How Robin plays in Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady's Dax Ginn describes Arkham City's Robin as an "explosions specialist," making him play very differently to Batman. "It's not a case that we've just reskinned him," he said.
While developer Rocksteady has yet to show off any gameplay footage of the Boy Wonder in action, Robin will be a playable character in its upcoming Batman: Arkham City. Rocksteady's Dax Ginn describes Batman's partner-in-heroism as an "explosions specialist," making him play very differently to Batman. "It's not a case that we've just reskinned him," he said.
"Because Robin only appears in the challenge maps, our focus is on taking him in a direction not seen before," Ginn told the PlayStation.Blog. "To fit in our world then he needs to be hard-hitting and have abilities that are approaching the potency of Batman’s, so he has a bow staff and shield, and he is an explosions specialist, with vision augmentation that allows him to identify explosives in the environment."
Robin will be available at launch exclusively at Best Buy. A Warner Bros. representative later confirmed to us that the character will be available as paid DLC after launch.
Batman: Arkham City is headed to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 18.
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Rocksteady's Dax Ginn describes Arkham City's Robin as an "explosions specialist," making him play very differently to Batman. "It's not a case that we've just reskinned him," he said.-
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in the comics, depending on which Robin, the biggest differences were usually less strength, more acrobatic/flexible, and 'witty' banter, I don't personally remember any of them being particularly prone to explosives but I could be wrong
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first second, the first Robin became Nightwing, and even then the second Robin came back later to be the Red Hood
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Holy exclusive characters batman!
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Batman is named after a bat. Robin is named after a little bird. Honestly, he's screwed from the start. It's like those characters Hawk and Dove... what kind of guy wants to be a Dove? Next to a hawk? Weak. That's why they retconned Dove into a woman; now Dove almost seems cool. I wish Robin had always been a girl.
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Yeah, that probably would've worked better, or had him kinda blood thirsty so he gets his name from the color of his enemies once he's done making them bleed all over.
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If Robin was more like Dexter he would appeal more to the people on this site.
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No one wants to play as Raiden
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