Check out Batman: Arkham Asylum

The next big Batman game is coming in on the heels of The Dark Knight.  Unfortunately it won't be out this year and thankfully it won't be based on the movie as movie-to-game translations generally suck. 

Batman: Arkham Asylum is due out sometime next year on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.  No crappy Wii port planned at this time.  The game takes place in the infamous Gotham prison/nut house, Arkham Asylum. I don't know if you get to spend some time out in Gotham at this point as the screen shots give nothing of the sort away at this point.

The other awesome news?  Kevin Conroy who did the voice work of Batman in The Animated Series (the definitive Batman voice if you ask me) is going to do the same on this game.  And to top it off Mark "too cool for Skywalker" Hamill will be picking up where he left in the Batman cartoons as the Joker. 

The last decent Batman game was "Vengeance" and that was almost 7 years ago which was based on the animated series.  It is time for someone to portray this franchise properly in the gaming world.  I like the art style so far so hopefully it doesn't turn in to a boring, repetitive, beat um up game.  They are trying to focus on the "detective aspect" as well which have a "CSI like" style featuring forensic puzzles.  This could be really sweet or it could really bog down the game down; hopefully the former. 

Bats has always been one of my favorite super heroes after Wolverine and the X-men so make me proud Rocksteady Studios.

Check out some more screen shots thanks to the crew at Shacknews.