Gotham Knights offers us an abyssal dive into Gotham after Batman. An adventure that we guess dark and grandiose, and of which we explain everything to you.
[Mis à jour le 10 mai 2022 à 10h27] Batman is dead and Gotham mourns, scarred by the crime that eats away at her from the inside. It is in this rather sinister context that four young heroes are called upon to take the place of the Dark Knight, in an epic and unprecedented adventure developed by Warner Bros Games. Coming sometime in 2022, Gotham Knights is an open-world, co-op RPG where you’ll have the opportunity to fight and hold at bay Gotham’s most wanted criminals, unleashed after the death of Bruce Wayne. This project originally presented at DC Fandom in August 2020 was initially scheduled for the year 2021. However, the health crisis having greatly impacted the video game industry, its release was finally set for October 25. Release date, gameplay, trailers… We summarize everything you need to know about Gotham Knights.
A co-op mode in Gotham Knights?
Gotham Knights offers us a dive into the sinister world of Gotham City, a universe full of danger where fighting crime alone can be complex. This is why the game will fully integrate a two-player co-op mode. We could even push the plug a little further, hoping for a cooperation mode for up to four players, information from the Playstation Store, which has since been corrected (back to two players max). But the game will be presented to us live this Tuesday in a gameplay sequence of several minutes, the opportunity for Warner Bros. Games to confirm the extent of the cooperation mode.
What is the release date for Gotham Knights?
Initially announced two years ago, Gotham Knights saw its release penalized both by the health crisis and its intention to cover two generations of consoles at the same time. Indeed, Gotham Knights is scheduled to be released on both Playstation 5, PC and Xbox Series X|S, and both on Playstation 4 and Xbox One. A promise that can lead to development difficulties for the game to comply with the technical specificities of old consoles. Only now Warner has finally announced the official release date of the game, October 25th.
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Gameplay
We told you in the introduction, Gotham Knights is a unique experience, straight out of the Warner Bros Games Montreal studios, which have already offered us, among other things, the excellent Batman Arkham City and Batman Arkham Origins. Suffice to say that the studio knows about open-world games in Gotham. This is exactly what Gotham Knights tends towards: an action-adventure RPG set in the open world of Gotham City. The game will be playable alone, or in two-player co-op, and you can embody one of the four heirs of Batman: Robin, Batgirl, Redhood and Nightwing in their quest to take back Gotham from the hands of organized crime and bloodthirsty mutants. Each hero has their own weapons and skills, so you will have to choose their character according to their style of play, melee enthusiasts will opt for Nightwing and Robin instead, while those who prefer firearms will rather go to Redhood. The game will also include different ways to customize your character, damage indicators and epic boss battles against big names in the DC universe. At least that’s what the gameplay trailer published at the time of the game’s reveal in 2020 foreshadowed: