Visually enhanced versions of the last-gen single player hits Batman Arkham Asylum and Batman Arkham City are getting bundled and sold for $50 as Batman Return To Arkham, according to the gameâs publisher, Warner Brothers.
Warner is promising âimproved graphics, as well as upgraded models, environments, lighting, effects and shadersâ as well as all of the gamesâ downloadable content.
The games were developed by Rocksteady and the port is being handled by Virtuos a large but low-profile studio that has done everything from the Heavy Rain port to work on Reyâs speeder in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (!).
The excellent 2009 Asylum plays as a fairly linear adventure on an island where Batman faces off with his most demented enemies and is still considered by some as the best game in the series. It was one of the gamingâs great overachievers, coming out at a time of low expectations for licensed games and stunning players with its smooth melee combat, aggressive stealth, strong voice acting and terrific overall simulation of what it might be like to be Batman prowling after villains. The superb 2011 sequelCity is more of an open-world game with even more heroes and villains and playable Catwoman side-sequences.
Return To Arkham is coming out on July 26 release Xbox One and PS4. Thereâs no PC version, which, well, maybe thatâs erring on the safe side. The non-Rocksteady-developed (but still pretty good) Batman Arkham Origins is not included in the remastered bundle.
