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Nearly 10 years after the release of Batman: Arkham Knight, a new addition to the series is finally on the way called Batman: Arkham Shadow, and it gives me no pleasure to tell you that it’s a VR game, exclusive to the Meta Quest 3.
There’s not much to theannouncement, beyond the fact of the game’s existence: “Evil stalks the streets. Gotham City is in danger. And you’re the only one who can stop it,” Meta said in the reveal, a descriptor that could very easily be applied to pretty much every single day in the Caped Crusader’s life. Let’s be honest about it, in terms of meaningful crime reduction the man just is not having an impact.
Purists will note that this isn’t actually the first new Arkham game since Arkham Knight. Confusingly, that would beSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League—which, while available on PC and console, suffers from some pretty well-documentedissuesand struggling player numbers. Gotham Knights, meanwhile, which came out in 2022, is a much more Batman-centric experience but isnot an Arkham sequel(and is alsonot great.) It’s all very confusing.
The issue isn’t that VR games inevitably suck, but that they’re so limiting. Only a tiny portion of PC gamers have VR headsets, so no matter how good Batman: Arkham Shadow ultimately proves to be, the vast majority of potential players simply won’t have access to it—and as popular as the series is I don’t imagine it will be enough to convince many people to drop $500 on a VR rig.
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Anyway, getting back to the teaser: My first reaction was that it’s supposed to bebats, not rats, but then I recalledRatcatcher, a C-tier bat-villain who’s been referenced or appeared in past Batman: Arkham games and other media. He was also killed in Batman: Arkham Knight, which is not especially convenient for this bit of theorizing, but hey, it’s comics—I remember when Bane snapped Batman like a twig and he got better, so why not Ratcatcher? We’ll find out in June.
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