Footage From Canceled Steampunk Batman Game Surfaces

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Ahem...Kickstart? I'd put a couple notes on that baby.

Although, I'm sure there already exists a comic where Batman meets Jack the Ripper...

Clue's in the question really...

 

[CoL0sS]

Hah. If THQ wasn't too busy publishing flashy things that get old really fast, we'd have more things like Vicotrian era Batman hunting Jack the Ripper.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

DAT CAPE.
Why can't I play this game? A steampunk Batman vs Jack the Ripper? Why wasn't that picked up?

Apparently it wasn't the 'safest' Batman game to make in terms of sales. Sad really.

 

[Canadish]

DAT CAPE.
Why can't I play this game? A steampunk Batman vs Jack the Ripper? Why wasn't that picked up?

Apparently it wasn't the 'safest' Batman game to make in terms of sales. Sad really.

Daily reminder that they made a Batman FPS, and Victorian Batman was scrapped.

Let the waves of sorrow and things that could have been wash over you.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

Batman vs Jack the Ripper?
Steampunked?
Rated M, maybe?

Why you no exist!

 

[gigastar]

That cape. I would have bought it just for that cape.

Maybe THQ wouldn't be in such financial trouble if it had focused on making good games like this instead of crap like UDraw

And crap like Homefront.

 

[Gitty101]

I hope you're reading WB and Rocksteady - this is what people want.

This would be an awesome new direction to go in for the Dark Knight. At least give us that cape as dlc for Arkham City...

 

[Something Amyss]

[quote="gigastar" post="7.352524.13975855"
And crap like Homefront.[/quote]

Especially since it looks like they're hellbent on making Homefront a franchise.

 

[supernovashadow]

Somewhere out there is an alternate universe version of me who got to play the hell out of this and I have never been more jealous.

 

[mParadox]

Oh my, o///o. That beautiful cape.

I'd play this game, I'd play it all night long. Please please Rocksteady, pick this up and make it a reality! D:

 

[Carl The Manicorn]

DAT CAPE.
Why can't I play this game? A steampunk Batman vs Jack the Ripper? Why wasn't that picked up?

Apparently it wasn't the 'safest' Batman game to make in terms of sales. Sad really.

Daily reminder that they made a Batman FPS, and Victorian Batman was scrapped.

Let the waves of sorrow and things that could have been wash over you.

they made a batman racing game
thats far less relevant ^^

They let Batman and Robin and Batman Forever happen. I know that they weren't games, but they were pretty awful (even though I secretly love them. What? Did I say that?)

 

[Sonic Doctor]

DAT CAPE.

I was thinking the same thing. It looked to be that his cape was so badass that that it had its own cape.

Though what I want to know, what was up with that other guy at 25 seconds that was also dressed the same as Batman.

I wonder if there was some kind of multiplayer with multiple "Batmen".

 

[Woodsey]

I'd like Rocksteady to pick this up and make it their next Batman game.

Because I'm hoping they don't make a third and...

Spoiler: Arkham City spoilers

... get tempted to resurrect the Joker, or anyone else who died in it.

Unless they have a truly banging idea for the next Arkham game already.

 

[D34dM4n]

cape physics, *****

 

[jibjab963]

Why can't we have anything nice? T~T
I would of bought this game no questions asked. It would of defiantly been popular if published. With a cape like that, how could it not!?

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Footage From Canceled Steampunk Batman Game Surfaces

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Here's some footage from F.3.A.R developer, Day 1 Studios', canceled Gotham by Gaslight game.

Remember those menu designs from that canceled steampunk Batman game we showed you last month? [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115238-A-Heartbreaking-Glimpse-of-a-Steampunk-Batman-Game] Well the noble scholars over at Siliconera have managed to dig up a video of the game in motion, and it is beautiful. It was beautiful.

Okay, so Batman doesn't do anything particularly Batman-esque in the video. He just walks around, stopping occasionally to brood a little. Regardless, I could watch that physics-driven cape for hours.

This footage is part of a pitch for Gotham by Gaslight, which would have appeared on PS3 and Xbox 360 between 2009 and 2010 had a publishered picked it up. In the game, a hefty-looking Batman would have attempted to track down Jack the ripper in a 19th century interpretation of Gotham. Day 1 Studios' pitched the game to THQ, who didn't bite. Unable to find a publisher to fund the game, Day 1 eventually canceled the project.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we can't have nice things.

Source: Siliconera [http://www.siliconera.com/2012/02/27/gotham-by-gaslight-video-shows-canceled-elseworlds-batman-game/]


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In this medium, 95% of all game ideas do not get made. Most don't make it past the concept art stage or something similar to that.

 

[Dominic Burchnall]

Just throwing an idea onto the table, cos it looks about the right time period (and apologising in advance if it turns out my Batman lore is not up to scratch), but I think a really good final villain for this game would have been a newly resurrected Solomon Grundy. Maybe you feel his influence throughout the game, battling grunts in his employ, fight him in his human form, then the finale of the game has you square off against him as his regenerative powers set in. Solomon Grundy vs Steampunk Batman... what do you rekon, Escapists?

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Get a kickstarter and MAKE THIS GAME!

 

[EHKOS]

Man that cape was wicked though. Would have been nice to see something like that used in Arkham City!

I know. Cloth seems to be one of the hardest thing to do right in a game, but that was awesome.

OT: Maybe now a publisher will pick it up seeing the reception and it will get released in 2014 or something. At least I can dream.

 

[Dethenger]

That cape... Those physics... That was amazing!

That's exactly what I was thinking. I mean, I won't lie, I thought he looked like a fucking moron with his cowl and everything in a 19th century cape, but goddamn if that cape wasn't beautiful.