'For us I think the Batmobile is that final thing. And according to Ginn, that itself seems like an accomplishment:

With the Batmobile taking center stage in Arkham Knight's announcement trailer, and apparently adding a new dimension to the gameplay, it seems there is nothing left for the team to tackle. If the team's initial goal was to simulate the experience of actually being Batman, they have little left to prove.īatman's use of stealth, fear, and his obsessive mission to save Gotham City have all been adapted beautifully by the developers, but there was always one trademark of the Dark Knight left unexplored - until now. Sure, most of the series' plot centered on the caped crusader's life-long battle with the maniacal Joker, but that's generally the case with the comics as well. It's hard to argue that there are sides of the Batman character that haven't been explored in the Arkham series, either in the central campaign or lengthy side content. 'We’ve done all we can do here… it’s kind of time for us to walk away from it.'

But it was something that we were really pushing for because we had a really clear vision for how this story should end, and the way we wanted it to end. 'Anything we do is a collective decision between Rocksteady, Warner Brothers, and DC Comics. Rocksteady's Dax Ginn explained to IGN that while the decision to end the company's work on Arkham wasn't made lightly, the developers didn't see the need to go on: So why - or how - is the studio putting Arkham behind them? The notion of leaving a superhero/blockbuster property just as new costumes are introduced, brand new villains are created to raise the stakes, and beloved characters get larger roles is a strange one for both the world of video games and movies (where box office draw and name recognition reign supreme). Now the developers has offered some insight into their reasons for leaving the franchise so soon, and what the future could hold for the team moving forward. While the announcement was met with excitement from fans, it came with a bittersweet twist: Arkham Knight would not just be Rocksteady's next Arkham game, but their last as well. But unbelievably, the announcement of Batman: Arkham Knight promised to blow the previous entries out of the water set in a full-scale Gotham City, adding the Batmobile to the mix, and launching exclusively on next-gen systems. With Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City hailed as not only the best superhero video games ever developed, but some of the best third-person action titles in years, Rocksteady Studios had silenced critics completely.

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