Tue, Apr 20, 2010 | 03:18 BST

Batman voice actor: Arkham Asylum 2 to be “really dark,” will include Two-Face

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Afraid Rocksteady’s gonna pull a fast one on us with Arkham Asylum 2 and replace Batman and his rogue’s gallery with Adam West and his famously kooky bat-band of bat-villains and bat-gadgets?

Well don’t be. According to Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy, Arkham Asylum 2′s going to be so dark that you might have to readjust the brightness on your TV to see it. Well, ok, not really, but you get what we mean.

“It’s really, really dark,” Conroy said during a panel at the Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo. “It involves a lot of the villains and it goes to that area – it’s that dark.”

He also compared the game’s tone to Batman: The Return of the Joker, which got so many con-goers quivering with anticipation that it registered as a seismic event.

In addition, Conroy managed to blurt that Two-Face and his ugly mug will be featured in Arkham Asylum 2.

“There’s a very complicated cast. A lot of villains are in it. I’ll just leave it at that!” he backpeddled.

Maybe it would’ve been better to let Adam West do the talking after all.

We kid. Mostly. More through the link.

Thanks, IGN.

18 comments

#1

psxman
20/04/10, 4:18 am

^ Adverts? What is this sick filth?

Also, Return of the Joker was awesome, well except for the censoring, but hey. That’s life now-a-days.

#2

Blerk
20/04/10, 8:36 am

Really looking forward to this. Bats 1 was fantastic!

#3

mington
20/04/10, 9:31 am

expect cat woman and penguin as well, if they’re trying to out do/match the first games roster of badies, then who are the other main baddies…

and considering its an already established Gotham where bats has already put away most of these baddies

i expect cat women…and i expect a history ;)

maybe the penguin will want to be the mayor of the new criminal Gotham

#4

The Hindle
20/04/10, 11:31 am

Apparently Mr Freeze, Tlaia al ghul are also in it. I hope they dont put to many baddies in it though.
I have faith in you though Rocksteady and they should take inspiration from Mgs and Gow when designing the boss battles.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=243423

#5

mington
20/04/10, 11:40 am

cool, Mr freeze as a sympathetic character? well all he cares about is keeping his wife frozen, maybe he’ll need batmans help

i think Ra al Ghul will be dead, they wont have him and his daughter in the game…actually doesn’t Ra al Ghul appear in the database thingy in the first game, was he dead?

Bruce wayne and Tlaia al ghul are love interests in the comics, but she is a baddy, avenging her father/carrying on his work stuff like that

#6

The Hindle
20/04/10, 11:42 am

Ras al gul was dead but if you went back to see his body at the end of the game it was gone,

/cue spooky music

#7

mington
20/04/10, 11:43 am

funny how the Mr Freeze actor can give away the character and his story…but wont do the voice

#8

The Hindle
20/04/10, 11:44 am

:D yea Actors these days bloody useless

#9

mington
20/04/10, 11:47 am

he had a body? i can’t remember was it in the libary showcase

I think Tlaia al ghul will be a NEW baddy that batman doesn’t already know about, as for everyone else he will.

do you think they will be in contact with the batman film people, in case they accidentally do the same story, as Tlaia al ghul could turn up in the next movie

#10

The Hindle
20/04/10, 11:52 am

Yea man it was in the morgue you could only see his foot though. Not sure about the movie people tbh Warner own them now so you never know there is a chance.

#11

mington
20/04/10, 11:57 am

oh right. i remember seeing cat womans claws and penguins umbrella so we know those guys are established baddies already.

I’m interested in the fun they’ll have with clayface :)

#12

The Hindle
20/04/10, 12:00 pm

There is so much you could do with Clayface, im thinking this is going to be the game version of No mans land so far.

#13

mington
20/04/10, 12:12 pm

Whats also proper awesome is that they take there own spin on character design, if they are going darker then expect some really evil looking baddies

also, whos going to bring the horror element to this one now that the scarecrows been eaten

i hope they make two face proper insane, done right, the unpredictability of two face could make for an awesome story changing drastically on the flip of a coin

i’d love it for him to flip a coin and kill robin in the first ten minutes of the game BOOM

#14

The Hindle
20/04/10, 12:20 pm

Chris o donnel as Robin he would bring the horror element to it :D

#15

mington
20/04/10, 12:21 pm

:P holey rusted metal batman

Robin needs in, and his costume needs rubber nipples

#16

The Hindle
20/04/10, 12:29 pm

Nooooooooooooooooooooo :D the horror the horror

#17

Moonwalker1982
20/04/10, 1:45 pm

Batman: AA was my favorite game of 2009, i can’t wait for this one. I really don’t believe for a second that it’s coming this year, and neither does it need to be. Let them take their time and we’ll get another incredibly awesome game.

#18

mington
20/04/10, 2:06 pm

…with rubber nipples

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