The Arkham series of Batman games has done well to imitate the caped crusader's dark and foreboding lifestyle of swinging around rooftops and haymaker punching bad guys all by his lonesome. The next one though will potentially be the darkest yet, as it's the first to receive the M rating from regulators and the developers have hinted that this is because of a few key things where "bad stuff" happens.
However they have clarified it won't just be bad language or loads of blood. Mature themes will come from somewhere else entirely.
"As the end of the trilogy, we have every villain in Gotham working together to destroy Batman," said the game's director, Sefton Hill in a chat with IGN. "It's unavoidable that some bad stuff is going to happen. But that doesn't mean we changed our approach. We're not including gratuitous blood or swearing. We want to deliver a true end with no compromises, and it takes us to some dark places."
Despite the ratings board eventually coming to Rocksteady and stating that two or three particular scenes were going to affect the game's rating, the developer stood fast and maintained that those were big, necessary scenes that needed to take place. Removing them it said, would have "watered down the experience," and would have been a needless pandering to mass market appeal, rather than making the true finale to the series that Rocksteady had intended.
Batman: Arkham Knight is set for release on June 2nd on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
