ArkhamCity.co.uk's favourite IGN editor Greg Millar reveals more on what Harley Quinn's Revenge will entail, and offers his impressions!SPOILER WARNING: Harley Quinn's Revenge takes place after the ending of Batman: Arkham City. This article mentions how the game ends.Batman's missing, Oracle's worried, and Robin's infiltrated Harley Quinn's hideout. This all happens in the opening moments of the upcoming downloadable content for Batman: Arkham City, but I don't need much more to tell you that this is the kind of DLC that all DLC should be.
Set a few weeks after the events of Batman: Arkham City, Harley Quinn's Revenge is a single-player story arriving in North America on May 29th (September for other territories)
<< Please note this information is incorrect, HQR will release worldwide May 29th! - Elliott -- both as a standalone download and as part of Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition. And what makes this content great from the first 30 minutes I played is that it exists. It's more of Batman: Arkham City.
Downloadable skins, challenge maps and multiplayer modes might satiate some gamers, but that's never been the case for me. I play video games for stories, for characters I care about. If you promise me downloadable content such as Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare or Mass Effect 2's Arrival, I'll painstakingly maintain my saves and refuse to loan out discs so that I can play when the expansion comes. If you go the Dead Space 2 route and just give me a new gun for multiplayer or a Resistance 3 double XP weekend, chances are I'll never come back to your game when I'm done with the single-player campaign.
I'd rather a developer go dark for six months and come back with a two-hour story such as Harley Quinn's Revenge than ever give me some character pack or even Arkham City's own Nightwing challenge maps. Lots of single-player franchises are tossing in multiplayer to try and keep gamers from selling the games back, but creators need to realize gamers love many of those games because of the single-player story. That's the DLC people want. Developers have built this awesome world, so just give us more to do in it.
Developer Rocksteady seems to get that With Harley Quinn's Revenge. Arkham City's been evacuated, but Harley's gone back in and set-up shop at the Joker’s old hideout. Batman went in after some kidnapped cops two days ago, and he hasn't been heard from since. As Robin, you begin tracking the Caped Crusader down.
Obviously playing as Robin is huge -- he has his zip kick where grapples into someone's chest and his bullet shield to get past turrets -- but it's almost more exciting to listen and watch Rocksteady expand on the game's grim ending rather than play. As soon as the DLC starts, Oracle and Robin have this conversation about how Batman hasn't been the same since the events of Arkham City -- since Joker, since Talia. Barbara says that those deaths have changed the Dark Knight, and that immediately resonated with me. Batman has always been screwed up in the head, but if his closest allies think he’s even more off… holy hell.
Harley Quinn's Revenge doesn't hold your hand. There's no time for a tutorial; go save Batman. Snipers and groups combining knife-wielding villains and stun gun foes are ready for you as soon as the game gets going, so don't expect to be eased back into combat.
The game even does a Lost-style flashback. After playing a bit as Robin and finding Batman's utility belt sans Bruce, Harley Quinn's Revenge jumps back two days and puts you in Batman's boots. Talk to Commissioner Gordon, get into the hideout, and find out what the hell is about to go wrong.
Not a bad setup and definitely one I'm anxious to play more of in just a few weeks. Sadly, the price for Harley Quinn's Revenge and if you'd be able to run around the entire Arkham City map as Robin were not revealed at my demo.
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