Batman: Arkham Asylum was already pretty room as it had Batman exploring the island that Arkham sat on along with much of the prison and its many catacombs. Rocksteady is exploding the size of the playable game world for Batman: Arkham City though as they revealed though as they have revealed that it is five times larger than its predecessor.
Not only will Batman have more space to swing, fly, and skulk around, he's also getting double the number of moves and loads of new, yet to be revealed gadgets.
"Without a doubt, the hardest part of moving the game setting from the confines of the asylum into the urban sprawl of Arkham City was simply building the environment," Rocksteady's Sefton Hill told OPM.
"Our objective in this game is not to make the biggest game we can, but to make the best game possible. Gamers who played Batman: Arkham Asylum will know how dedicated we are as a studio to injecting an incredible amount of detail into every environment we build.
"It is this attention to detail that gives our games the deep and intense atmosphere that so many players have found so compelling, and so we have had to seriously scale up our art team in order to bring the same level of detail to Arkham City, which is about 4-5 times bigger than Arkham Asylum."
Speaking about Batman's new moves, Hill said that, "Looking at the raw amount of animations in this sequel, Batman's moves have doubled in number and we also wanted to create an authentic sense of continuity from the end of Batman: Arkham Asylum, so the player will begin Batman: Arkham City with many of the same core gadgets that they unlocked in the first game.
"Batman's cutting-edge technology is a significant part of the game, so gamers can expect to see a range of totally new gadgets, as well as evolved new features built into those tools that they already enjoyed in Batman: Arkham Asylum."
Batman: Arkham City is due out sometime in the Fall of 2011 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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