It’s been a while since Gotham Knights, the rumored Batman game (WB Games Montreal) was announced officially at DC FanDome.
The Gotham Knights focus on Bat’s extended family like Robin, Red Hood, Nightwing, and Batgirl. It will present many antagonits, The Court of Owl will be the game’s main villain.
In a recent interview Patrick Redding was asked about The Court of Owls and how much infilteration is done with the Owl.
Patrick said, “Right. No, it really was what was magical and special about The Court of Owls as a new element in the Batman lore. It just was such a good fit because one, we’re kicking things off with a very shocking event and then asking the question, “What happens to Gotham City as a consequence of that?” Right? And you can start to imagine all the obvious things, but for us, at least in our interpretation of story, that becomes the inciting incident.
You don’t have this firewall, this buffer between the worst excesses of the city and its populous anymore. So an organization like The Court of Owls that’s been sitting in the shadows for a few hundred years suddenly has their opening, right? There’s that aspect of it.
The other part of it is the game is really driven by the new guard, right? It’s driven by these young heroes who are not Batman and don’t necessarily philosophically do things the same way he would. And they represent the youth and collaboration and solving certain kinds of problems with a certain kind of fervor and a certain kind of youthful energy.
Well, there’s no better antithesis to that, honestly, than The Court of Owls, which represents corrupt, old, entrenched power and wealth, it’s just twisted and has distorted and turned Gotham City into this grotesque version of an East Coast American city, right? So I think it was a really logical, very organic choice as an adversary for that group of heroes.”
Below is the full detail about the forthcoming video game, Gotham Knights:
“Gotham Knights is a brand-new open-world, third-person action RPG featuring the Batman Family as players step into the roles of Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin, a new guard of trained DC Super Heroes who must rise as the protectors of Gotham City in the wake of Batman’s death. An expansive, criminal underworld has swept through the streets of Gotham, and it is now up to these new heroes to protect the city, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops, and fear to its criminals. Players must save Gotham from a descent into chaos and reinvent themselves into their version of the Dark Knight.”
Gotham Knights will be released in 2021 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
