Continuation of Batman Arkham IP Dependent on ‘Stories to Tell’

Future installments in the Batman Arkham franchise will come into fruition as long as there’s stories to tell.

Marketing game manager for Rocksteady Studios, Dax Ginn, told CVG when asked on the series’ future:

Man. That’s really tough. I mean I think as long as we’re still enjoying it and as long as we feel we can contribute to the Batman universe… That’s how it feels. There’s some amazing stuff going on with Batman all around the world at the moment and we feel as though we’re making our own little contribution in the form of the Arkham-verse. So as long as we’ve got stories to tell. So long as we feel we can do that and do that really well.

He continued:

There’s no other character that’s as awesome as Batman who’s got such an incredible rogues gallery, who’s got such and amazing structure for gameplay. All it takes is to give a guy an assault rifle and it changes the entire nature of combat. So you can put Batman up against 30 thugs in the street and just cane them and feel like a total don but as soon as one of them’s got a shotgun you have to rethink what you do. That’s really rare for a superhero and we really love using the facets of his personality to create gameplay out of that.

Ginn concluded:

I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future but right now I feel like we’re in a real sweet spot with the games that we’re making, the opportunities that we have so I don’t really want that to change.

Batman: Arkham Asylum has sold several million copies in addition receiving countless accolades, as well as a stellar critical performance. The next iteration in the franchise, Batman: Arkham City, releases on October 18th in North America and three days later in Europe.