Monolith making FPS Gotham City Imposters for download

What the hell…

Seriously, that sounds like the stupidest concept for a game.

First,I was like new project gotham(racing) then I read FPS,4vs4 Monolith,Fear and thought its new IP and THEN I figure that is freaking BATMAN!! Yea …stupidest concept for a game agree.

I can imagine how this went down with Warner Bros. executives at a brain-storming meeting for Arkham City cross-promotion:

A: “Gamers LOVE FPS, so… why don’t we add the two together?!?!”
B: “Brilliant!”
C: “It TOTALLY makes sense!”

noooooooo this must be a joke seriously

Warner’s literally just press released it for the UK crowd.

This should be an interesting one O_o

http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/116/1168524p1.html

IGN are saying this is a Third person shooter not a FPS?

I understand how everyone is all “this is a shit idea,” but what if the game comes out….and its actually fun?

Everyone seems to be bashing this pretty quickly.
i think it sounds quite interesting, could be fun

@8 – They’re definitely wrong, then. Press release says first-person shooter. Either that or Warner was somehow taken over whilst writing the press release and decided to write first, not third-person.

this sounds like an awful idea

@9: Well it is Monolith. So let’s wait and see.

#9 “I understand how everyone is all “this is a shit idea,””

Me too – it’s because this is the internet, and particularly, it’s the section of the internet dedicated to gamers… the home of “meh”.

/also reckons this could be fun. If the psn and xbla markets are allowing space for big name companies to come up with ideas as wild as this and run with them then hoo-fucking-ray I say.

Actually, this could be awesome if its a team playing in first person as goons, Vs. someone playing as the Batman in third person. Sort of like that Splinter Cell MP.

Godddddammmit. I’ve been waiting for a new AAA title from Monolith for ages and what I get is a downloadable Batman shooter..

Erm how does a shooter in the Batman universe work? None of the hero’s use them & Batman himself has a understandable aversion.

If I could have a game set in that universe, i’d like one based on the series Gotham Central. Being a ordinary cop in the GCPD would be a good twist

@1 My thought exactly.

“You’ll be able to customise your loadouts, your character and your costume through various gametypes and maps.”
Oh ok, so it Call of Batman then?

Thought you all might like to see this:
http://kotaku.com/5802443/before-playing-gotham-city-impostors-read-batman-impostors

I… er…. what?

BATMAN DOESN’T SHOOT PEOPLE.

I don’t wanna be a dick but… Seriously? That’s the worst Batman-related idea I have ever read! Hope I’ll be proven wrong but I can’t seem to imagine how that could work out being a good game.
First, Batman doesn’t have a freakin’ team. Ok I got it, they’re impostors blablabla… So basically I’m to be a brainless wannabe hero with a gun in Gotham City? No thanks, I’d rather be Batman or a brainless wannabe hero in another setup. Second, assuming we play impostors, why the frak would we play as teams?!? How does it make sense that someone who pretends to be Batman works with other batmen?!? And last but not least, there are waaaay too many FPSes around (and shitty ones at that).
I’m not usually one to criticize a game before seeing it but, come on! You gotta see why this concept is utter BS!

Wow, the Kotaku write-up makes it sound even worse than it already did. Well done, Warner! That’s quite the achievement.

Added the art from the press release in there.

The artwork really doesn’t help. At all.