DC FanDome Offers First Look at Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad Games
Time for some news we deserve and need right now. Not one but two new DC games are on their way: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Gotham Knights and Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
The highly anticipated Gotham Knights comes after months of teases and cryptic symbols, as well as a leaked image of a WB Montreal developer sporting a shirt with what appeared to be a Court of Owls logo printed on the back. Turns out, many fans speculations were spot on.
Gotham Knights takes place after the death of Bruce Wayne, and follows the rest of the Bat Family as they traverse and open-world Gotham, fighting crime and taking on The Talon. The game features four playable characters, each with their own signature fighting style: the acrobatic Nightwing, martial artist Batgirl, weapons expert Red Hood, and the stealthy Red Robin. In a departure from previous Batman titles, Gotham Knights will be “playable either solo or as a two-player, online cooperative experience,” according to a press release issued by WB Montreal.
Additionally, the gameplay shown at FanDome conveys what appears to be RPG elements in the game, another deviation for the series. Experience points, enemy levels, damage counters and health bars are all visible, and imply there will be ways to level up or perhaps even outfit your character in order to boost your attack power or defense. Luckily, fans of the series won’t have to wait much longer to experience these changes for themselves. Gotham Knights will be available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC next year.
