Pandemic doing Batman game?

By Robert Purchese Published 3 April, 2008

Multiple sources suggesting so.

Mercenaries developer Pandemic is rumoured to be working on a Batman game to tie-in with the upcoming film.

Both Kotaku and Videogaming247 claim to have confirmation, as did IGN before it pulled its story.

Rumours Pandemic had been handed the rights to the Dark Knight licence began to emerge last May on Kotaku and IGN .

Could be rather good news, given the track record of Pandemic and the fresh quality focus of owner and publisher EA. Not to mention the fact that the edgier more sinister Dark Knight series seems to be the focus of the whispered title.

EA has been contacted for comment.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Spanky #1 4 years ago

    I wonder if this is why Mercenaries 2 has been delayed so much?

  • RandomTerrain #2 4 years ago

    I've never heard of a decent Batman game before. Could this be the first?

  • mattigan #3 4 years ago

    There was a good one on the NES

  • cerebralbored #4 4 years ago

    And the Batman Returns game on the SNES, made by Konami.

  • Olemak #5 4 years ago

    Sonds pretty plausible. Pandemic seems to be a competent developer, but I've never actually played a Pandemic developed game. The games they've made in the past are just not interesting to me. I'm sure they're techically accomplished, though.

    it would be cool if they'd manage to make a decent batman game; being a long-time fan of old Batsy I would enjoy playing one if it was worthwile. But if it's standard movie tie-in crap; I'd rather get my super-hero kicks from InFamous (seeing as Crackdown 2 is unlikely to happen).

  • Spanky #6 4 years ago

    The batman begins game was okay-ish. I quite enjoyed it.

    Batman the movie on the Nes was brilliant.
    http://nintendo8 .com/game/11/batman/

  • bdgr #7 4 years ago

    Batman (game of fthe first film) on the C64 or Amiga was class!

  • DanWhitehead #8 4 years ago

    The Adventures of Batman & Robin on the SNES was pretty great.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #9 4 years ago

    I think a sort of open-world Mercenaries style game would be terrific. Taking place across Gotham, lots of crimes happening all the time, with "gangs" belonging to different supervillains controlling different areas of the city...

    Could be great! Especially if they keep Robin in it and allow for co-op :-)

  • Royal Fool #10 4 years ago

    Eurocom did Batman Begins, and although I'm sure it sold well thanks to a partnership with EA, the game itself wasn't very good.

    Sad that their sole original IP in many years, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, sold terribly but was one of their few genuinely good titles.

    I never finished it because of a game-breaking bug that screwed up my save, however..

  • Triggerhappytel #11 4 years ago

    Spanky - "The batman begins game was okay-ish. I quite enjoyed it."

    Consolevania disagree

  • MrObycyek #12 4 years ago

    I think this game will be out to coincide with the movie's DVD release in either late October or early November. This is one of the reasons that the companies involved have been so quiet. Apparently the game will be more open-ended than Batman Begins which I actually did enjoy as well. I hope EA have learned the lessons from Superman Returns. A game that had it's main story mode ripped out and replaced with a series of sub missions which were poorly disguised as the main campaign. That game was originally supposed to be out at the time of the cinema release but it was nowhere near ready and so it was put back to the DVD release but alas the game was stripped down and actually had another development team come in towards the end of the game's production. Apart from the flying and aerial combat which was superb the game was a disgrace to the Superman name.

    This has been a MrObycyek Investigation. "Hold on to your pants!"
    Edited by 1 at 04/04/08 @ 14:22