In recent news, WB Games Montreal has announced some more stuff for
Batman: Arkham Origins, the fourth of the eight assassins has been revealed as Copperhead. In the original comics and animated series, Copperhead was a male villain in a snake suit. In the recent New 52 comics, he has been transformed into a mutant assassins: a snake man. In this new game, the assassin is a female, snake-like mutant. Batman, in the official teaser trailer for the character, notes that the files on the villain "list a male, not a female", hinting that the Copperhead of the comics may have existed before the events of the game, and this female is his protégé. She appears to be a fast, stealthy, agile assassins, and appears to be an interesting challenge for the Dark Knight. At E3 and Comic-Con, the team behind the game revealed a new skin: "Worst Nightmare", which is the version of Batman criminal see: a dark creature who roams the night, which can be unlocked by completing the game 100%. They also showed off the demos for the main game and it's portable follow-up:
Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate. This portable game will take place after the story mode of the main game, and will feature Batman's first encounters with Catwoman, and will be a 2-D platformer. In the recent issue of Official Xbox Magazine USA, new screenshots were released, including those of "Wonderland". This issue revealed that The Mad Hatter will appear in the "Most Wanted" side missions, but he will play a much larger role than he did in
Arkham City, which featured him in a very short side mission. He will have hypnotized thugs in rabbit masks, similar to the last game, and Batman must save a girl he has kidnapped, who he sees as the incarnation of Alice from Lewis Carroll's works (this aspect of Hatter's personality was explored in the Hugo Strange interview tapes from
Arkham City). The demented Wonderland hallucination will feature dilapidated towers and buildings, hypnotized thugs, strange locations, and surreal imagery. Here is a video on the mission that goes into detail on the locations and has some spoilers as to the ending of the mission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JCrgZfuHGI. If you preorder the game at GameStop, besides getting the ability to play as Deathstroke, you can get 2 exclusive Black Mask challenge maps, but it has not been confirmed if you can play as the masked mobster. There's been a rumor floating around that Ron Perlman (
Hellboy, Cronos, City of Lost Children, Beatuy and the Beast series,
Tangled, Blade II, 1000 Ways to Die, Drive, Sons of Anarchy, Pacific Rim) will reprise his role as Deathstroke/Slade Wilson from the
Teen Titans animated series, where he was referred to as "Slade". That would be awesome. That's all the news so far,
Arkham Origins hits stores October 25, 2013, in just about 3 months. I'm excited to hear more news and experience the game for myself. Thanks for reading.
Note: Nolan North voices The Penguin in
Arkham City and
Origins, as well as many other classic game characters such as Desomnd Miles from
Assassin's Creed and Nathan Drake in
Uncharted. He is also known for voicing the video game and animated inarnations of Deadpool. What's interesting about North appearing in both this game and the
Deadpool games is that Deadpool is somewhat of a homage/parody of Deathstroke, even having a similar name (Slade Wilson and Wade Wilson), despite being a classic character in his own right.
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