Warner Bros and DC Entertainment today announced that Batman: Arkham VR is coming to HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift beginning on the 25th of April. In order to celebrate this announcement, Warner Bros released a new PC trailer that can be viewed below.
Batman: Arkham VR is described as the first virtual reality experience to immerse players into the Dark Knight’s universe, putting them inside the Batman’s cowl like never before. PC players with HTC Vive and Oculus Rift hardware will now have the opportunity to experience Gotham City through the eyes of the World’s Greatest Detective, and delve deep into a tense Batman: Arkham mystery.
As the press release reads, players will enter a virtual reality world where they must think like Batman and utilize his legendary gadgets, unravelling a plot that threatens the lives of his closest allies.
Sefton Hill, Creative Director, Rocksteady Studios, said:
“Bringing Batman to VR was a very rewarding experience for us here at Rocksteady. The Dark Knight has always been an incredible character to work with due to his psychological depth, so it’s really exciting to use this immersive medium to delve deeper into his psyche than ever before. We’re thrilled that PC players can finally wear the cowl for themselves and take on the role of the World’s Greatest Detective with the addition of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift versions.”
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Only VR experience I care about getting on PC is Resident Evil 7.
Sony will soon have to edit their official website because “Exclusive to PlayStation VR, Batman: Arkham VR” won’t be applicable for much longer.
Re: “In order to celebrate this announcement, Warner Bros…”
The confirmation that the PSVR version was only a timed-exclusive was leaked in a Facebook advert last October.
– HA.
– Yep.
– Obviously 😛
– Well, that’s a standard PR textbook response, to be fair, but yeah, as always, while publishers undoubtedly love the hefty sums they make off of timed exclusivity deals, those bribes pale in comparison to the actual profits they make when they (inevitably) go multi-platform, in the end.
Then there’s the Rockstar way a la GTA V’s staggered release!
Ugh. Thank f*ck that particularly nasty habit hasn’t been picked up by the masses…. (yet).
Honestly, to this day, I am still amazed they didn’t do a PC version of the original PS3/X360 release just so that they could re-release the PS4/XONE version for PC later, as well.
Though, I guess they figured it was too much work to bother, or some such….. LOL.
“We’re thrilled that PC players can finally”
I never once thought they were thrilled, not after their borked AK port job, even then they aren’t excited or thrilled, because if they were honest, they would have given us the game at the same time, but it’s obvious they took the money and want to put on that fake attitude. Something which I really,really despise from some studios.
Precisely. More vacuous PR-speak from the AAA games industry that routinely takes its customers as fools.
What’s more is that if it had been successful on psvr which it clearly isn’t the exclusivity would have remained. So they are only releasing on other platforms for the sake of extra money. Not because they are exited for pc gamers.
Nailed it.
mehhhh
Another Batman game for PC? What could possibly go wrong
Hockey pads
I hope Iron Galaxy is porting the game to the PC…
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And that they slap Denuvo on it and refuse to remove it years later.
HYPED. Getting my Vive/VR PC in a few months. Happy to see this didn’t stay a dumb PSVR exclusive.
And WB recently announced Justice League and Aquaman AAA VR experiences. The hype is rising…
Ha! Indeed. Let’s all be good little consumers by blindly worshipping (insert any company name) and angrily attacking people on the internet who don’t love them as much as we do.
What about all of us who dont have VR and dont plan to buy one? Cant we play it on a monitor?