Batman: Arkham Origins

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Batman: Arkham Origins
Studio Warner Bros. Games Montréal (single player)
Splash Damage (multiplayer)
Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 October 25, 2013
November 8, 2013 (Wii U)
platform Windows , Xbox 360 , PS3 , Wii U
Game engine Unreal Engine
genre Action adventure
Game mode Single player , multiplayer
control Gamepad
keyboard and mouse
medium DVD-ROM , Blu-ray , download
language multilingual
Age rating
USK approved from 16
PEGI recommended for ages 16+

Batman: Arkham Origins is an action-adventure game for Xbox 360 , Wii U , PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows . It is the third title in the Batman: Arkham series and the sequel to Batman: Arkham City . The release date for Europe is October 25, 2013. It was developed by Warner Bros. Games Montréal, publisher is Warner Bros. Interactive .

action

Batman: Arkham Origins takes place at Christmas time five years before the first series title Batman: Arkham Asylum . As in the previous games, the main character and character is the eponymous comic hero from DC Comics : Batman . He goes to Blackgate prison , as Black Mask and Killer Croc free prisoners there and kill the police commissioner Loeb. Batman defeats Black Mask's allies and eventually faces victorious Killer Croc. He tells Batman that Black Mask has hired contract killers to kill Batman as well. In the Bath Cave, his headquarters, Bruce Wayne, who is behind the Batman mask, analyzes a computer chip that he found in Blackgate and finds out that eight killers are after him: Killer Croc, Electrocutioner , Deathstroke , Copperhead , Bane , Deadshot , Shiva and Firefly .

Wayne visits crime boss Penguin on his ship Final Offer to find out more about the killers, but is stopped by criminals and electrocutioners who stand in Batman's path together. Batman defeats the Electrocutioner, but he manages to escape. Wayne manages to clear his way to Pinguin's office, where he is ambushed by Deathstroke and has to fight him.

After the successful fight, Batman goes to the Lacey Towers because he learned from the penguin that a murder had been committed there: Black Mask's doppelganger was killed. Wayne analyzes that the Joker was behind the murder and breaks into the police station to find out more about the killer. He meets Captain Jim Gordon for the first time, who shows no sympathy for Batman, and his daughter Barbara , who seems to be the only one who believes that Batman is fighting for "good". After Wayne accesses the police computer, he goes to Black Mask's steel mill . There he finds out that the Joker put the real Black Mask out of action some time ago and has since pretended to be the Black Mask and took over its men and property. Batman also learns that the Joker has hired the killers. The Joker flees the steel mill and Batman has to fight Copperhead in search of him, who gives Batman a strong neurotoxin. Batman can commission his butler Alfred Pennyworth to bring an antidote for the poison. After taking the antidote, Batman defeats Copperhead and learns from her that a meeting of the killers is about to take place.

An electromagnetic signal emitted from the electrocutioner's gloves enables Batman to locate the meeting point. He flies by batwing to the meeting at the Gotham Royal Hotel , where the Joker and Bane are already waiting for him. Since the Joker has taken over the hotel, he could easily plant a bomb there. He's been waiting for Batman to try to defuse it in order to detonate the bomb. However, Batman is able to save himself and goes to the penthouse where the Joker is staying. Shortly before, he threw the Electrocutioner out of the window. Before Batman can catch the Joker, he has to fight Bane, who is addicted to the superhuman toxin Venom . Batman survives, but his opponent flees and fires a bazooka at the hotel, which causes the Joker to fall into the depths. Batman saves the Joker and hands him over to the police. The Joker is then taken to Blackgate Prison, where he is cared for by the insecure doctor Harleen Quinzel and begins to manipulate her so that she later supports him in his battles against Batman as Harley Quinn .

Since Batman, who remembers the murder of his parents and thus tries to reconstruct his rescue operation on the Joker himself, was able to attach a tracking device to Bane, he can now determine his position from the Bath cave. Before he follows the signal, Wayne comes into conflict with his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, who promised Wayne's parents to protect their son before they died. However, he cannot guarantee this due to the double life of his protégé. Batman ignores Pennyworth's worries and follows the signal that leads him to Bane's headquarters. There he discovers that Bane has TN-1 , an even more powerful making Venom that causes permanent memory loss, and that Bane knows the true identity of Batman. Batman contacts Pennyworth, who sends Batman to the Gotham Pioneers Brigde , where Firefly is up to mischief. Wayne goes there, disarms a bomb set by Firefly, defeats it in battle and hands the villain over to the police. In doing so, he and Gordon find that they would complement each other well as partners and decide to work together in the future.

