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The Dark Knight Video Game in the Works!

Posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

And you thought they forgot? /Gamer has news that Warner Bros is working to release a video game based on The Dark Knight. Apparently, Gary Oldman, who plays Lt. James Gordon in the film, revealed to G4 that the game will be hit stores around the same time as the DVD/Blu-ray release of the movie. Not much else is known, although we can assume from Oldman’s comments that some of the talent from the film provided voice work. No word on if Heath Ledger provided any additional voice tracks for the game. Could this be the first good Batman video game? I’m skeptical. The film is more of a crime drama/thriller than the normal comic book action movie, and I’m not exactly sure how that will translate for a video game. Read More on /Gamer.

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JoeMacky

First good Batman game? There have been a couple of good Batman games. The NES one based on the 89 film was difficult, but it was solid.

Christopher Edwards

I have not seen The Dark Knight yet(tomorrow at 1pm, can't wait :D)

But there is only one good film to game tie in is it Goldeneye.

But depending on how they make this into a platform or a free for all, but I can only speculate until tomorrow.

Vobe

i'm not shy to admit that the best video game for a movie i've ever played is Lord of the Rings: The two towers, which was brilliant. I don't know about how the The Dark Knight will do as a game though.

but i think the main problem, with games based upon movies, is that they are made in a rush..

Zach

Chris, you apparently don't play too many video games. The Chronicles of Riddick is one of the most solid movie based games out there. And recently, the Bourne Conspiracy was fantastic, it just didn't sell well. You also have a number of the LOTD games, all of which did quite well on the review side of things. Most movie games suck, but there are usually a few good ones thrown in there somewhere.

jimbo stewart

I enjoyed Batman Returns for SNES

Patrick

I have to admit, I'm a sucker for games based on Superhero movies. Especially when the talent from the film is involved. I actually really liked the Batman Begins game and was very surprised they didn't make a Dark Knight game. Now, I can't wait!!

A Better Class of Criminal

If you get to ride the Batpod and shove pencils into people's heads I'm in.

A Better Class of Criminal

Why aren't my comments showing up?

Brody

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER I HOPEEEEEEEEEEE

YoungZe

I would love to see a decent free-roaming Batman game based on the movies. The Batman Begins game was awful and the only other free-roaming Batman game was based on the shittiest batman movie ever (Of course i'm talking about Batman Forever), the only thing that blew me away was that you could really play detective and find out through left evidence when and where the next enemy is going to attack.

YoungZe

I'm sorry Brody but: Are you completely nuts? This is like the worst thing a human being could come up with.

tobor68

is that the game (pictured) that i used to play on the C64?

tobor68

or amiga?

YoungZe

No tobor it's for the SNES.

Kevin H.

Don't be so stupid to claim there aren't any decent Batman games. Batman & Robin on Genesis is a masterpiece.

For someone promoting a video game blog, you know jack shit about video games...

Thedrizzle

I complied all the behind the scenes footage and all the viral marketing campaign ads that were made for this film and every thing else i could find about the movie in to a time line of how it all went down!!! it's pretty amazing seeing how they did alot of it... but yea.. seeing how they are making a game means i can even add more things to the timeline!!!! check the thing out at capzles.com

Captain Awesome

For once I would love a good Batman game that lives in the modern console world.

Something that has the vicious fighting system of Ninja Gaiden. With the giant, sprawling, city of GTA 4.

Richard

This is cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGHwdJUjdI

Ricky

The Warriors and LOTR: Two Towers are my favorite movie games. Im actually looking forward to this but Im not planning on losing any sleep over it.

Moviola

I'd love to see something like Grand Theft Auto 4, except Batman. That almost has the same feel as the film. Especially considering that Gotham City was a major character of the movie. But I think they should allow you to play as Batman OR The Joker. One that goes on missions to fight crime, the other causing anarchy.

Captain Awesome

Moviola,

That would be a good idea for a multiplayer aspect of a Batman game. One being the Joker, the other Batman trying to stop him. Set up objectives and you as the Joker need to try and somehow execute them.

Like a glorified hide n' seek. But a good Batman game isn't impossible. Hell you could even add in RPG-like elements into it for solving cases and helping people in a specific way. You can easily set it up to really have people "feel" like you're the caped crusader. Imaging jumping off the top of a building in Gotham and executing the perfect dive into a nother buildings window to take out some hostage taker and his goons?

I just came.

Timman

They need to make the Batman Game just like GTA. A free roaming action packed RPG of some kind. Let the play develope the story. The batman game could be cool if you were batman and your job was to catch mob members and the occasional big baddy would show up and reak havoc. They could make it super cool....very much like GTA with bruce wayne and the batcave and pod and mobile.....could be great....but wont happen

ChrisMc

I'm hoping that this is all fact. Because I keep on hearing that they are making a NEW batman game based off how ASSASSINS CREED and Batman Begins run. I'm just hoping this is the rumors for the Dark Knight game. Oh if they had Character changes that would make it great Play throught storyMode as Batman and Joker as well as having a completely different playing style for each character.

insidious.vanderbilt

I'd be happy with Deus Ex: Batman Edition.

Jordan

I wonder if it will be like devil may cry 4 where half way you switch between good and evil everyone wants to play batman with all the gadgets and his motorcycle but who wouldn't wanna play badass as cool as joker

Dark Nocterna

A free roaming Batman Game would be brilliant if it was done right, Spiderman 3 was a fairly game, and is a great half an hour play if you just want to mess around the city, jump off buildings and generally have a laugh gta style. However keeping in mind the recent Superman Returns disaster, and the Iron Man game that wanted to be air combat game with absolutely no controlability and the pannache of Duke Nukem 64; A FR game would have to have a solid story line, and enough gadgets to either, climb, glide or drive to your destination.

Just my opinion though!

Goldeneye is still the best movie tie in game btw, but the LOTR games were fairly good as well!

Eddie

i think they should make a batman dark knight game so you can play the whole game as batman then try the whole game as joker and adding a free roaming mission. the thing i would want changed i don;t know if u guys played batman begins but when you play as batman he runs like a total idiot so i would like him to run normally in the batman dark knight if they make one

coolguy

aaa

coolguy

I hope it's like the spider-man 2 game; with a free roaming city and story missions and all of that. But the Spider-man 2 game was a bit repetitive, so i hope the missions are unique and different most of the time, and lets hope they throw in lots of cool villains an lots of things to blow up!!!

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