Continue the adventures of the Caped Crusader online, in the ultimate battle between Batman, Robin, the Joker and Bane!Warner Brothers Montreal have today announced that their upcoming superhero open-world video game Batman: Arkham Origins will feature an online multiplayer component. Titled 'Invisible Predator Online', the new mode will take place within the realms of the Origins narrative timeline, but equally will introduce later elements of DC characters and locales which couldn't feature in the main campaign.
Case in point, one Dick Grayson. Better known to fans as Robin, this Boy Wonder won't play a part in the overarching single-player campaign of Origins, but players will have the chance to control the character and utilize his skills in the multiplayer component. In essence, this component is divided into three character classes, each randomly assigned at the beginning of matches by a roulette spinner: the Dynamic Duo, supervillains such as the Joker and Bane, and a host of the latter pair's elite henchmen waging war on the streets of Gotham in third-person shooter gameplay sections.
Make no mistake, this decision on Montreal's part is going to prove controversial with fans of the Arkham series. After all, Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum and Arkham City both fared well while devoid of a multiplayer mode, so why fix what's not already broken? That's a question which many critics are using to describe this prequel, and thus in this case it's difficult to oppose them, seeing as this deviation from the formula could prove Origins' downfall if it's handled incorrectly by secondary developer Splash Damage. Catch the first trailer for this ambitious new component below.
Batman: Arkham Origins glides onto Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo WiiU and Microsoft Windows on October 25th.
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