When Wayne goes to his headquarters, Bath Cave, Bane tells him that Pennyworth is dead. Wayne is able to revive his butler, however, who now understands that Gotham City needs Batman when a report comes on the news stating that the Joker forced a riot in Blackgate and looted the armory. Batman makes his way to Blackgate again and faces Bane and the Joker again. The Joker tries to get Batman to break his self-created rule that he doesn't kill anyone by threatening to kill innocent people if Batman doesn't kill him. But Batman is attacked by Bane, whom he defeats with his shock gloves and brings him to cardiac arrest . Meanwhile, Gordon appears, but is shot by the Joker, who then fled. While Gordon tries with the police to catch the Joker, Batman tries to revive Bane. When Bane is resurrected, he says that he has to get stronger in order to defeat Batman. He injects the TN-1 drug and becomes even more powerful and dangerous. Even so, Batman can again defeat and incapacitate Bane by repeatedly ambushing him. Bane has also suffered a memory loss from taking the drug, so that he has forgotten the events of the night as well as Batman's secret identity.

Finally, Batman goes to a chapel where the police have located the Joker. He is already waiting for Batman and a fight ensues between the two, which Batman can win. He hands the Joker over to the police and disappears after talking to Gordon who was supposed to arrest Batman. The game ends with a monologue in which Gordon describes his impressions of the events and which ends with the statement that Gotham needs a protector. He believes that he and Batman can "give this town [...] something to believe in".

The credits include a radio recording in which Quincy Sharp blames Blackgate Prison for the events and promises Gotham citizens to reopen Arkham Asylum as a maximum security prison. After the credits there is a scene in which the imprisoned Deathstroke receives an offer to be released if he joins the Suicide Squad .

Characters

character English speaker German speaker
Batman Roger Craig Smith David Nathan
Alfred Pennyworth Martin Jarvis Jürgen Thormann
Black Mask Brian Bloom Marco Kroeger
Bane Jean-Benoît Blanc Tobias Kluckert
Deadshot Chris Cox Leon Boden
Deathstroke Mark Rolston Erich Rauker
Copperhead Rosa Salazar Anke Reitzenstein
Firefly Crispin Freeman
joker Troy Baker Bodo Wolf
penguin Nolan North Joachim Kaps
Mad Hatter Peter MacNicol Christoph Banks
Anarky Matthew Mercer Marcel Collé
Cpt. James Gordon Michael Gough Jan Spitzer
Gillian B. Loeb Oliver Siebeck
Branden Chris Fries Ronald Nitschke
Electrocutioner Steve Blum Tilo Schmitz

Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to that of the predecessor. Arkham Origins is presented from a third person perspective . The player controls Batman through the openly designed game world , which, in addition to the main missions, also has optional side missions and hidden puzzles. A number of the weapons and gadgets known from the comics are available to the character. For the fights against criminals, the game character receives experience points, which can vary depending on elegance and efficiency. These experience points can be invested in improving Batman's skills.

development

Unlike the two previous games, Batman: Arkham Origins was not developed by the series creators Rocksteady Studios , but by Warner Bros. developer studio in Montreal , as the developers of Rocksteady were already working on Batman: Arkham Knight , the final part of the series, at that time. The plot was conceived by the authors Corey May and Dooma Wendschuh ( Prince of Persia , Assassin's Creed ). Like its predecessors, the game uses the Unreal engine . For the first time in the history of the series, the game also includes a multiplayer mode that was developed by the development studio Splash Damage . However, the multiplayer component in the Wii-U version has been removed again because, according to Warner Bros., the target group is not large enough compared to the other platforms.

In parallel to Arkham Origins , the American company Armature Studio developed a companion product called Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for the handheld consoles Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita .

reception

Batman: Arkham Origins was nominated for the Game Critics Awards in the categories of Best Action Adventure Game and Best Console Game at E3 2013 . In the same context, it was recognized in the reporting of various magazines ( Forbes Magazine : Best Computer Game , Game Informer : Best Action Game, Newsarama : Best Game Based on a Comics, IGN : Best Xbox 360 Game)

Arkham Origins received consistently good reviews from the German gaming press. Among others from:

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Carol Pinchefsky: The Best (And Worst) Of E3 2013 ( English ) Forbes Magazine . June 16, 2013. Archived from the original on June 26, 2013. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
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