By Alec Meer on January 26th, 2011 at 5:38 pm.
Quickly, Batchildren! A mysterious French internet online websitepage has a frustratingly unembeddable new trailer from Batman: Arkham City, which will almost certainly be dragged off into a dark alley and given a sound kicking by the dastardly Mr Embargo any minute now. It features Batman and the Joker working together (whaaaaaaaaat), in a “punching hulking goons in the teeth” sort of way. It looks, to coin a phrase, “tight.”
Edit – there’s some speculation this may be fake. Maybe it is! Investigating/being bewildered by the strange lengths people on the internet go to will be fun regardless. Dialogue and character models are apparently lifted from the first game, and could have originated from the Unreal SDK. What do you think, detectives?
Edit edit – Warner Bros confirm it’s a fake. So there’s that. Let’s take bets on how long until it’s pulled, and on what grounds.
26/01/2011 at 17:42 outoffeelinsobad says:
That looks pretty fucking stupid, if you ask me.
26/01/2011 at 17:44 Mike says:
Co-op challenge levels, I reckon.
26/01/2011 at 17:45 El_MUERkO says:
winsauce
26/01/2011 at 17:45 mandrill says:
Batman and Joker co-operating? NON_CANON_ERROR REDO_FROM_START
26/01/2011 at 17:46 WildcardUK says:
Awesome ending to that trailer!
26/01/2011 at 17:48 Zephro says:
So co-op challenges, or somehow constructed machina?
The dialogue did sound like something from the first game rather than new dialogue.
26/01/2011 at 17:50 Tuco says:
It looks like an obvious fake, even if very well crafted.
26/01/2011 at 17:55 Kentobi says:
Definitely fake. The dialog, animations, and character models are all out of the first game. This is just someone’s machina.
26/01/2011 at 18:05 madAzrael says:
What a shame.
but yes, definitly fake
26/01/2011 at 18:03 Tyshalle says:
Fake.
26/01/2011 at 18:06 Tusque D'Ivoire says:
wow. this is very good for being fake.
I did think that the graphics were pretty similar to the first game, but then again, it’s a console game, and they’re not going anywhere…
Concerning batman and joker working together, that would have been a bit of a cheap approach for the next game.
26/01/2011 at 18:08 Cooper says:
The dialogue is definitely ripped. Shame. The production quality is fantastic. Very professional animations.
26/01/2011 at 18:12 Vague-rant says:
As good as it was, something definitely seemed off. Not by much, but still not quite right. On the other hand do we know who the other character in co-op is yet?
26/01/2011 at 18:13 Brumisator says:
I like that TV catching move.
It’s a very nicely made fake, I must say, very nice animations, and clever reuse of the original game’s voices and rarely seen props/textures
26/01/2011 at 18:21 DJ Phantoon says:
Well, if it were real, it could easily be them teaming up to take down Owlman. It’s happened before.
26/01/2011 at 18:21 Earl-Grey says:
Most certainly a fan machinima.
If it is not I do suspect that quite a number of Batchildren might end up in a hissy fit-angry internet man-induced coma.
…and if I allow myselft to put on the cowl of the Batchild for just a minute; why would Batman cooperate with the Joker just to fend off goons that Bats easily could have smeared across the tarmac himself?
26/01/2011 at 18:34 Earl-Grey says:
Oh bother, my ignorance got the better of me.
I’ll just slap on the cowl of dunce instead.
26/01/2011 at 18:26 krisdmd says:
Looks a bit strange but not bad at all :)
26/01/2011 at 18:31 Eclipse says:
They need to hire whoever did that thing
26/01/2011 at 18:38 Sigma Draconis says:
Yeah, this is likely a fake, yet well done for a fake.
And I wouldn’t put it past Rocksteady to implement a multiplayer challenge mode concept similar to what’s seen in this video.
26/01/2011 at 18:54 Soon says:
Thanks, kewego. Ahem.
26/01/2011 at 19:00 passingstranger says:
Certainly fakery, but fairly well done fakery. A more polished version of this could have made for a neat co-op trailer.
26/01/2011 at 19:15 Tei says:
This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing a quite a few shops in my tiem.
26/01/2011 at 21:26 aerozol says:
Recognized that alley from one of the flashback/ hallucinatory scenes in Arkham Asylumn pretty quick.
26/01/2011 at 21:43 Nallen says:
how the hell did they do that?
26/01/2011 at 22:30 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
For a fake, its really well animated! Although I would like to see a version with less compression and a higher framerate.
26/01/2011 at 22:40 vash47 says:
Very nice trailer.
26/01/2011 at 23:04 Mephistoau says:
That’s a pretty amazing fake then…
26/01/2011 at 23:26 jonfitt says:
Very nice.
27/01/2011 at 00:19 Caddrel says:
Does anyone else think this is a fake?
27/01/2011 at 03:10 Brumisator says:
Does anyone here know how to read?
27/01/2011 at 03:44 Jake says:
Does anyone here know what these two comments say?
27/01/2011 at 10:34 BooleanBob says:
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27/01/2011 at 03:18 Moonracer says:
was a fun watch regardless
27/01/2011 at 06:21 Captain Hijinx says:
Crap.. It’s been pulled and i never got to see it :/
27/01/2011 at 19:32 DigitalSignalX says:
Ditto :(
28/01/2011 at 05:39 TeeJay says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx4F3hQUCVA
28/01/2011 at 03:22 WJonathan says:
Oh no the towl was poisoned!