The Rumors of Batman: Arkham City's Multiplayer Are Greatly Exaggerated

[Trogdor1138]

Awesome, I like the fact they're concentrating on the strengths. I'm an almost exclusively single player person, so...

 

[Neverhoodian]

This is welcome news. I get tired of lackluster single player campaigns in games because the developers spent all their focus on multiplayer. I feel better now knowing that Rocksteady is putting as much care and polish into this game as they did in the first one.

Besides, Batman is at his best when he works alone.

 

[Natdaprat]

It could have been good, but this is good news. If the game is good enough, they'll likely consider it in the 3rd game and make it as good as it should be and not just a quickie.

 

[Kaymish]

personally i hardly ever play multiplayer parts of most games so i congratulate Sefton Hill for standing up and focusing on making a solid game rather than bowing to the demands of the executive meddlers on content that doesn't fit
this news makes me even more excited about the game its one my must buy list now

 

[Desert Tiger]

Okey, I am sort of mixed concerning this.

No Coop? Damn. It would have been awesome to have some unlockable Coop with an asskicking and equally dark and gritty hero (no Robin, thank you). As long as it stayed true to the Dark-knight feel of the game - and let's admit it, Robin was always a bit too campy to fit into modern Batman - it would have felt great.

No Multiplayer? Seriously, could anyone imagine a multiplayer game with these fighting-controls, or how the characters would be? You would have 16 Batman (Batmen?) on one map, even if they actually managed to work in ten other playable heroes, which they wouldn't.

For if you could kick ass playing in a dark Gotham DC-universe as a crusader of the night, who in their right mind wouldn't pick Batman?

Modern day Robin is Damien Wayne. He killed his first person when he was 5. FYI.

But yeah. As much as I'd like some superhero game with co-op and a big city to go and fight evil in, a Batman game ain't it.

 

[The Night Shade]

Great without multiplayer they can focus more on the singleplayer

 

[Realitycrash]

Okey, I am sort of mixed concerning this.

No Coop? Damn. It would have been awesome to have some unlockable Coop with an asskicking and equally dark and gritty hero (no Robin, thank you). As long as it stayed true to the Dark-knight feel of the game - and let's admit it, Robin was always a bit too campy to fit into modern Batman - it would have felt great.

No Multiplayer? Seriously, could anyone imagine a multiplayer game with these fighting-controls, or how the characters would be? You would have 16 Batman (Batmen?) on one map, even if they actually managed to work in ten other playable heroes, which they wouldn't.

For if you could kick ass playing in a dark Gotham DC-universe as a crusader of the night, who in their right mind wouldn't pick Batman?

Modern day Robin is Damien Wayne. He killed his first person when he was 5. FYI.

But yeah. As much as I'd like some superhero game with co-op and a big city to go and fight evil in, a Batman game ain't it.

I'm sure he is badass, but he is still Robin. Robin can never be nothing more than a whimpy sidekick. Sorry, he just got that rep, and it's never going to wash away.