TT Games’ strategic director and head of development Jonathan Smith opened up about adapting nearly 80 years of Batman lore into LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.
According to Smith, TT Games wanted to make sure that they represented a little bit of all Batman history. So we see stuff from the famous, popular Batman movies, like Batman or The Dark Knight. But we also have the less popular media, such as Batman and Robin in the video game too. Smith reports that nothing was off-limits for Batman.
The history is iconic with such richness and history of fantastic creators who have seared Batman into our imaginations. It is unbelievable that we get to play with that character, to spend weeks and months rewatching those films and series and replaying those games and rereading those comic books and then talking with each other. It’s been such a pleasure to be able to talk with other people who care as deeply about all these little details and then try to shape that into an experience that will reach a new, wide audience. Lego gives us such a unique lens through which some of those disparate elements can coalesce and then come into focus.
What Makes ‘LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’ Different from other LEGO Games
We’ve set out here to create dramatically new gameplay for a Lego game. It’s similar to the other Lego games that you know and love, but we’ve brought every aspect of that up to date and modernized it. And we’ve innovated in all areas. Mechanically now with Batman, we’ve got a combat experience and combat system. Batman and his partner allies have different gadgets they can use, the different enemy types and the weapons they’ll use against you are much more rich than anything we’ve delivered before. The city, technically, is aesthetically much deeper and immersive and more full of things to play with and more rewarding of exploratory traversal and just fooling around than we’ve ever been able to create before.
So while we’ve maintained our commitments to accessibility and fun for all ages, there are so many new dimensions of depth and upgrade to this new game. And, I would particularly say that by comparison with anything in the past, the traversal in the city, both grappling and gliding, but also the use of new vehicles are leaps ahead of anything we’ve done.
LEGO Batman: The Legacy of the Dark Knight is now available on all gaming platforms.
Source: Deadline.com
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