Batmobile Staying in the Garage for Arkham City

Sixties Spidey

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Disappointing, but at least understandable. Hopefully there will be another Batman game where I will chase the Joker in my Batmobile at Mach 10 through the streets of Gotham City while trying to escape his henchmen.

What?! I can dream, right?
 

andreas3K

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"combining the cape and grapnel for a kind of slingshot glide"
A bit like Just Cause 2, eh? Sounds sweet.

I don't really care that they dropped the Batmobile. The driving would probably have sucked anyway.
 

Saltyk

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Guhungus said:
Scrumpmonkey said:
At least there won't be a show-horned in driving section. Hopefully this means the core gameplay will be focused and tight.
My thoughts exactly.

I rather Rocksteady focus on what will work than experiment and fail on something they're not fully confident in implementing... yet.
Agreed. While driving the Batmobile around Gotham sounds like a Bat-nerds wet dream, and I'll admit it would be pretty cool, I'd rather they create a great game than a solid game with a crappy driving section that everyone hates. Especially, if it wouldn't fit in the story. I'm curious if this was a design choice or if this was made because they couldn't program it properly.

In any event, at least we can avoid collecting Bat-tokens for some unknown reason as we race through the city. For a little longer anyway.
 

8bitmaster

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I kinda figured that you wouldn't. I was expecting car chase missions or stuff like that, but not for normal sneaking style gameplay.
 

OceanRunner

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The Batmobile and Batplane only appeared in Arkham Assylum for Batman to get items from. Maybe they'll make similar appearances in this.
 

Danpascooch

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What the hell guys!? What the f--k did we do to deserve getting stuck with the BatUnicycle!?
 

SnipErlite

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I'm disappointed, but it was probably for the best. Rocksteady know what they're doing.

DLC maybe? :p
 

Mr.Pandah

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They do what they gotta do. If it don't fit, don't put it in. Simple as that and its good to see a company realize that they don't need a gimmick like the Batmobile.
 

Gildan Bladeborn

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So not complaining, the car and plane are in the grand scheme of things rather superfluous to the experience of being Batman - when you boil it down those are just a means of transportation; if the action is taking place inside a walled in section of Arkham City then I really don't see why you'd even need those.

The way I look at it, tacking driving segments on to a game that already has a zip-line, grapnel, and cape gliding is like giving Spider-Man a car to drive around: Why the hell would you ever use that car when you could be web-slinging your way across the city instead? Unless the core mechanics of a title revolve around driving, it generally just ends up being a chore you perform to get to the next bit where you can actually do the stuff you're playing the game for, the "fun" bits which almost invariably require you to be on foot. And considering how damn entertaining Batman's means of transportation when he's on foot are, I really can't see driving segments being anything but a detraction from the core experience (no matter how much nerd glee you might derive from driving the Batmobile around).
 

Jharry5

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I'm glad they decided against putting it in. I can't imagine how it'd fit.

I just hope this doesn't mean that the world will be too small because of this though...
 

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Driving around you'd be bound into crashing and killing some meanies.
I just hope that these meanies would keep appearing in areas even after you clear it.
 

mrm5561

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thank god. putting the batmobile in the game would have been horrible for two reasons. 1 you wouldnt be able to run over people cause that dc wouldnt want to have batman kill. 2 it would get boring cause you have to keep backtracking to find your car.