'Batman: Arkham Knight' Batmobile: How Does it Work?
Dax Ginn, the marketing director for Rocksteady games and the highly anticipated upcoming fall 2014 release Batman: Arkham Knight, recently sat down with Kotaku to talk about the Batmobile featured in the game. Gamers are used to driving mechanics and capabilities in certain video games, but this interview reveals the Batmobile is a whole other monster.
Just like the contents of Batman's utility belt, the Batmobile is another tool to help the caped crusader take care of crime. Nothing stands in the way of the Batmobile in this new game. Nothing.
"It's really nice to be able to say, 'If you get turn slightly wrong as you're making a right turn and you're going to run into the side of the building, you're just going to rip that corner of the building off,' rather than something that just stops the Batmobile, which totally kills the power fantasy of the Batmobile," Ginn told the website.
"I think there are a lot of driving games where we could have kind of borrowed gameplay mechanics just because they're easy. For us, the focus was: 'What's the Batmobile all about? How do we make the experience feel really unique?' And so destruction is a big part of that-the power and speed of driving the Batmobile," he said. "We really were very concerned about the Batmobile experience feeling like a bolted on driving mode, and we did not want that. That would have been a real failure for us."
Read more from Ginn in regards to the exciting new to the Arkham gaming experience right here!