Developer(s)制作商:Warner Bros. Games Montréal
Additional work by:Splash Damage (multiplayer)
Publisher(s)出版商:Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Director(s)导演:Eric Holmes
Producer(s)监制:Ben Mattes / Guillaume Voghel
Artist(s)画家:Jeremy Price
Writer(s)作家:Corey May / Dooma Wendschuh
Composer(s) 总监:Christopher Drake
Series 系列:Batman: Arkham
Engine:Unreal Engine 3
Platform(s) 平台:Microsoft Windows /PlayStation 3 /Wii U /Xbox 360
Release date(s) 发售日: 25号10月2013年
Genre(s) 类型:Action-adventure 动作冒险
Synopsis / Setting
The events of Arkham Origins are set approximately five years before Batman: Arkham Asylum, in the middle of winter in fictional Gotham City. Batman is an experienced crime-fighter in the second year of his career, but has not yet become the veteran superhero portrayed in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. He remains a mysterious force with even the police unsure if he is a vigilante, a myth or supernatural. Batman has battled with traditional criminals and gangsters and is used to being stronger and faster than his targets. However, on a snowy Christmas Eve, he is confronted by far more dangerous foes: eight professional assassins aiming to collect the $50 million bounty put on Batman's head by Black Mask. Rogues such as the Joker take advantage of the assassins' arrival to launch their own nefarious schemes, while Black Mask's henchmen help instigate a rise in crime and gang activity in the city.
The Gotham City Police Department, led by Commissioner Loeb, is thoroughly corrupt, and Branden leads his SWAT team in hunting down Batman to claim the bounty for themselves. The incorruptible Captain James Gordon is one of the most unpopular members of the force. The GCPD are aware of "the Batman", and do not condone his actions towards criminality. Batman's relationship with his ally Alfred is strained. Batman sees Alfred as a reminder of his parents' deaths, and an overbearing parental figure, while Alfred sees Batman as a spoiled child squandering his inheritance on his vigilante crusade, causing the two to repeatedly come into conflict.
Old Gotham, the segment of Gotham City which will become the Arkham City prison, is not yet walled off, and contains slums, lower buildings, a large shopping mall, and docks where Penguin's ship Final Offer is stationed. Within Final Offer, Penguin has added a casino, fighting pit and sales floor with weapons and ammunition. Across the bridge from Old Gotham is New Gotham, the more modern metropolitan area of the city filled with towering skyscrapers.