The game's main storyline is set five years before that of 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum and follows a younger and less refined Batman who has a bounty placed on his head by crime lord Black Mask, drawing eight of the world's greatest assassins to Gotham City on Christmas Eve.
Characters
Batman (Roger Craig Smith)
Alfred Pennyworth (Martin Jarvis)
Black Mask (Brian Bloom)
Bane (J. B. Blanc)
Deadshot
Deathstroke (Mark Rolston)
Copperhead (Rosa Salazar)
Firefly
Electrocutioner (Steven Blum)
Killer Croc
Shiva
GCPD Captain James Gordon (Michael Gough)
Joker (Troy Baker)
Penguin (Nolan North)
Mad Hatter (Peter MacNicol)
Anarky
Alberto Falcone
Barbara Gordon
Setting
The events of Arkham Origins are set approximately five years before Batman: Arkham Asylum, in the middle of winter in fictional Gotham City. Batman is an experienced crime-fighter in the second year of his career, but has not yet become the veteran superhero portrayed in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. He remains a mysterious force with even the police unsure if he is a vigilante, a myth or supernatural. Batman has battled with traditional criminals and gangsters and is used to being stronger and faster than his targets. However, on a snowy Christmas Eve, he is confronted by far more dangerous foes: eight professional assassins aiming to collect the $50 million bounty put on Batman's head by Black Mask. Rogues such as the Joker take advantage of the assassins' arrival to launch their own nefarious schemes, while Black Mask's henchmen help instigate a rise in crime and gang activity in the city.
The Gotham City Police Department, led by Commissioner Loeb, is thoroughly corrupt, and Branden leads his SWAT team in hunting down Batman to claim the bounty for themselves. The incorruptible Captain James Gordon is one of the most unpopular members of the force. The GCPD are aware of "the Batman", and do not condone his actions towards criminality. Batman's relationship with his ally Alfred is strained. Batman sees Alfred as a reminder of his parents' deaths, and an overbearing parental figure, while Alfred sees Batman as a spoiled child squandering his inheritance on his vigilante crusade, causing the two to repeatedly come into conflict.
Old Gotham, the segment of Gotham City which will become the Arkham City prison, is not yet walled off, and contains slums, lower buildings, a large shopping mall, and docks where Penguin's ship Final Offer is stationed. Within Final Offer, Penguin has added a casino, fighting pit and sales floor with weapons and ammunition. Across the bridge from Old Gotham is New Gotham, the more modern metropolitan area of the city filled with towering skyscrapers.
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Comes out today. I can't wait for this game as was the case with Arkham City. Although I'm sceptical about how the story will be without Paul Dini, who co-wrote Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. But Corey May, who was the lead writer for the Assassins Creed games joins in. Anyone else looking forward to it?
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