Batman: Dark Knight [X360/PS3 - Cancelled]
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The Dark Knight was a action video game loosely based on the film of the same name. The game was unofficially announced in the summer of 2007 to be developed by Pandemic Studios Brisbane as an open world Batman game.
It had been announced by EA and Pandemic Studios that it would come out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. However Pandemic Brisbane, who was responsible for developing the game, has since been shut down and the project canned.
This cancellation makes The Dark Knight the first Batman film made by Warner Bros. not to receive a video game translation. [Infos from Wikipedia]
As we can read on Kotaku (thanks to Robert Seddon for the link!), the development of Dark Knights had too many problems and it was probably the main reason why the studio was closed:
“Pandemic worked out a deal with Warner/DC and EA to make a Batman game. So Pandemic spent six months on pre-production of a Batman game. Then EA came in and said it had to be a Dark Knight game, so most of that six months’ work was thrown out. EA were forced to rush the project, as their ownership of the Batman rights would expire in December 2008. [...] Pandemic thought an open-world game would suit the property best. But few, if any staff at Pandemic Brisbane had experience making open-world games. The decision was made to use the same engine being used for Pandemic’s upcoming WWII action title Saboteur. It’s a pretty engine, but was never built for the kind of open-world game Batman was supposed to be, and this caused a ton of serious technical issues.
Some leaked screenshots were found by Superior Version in January 2009. Thanks to Borman for the contribution!
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5 Responses to Batman: Dark Knight [X360/PS3 - Cancelled]
I'M BATMAN!
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I love the idea of an open ended Batman game because I would want to mess around and punch old ladies in the cunt, I’M BATMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!
Unknown.
August 19th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Are The Problem’s For The Game Discovered Yet?. The Joker Would Have Been Cool To Fight.
A reader
June 13th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Apparently this was at first thought to be cancelled due to Heath Ledger’s untimely passing. However it was later revealed that the project was turned into Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Cadrecola
August 18th, 2011 at 2:24 am
Too bad, but we will be getting our free-roam Batman with Arkham City, hopefully. =)
Hens Bergen
September 24th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
very dissapoinment it’s so a nice game batman