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During Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, a story trailer dropped for the Camouflaj developed Batman: Arkham Shadow that promised the first glimpse of gameplay would be unveiled during Gamescom in August. During the Opening Night Live event as part of the kickoff of the event, both Camouflaj and Keighley delivered on just that.
Developed as an exclusive for the Meta Quest 3 tether less VR headset, Batman: Arkham Shadow, at least from the latest footage shown, is seemingly pulling a one-to-one transition from a flatscreen console experience to the immersive world of virtual reality. In the just over 2 minute long video, you can see Batman juggling crowds in freeflow combat sequences, gliding around Gotham City, zipping to perches and stalking foes with the use of detective vision. This is everything that players have been doing in the Arkham franchise for a decade-and-a-half, just from the first-person perspective.
Given that Camouflaj near effortlessly managed to make players feel like Iron Man in their last project, there really shouldn’t have been any doubt that they wouldn’t give the same care and attention to their first DC Comics project. Not content to build upon what Rocksteady Studios did in the early days of consumer grade VR, Camouflaj is looking to do what that studio did when they released Batman: Arkham Asylum in 2009: redefine exactly what a Batman video game is. The tagline in the trailer “Become the Knight” is fitting, if not only because “Be the Batman” was already taken for the marketing of Batman: Arkham Knight.
Of course the most recent glimpse of Arkham Shadow wasn’t just to show off how players will interact with the world when they don their headsets as there was plenty of story bits to dive into too. Among them are Harley Quinn and Harvey Dent, voiced by returning actors Tara Strong and Troy Baker, in their pre-villain days. Quinn, Dent, as well as Jonathan Crane, appear to be in the crosshairs of the game’s big bad, the Rat King. Arkham Shadow looks to be the in-universe debut of the TYGER security outfit that Hugo Strange would employ during the events of Batman: Arkham City. Characters like the Ventriloquist, who thus far have been relegated to Riddler collectible hunts finally get their own character models after 14 years.
You can watch the gameplay reveal of Batman: Arkham Shadow below and play it this October when it arrives as an exclusive to the Meta Quest 3 ecosystem. As it is with the final months of the year in the interactive space, right now the biggest threat facing Arkham Shadow is players somehow juggling their personal finances to experience it given how much great software is landing in its launch month alone.
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