Batman Arkham City Trailer 2

This trailer was on the Video Game Awards on Spike Saturday night. Good God does it look awesome. If the game play is even a quarter as good as the cinematics here this game is going to be freaking awesome. The fact that it incorporates Hugo Strange whets my appetite for this game even more.  Hugo Strange was one of Batman's earliest adversaries and he has been a mainstay in the upper echelon of his enemies since then. He is a mad psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with Batman and eventually figures out his secret identity. He uses this knowledge to try and tear Batman's psyche apart. His greatest desire is to destroy Batman so he can become Batman.

This excites me for Batman: Arkham City because of the psychological aspect of the first game. The Scarecrow sequences from Arkham Asylum went deep in to the Batman's motivations right down to his reliving the murder of his parents in a playable albeit on rails sequence. How much more so will it be with this game? I can't wait.

To top it off Batman in this game will be voiced by the great Kevin Conroy. The voice of Batman for the past twenty years. Since Batman: The Animated Series. It also sees the return of Mark Hamil as the Joker as well as many other voices from the classic DC animated universe. Batman: Arkham Asylum was roundly declared the best superhero game of all time when it came out. That is a hell of a lot to live up to with the sequel. That said so far I have seen nothing that would lead me to doubt that Rocksteady will not only reach but exceed those expectations.