April Cover Revealed – Batman: Arkham Knight

The developer that made Arkham a household name is back. Rocksteady Studios' Arkham Asylum innovated with the freeflow combat system and stalking gameplay in 2009, and the team blew it all out to an open world in 2011's Arkham City. Rocksteady is hoping to raise the bar even higher on what will be its final Arkham game. Set after the events of Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Knight may just end the Dark Knight's journey.

As you've probably guessed from the cover imagery, the Batmobile is finally a core element of the gameplay. An entirely new area of Gotham City, far larger than Arkham City, has much wider streets to accommodate the new driving gameplay that is designed to integrate smoothly with Batman's gliding and grappling traversal. Batman chases down super villains Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and more.

Arkham Knight will release later this year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. We've got 14 action-packed pages loaded with the first details and a whole month of exclusive content here on gameinformer.com. Get a sneak peek at what's in store in our coverage trailer below

Origins was fine. It wasn't as good, and it was harder than the previous two, but it was still a bloody good game.

Hmm, I can't think that I've encountered any bugs (save for not being able to play the fan game on release day). I've not finished it yet, mind.

If they put a driving section in I'm going to be sad.

There it is... My reason to buy an Xbox one.

It's not an exclusive, don't fret.

I know but it's not coming out on the 360 so I'll have to upgrade. I've already decided that I'll buy an Xbox one eventually.

Also no multiplayer!

Prediction: publisher pressure will have that shit shoe-horned in at the last minute, possibly even by a separate dev team.

Arkham Knight won't have any multiplayer. "This is a single-player game," stated Hill. "There is no multiplayer.

"We don't have the time to do multiplayer. We want to focus on making the best single-player experience we can. We don't feel that it needs a multiplayer element. Warner Bros. backed that up right at the start."

Co-op Batman and [someone else] would make me jizz right now at my desk.

Co-op Batman and Holly Willoughby would make me jizz right now at my desk.

If they put a driving section in I'm going to be sad.

Roads are now wider to accommodate your ability to drive around the city. You'll also be able to accelerate up walls and drive while inverted in tunnels.

You'll also be able to accelerate up walls

Edit - Unless a Fallout game is announced at E3 for release this year.

I do think Fallout 4 will be this year and will be announced at E3 or around that time

I'd be very surprised if this year. 2015 I think hopefully it will be next gen machines only. I'm hoping this E3 we will see developers focusing on the PS4/XB1/PC releases only without having to make a version for 360/PS3.

I think your still going to see 4 versions for at least this year with the older systems falling back slightly next year.

Batman Arkham Knight for one is not coming out on 360/PS3

It's not a driving section, you'll need to use the Batmobile to get around because it's so HUGE.

I have to use the batmobile to get around your mum because she's so huge.

Because she is so fat.