Summary
- Batman: Arkham Knight has received a surprise DLC update featuring Robert Pattinson's costume from The Batman, adding a new dimension to the game.
- The update, currently available only on the Epic Games Store, allows players to take on the role of Pattinson's Batman and explore Gotham City.
- While the timing of the DLC release suggests it may have been intended to coincide with the original release of the upcoming Batman: Arkham Trilogy, it remains to be seen if the costume will become available on other platforms.
In a surprising twist, Batman: Arkham Knight just got a new DLC update eight years after its release, one that adds Robert Pattinson’s costume from The Batman. Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham trilogy stands among some of the most popular comic-based video games of all time, having won over fans with blistering gameplay, a dark and haunting atmosphere, and great vocal performances from Mark Hamill and the late Kevin Conroy among a talented cast of actors. 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight served as a finale for Rocksteady’s saga at the time, pitting the Dark Knight against the Scarecrow and the titular Arkham Knight in one last battle to save Gotham City.
Arkham Knight added much to the already successful formula of the previous Batman: Arkham games, with the most prominent being a playable Batmobile that the Caped Crusader could use to solve puzzles and navigate the open world of Gotham. The game also featured a wide collection of alternate DLC Batsuits, and just like the costumes featured in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, many of them were pulled from Batman’s various looks from comics, television shows, and movies. Players had to buy most of these outfits, but Rocksteady is surprising Batman: Arkham fans with a free one inspired by the Dark Knight’s most recent cinematic outing.
Batman: Arkham Trilogy on Switch Has a Big Catch
The Batman: Arkham Trilogy's Nintendo Switch release seems to be compromised, and it isn't just because Arkham Origins has been excluded once again.
Batman: Arkham Knight players have started sharing screenshots of a new alternate character skin based on Robert Pattinson’s armored appearance in The Batman, Matt Reeves’s gritty, detective-style reboot of the franchise from last year. There hasn’t been any kind of official announcement of this new Arkham Knight suit from Rocksteady, and the update featuring it is only available as part of the Epic Games Store so far. Still, fans are buzzing about the chance to roam Gotham as Pattinson’s Batman, especially since Arkham Knight’s character model bears some resemblance to the Tenet star.
Given how out-of-the-blue the reported appearance of The Batman’s DLC suit is, some fans wonder if it was meant to coincide with the release of Batman: Arkham Knight on the Nintendo Switch as part of the Batman: Arkham Trilogy collection on December 1. While this compilation of all three of Rocksteady’s Batman games was originally set to launch in the fall, it was later delayed to allow the developers more time to polish the experience on the Switch, much to the dismay of fans already put off by a similar delay for next year’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Rocksteady possibly planned for the newly-released Robert Pattinson suit from The Batman to launch alongside Batman: Arkham Trilogy, but the Epic Games Store put it out early. In any case, this surprising new Batman: Arkham Knight suit is currently only available at the Epic Store, but it's hard to imagine it won't soon be released on Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One as well, especially now that fans have seen Pattinson's Caped Crusader in action on the streets of Gotham.
Batman: Arkham Knight is available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Batman: Arkham Trilogy is set to release on December 1 for Nintendo Switch.
Source: GamesRadar