[Multi] Arkham City's New Robin

[Multi] Arkham City's New Robin
In an earlier announcement Rocksteady revealed that Robin would be a playable character in Batman Arkham City in the Challenge Maps. If the game is pre-ordered at certain retailers you can receive early access to the character, but everyone at some point will be able to unlock or download Robin.

The Robin in this game will be the third Robin from the comics, Tim Drake. From the sounds of it Robin will only be available in the Challenge Maps and so the Tim Drake Robin may be the best for this. In the comics, Tim Drake broke away from Batman and started his own fighting career as Red Robin. Perhaps we’ll see this incarnation of Robin in the final game? Senior Concept Artist Kan Mutfic recently gave the “final word” on his team’s vision for Robin in the game:

"We wanted to create a Robin that players would identify as a contemporary character and move away from the traditional "Boy Wonder" image that most people know. Our vision of Robin is the one of a troubled young individual that is calm and introverted at times but very dangerous and aggressive if provoked. The shaved head is inspired by cage fighters, because we thought that Robin might be doing that in his spare time to keep him on his toes. Still, we kept all the classic trademarks of Robin's appearance, such as the red and yellow colors of his outfit, the cape and the mask.

We really hope that people will discover our Robin as one of their new favorite characters in the Batman universe. He is back and he means business."

Robin certainly looks much more intimidating in this new vision. Are you excited to see this new version of the “Boy Wonder”? Or would you have preferred that Rocksteady simply left Robin alone all together? Either way I suppose we’ll find out how they did when the game hits store shelves this October.

Written by: Alex Donovan

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RE: [Multi] Arkham City's New Robin
They thought..Robin would be a cagefighter?

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Eurgh.

I like the design, but cmon..

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