missing 90% of the effort of previous titles in the series, like saints row, battlefield, or halo.

Best to wait a couple of weeks. Sci-fi/fantasy and comics related releases always debut well (just like movies) because there's a certain number of customers that will buy in regardless.

If you wait a month to see how many people are streaming it on Twitch, that'll probably be a better indicator of how good the game really is.

Note that you can have relatively unmemorable graphics but still have great gameplay. And vice versa.

 

[ZoneDymo]

watch Digital Foundry's vid on this....game and you will be turned off immediately, and then to think Intel tried to spice of their A750/A770 sales by including this pile of garbage....

 

[kapone32]

I played about 10 minutes today before I took advantage of the Nice weather (for this time of the Year) to Barbq some burgers and sausages. What I like about the Game so far is that at 4K I am getting 118 FPS average and the Graphics are beautiful for a Game and the story seems interesting. In terms of Comic Book Games the story seems better than Guardians but the controls are not as kinetic. The World is pretty huge but the thing is this is a WB Game and you can see the potential for wasteful items being sold with the Game.

 

[TriCyclops]

It's hardly a game...the cutscenes are too long and the console version runs 30fps even on my Xbox Series X. So not really impressed with this.

 

[Makaveli]

After watching a few twitch streams of game play. The game feels much slower than pervious batman games and the city seems empty with no life.

Fighting is also different and not as responsive.

Going to wait abit so see if I will pick it up.

 

[cvaldes]

Dark Side Of Gaming previously reported that a review copy of the PC version suffers from major performance issues while driving (they used a 4090 FE @ 1080p Ultra). These problems persisted even as they reduced quality to Low settings and happened at the same places in the game indicating that this title has a lot of bad code.

The game is locked at 30 fps on consoles (PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) and DSOG says that the game is not optimized for play above 30 fps.

I haven't played it myself and I certainly wouldn't pay full retail. I might consider picking it up if it drops to $10 or less and it has an overall rating of Very Good or higher after a period of months on Steam. Or I could simply wait for another comic book game title; there's always one around the corner and several more in active development.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Got arkham knight included with a 980 purchase actually pretty fun game, bat mobile is

 

[neatfeatguy]

Hi,
Got arkham knight included with a 980 purchase actually pretty fun game, bat mobile is

I liked the Batman games, thought they were pretty solid. I never did play Arkham Knight, though, since it came out so buggy with big performance issues. I think they were fixed (mostly), but I still never played it....game is sitting in my stack of unopened games, still. I should get around to playing it someday. Anyway, I hear the bat tank aspect of the game is stupid and there's a bit of driving that feels out of place, so I'm not in any hurry to taint my views of the enjoyment I had from the other Arkham games.

I glanced over a couple reviews of Gotham Knights and they paint some of the gameplay as kind of lackluster, but they find the game mostly enjoyable. I may pick up a copy sometime in the future when it's not priced so high.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Best to wait a couple of weeks. Sci-fi/fantasy and comics related releases always debut well (just like movies) because there's a certain number of customers that will buy in regardless.

If you wait a month to see how many people are streaming it on Twitch, that'll probably be a better indicator of how good the game really is.

Note that you can have relatively unmemorable graphics but still have great gameplay. And vice versa.

Yeah, this game has neither. Boring dull brown graphics and the gameplay is shallow compared to what came before. Much like saints row, battlefield, halo, and CoD, they got lazy/incompetent.