Cancelled Batman game sounds like a proper Arkham Knight sequel
Before Gotham Knights or Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a Batman game under the name of Project Sabbath was apparently cancelled by Warner Bros. Montreal
23rd Jan 2024 16:14
Images via Rocksteady Studios | WB Montreal
Cancelled Batman game sounds like a proper Arkham Knight sequel
Before Gotham Knights or Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a Batman game under the name of Project Sabbath was apparently cancelled by Warner Bros. Montreal
23rd Jan 2024 16:14
Images via Rocksteady Studios | WB Montreal
Name us some of the best gaming trilogies and you'll likely come up with Gears of War, the GTA 3D Trilogy, and BioShock. Let's also hear it for Rocksteady Studios' Arkham games, giving us a gritty trilogy akin to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight saga.
From 2009's Arkham Asylum, we spread our wings for 2011's Arkham City (arguably the series' best), then capped things off with 2015's Arkham Knight. While Arkham Knight was arguably the weakest entry, we were still hoping for more chapters in the story.
Project Sabbath is the Batman game we'll never see
Rocksteady has continued the Arkhamverse, however, it's not like we expected. Instead of a full-blown Arkham Knight sequel, we're focusing on a different crop of characters via Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. We know some familiar faces are stopping by, but it's not the sequel we hoped for.
Now, an interesting reveal from the depths of gaming what ifs has reared its head. Although not a Rocksteady game, Warner Bros. Montreal was apparently working on Project Sabbath - a Batman game with Bruce Wayne's son as its lead.
According to voice actor James Keaton, he was due to play Damian Wayne in Project Sabbath. Speaking during a Twitch livestream, Keaton said, "It was a bummer. But they leaked everything, the whole plotline, not only the enemies and villains and the rogues gallery, but also the concept art for them."
Hyping what will never be, Keaton said, "They were doing such a different take on so many of the rogues gallery it gave away everything that was different about the game. So, it kinda sucked." The most interesting part is that Keaton claims it wasn't going to be part of the Arkhamverse, but a "totally different thing."
Rocksteady can give us an Arkham Knight sequel
We heard various whispers of a Damian-centric game rising from the ashes of Arkham Knight, and even though Rocksteady was never attached, there were rumours that the next game would focus on Damian taking on the Court of Owls. Instead, concept art for the mystery Project Sabbath emerged from WB Montreal.
Things get even more complicated when we remember WB Montreal worked on Arkham Origins as the black sheep of the Arkhamverse family. Finally, it was the studio that also headed up the middling Gotham Knights, which also put the Court of Owls as its big bad.
Word of a Gotham Knights sequel hasn't been confirmed yet, but in the meantime, Rocksteady is confirmed to be heading back to Gotham City in its post-release Kill the Justice League roadmap. There was a tantalising tease of a new Batman at the end of Arkham Knight, and nine years later, we could finally get an answer.
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