A New Arkham Game Should Endeavor to Best Batman’s Coolest Batsuit

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A New Arkham Game Should Endeavor to Best Batman’s Coolest Batsuit



It wouldn’t be an Arkham game without Batman donning a previously unseen Batsuit and Batman: Arkham Shadow doesn’t disappoint with Batsuit V3.72. Funny enough, that’s only one ‘suit’ Bruce Wayne wears in Batman: Arkham Shadow as he also disguises himself as Irving “Matches” Malone in order to have himself incarcerated at Blackgate so he can attempt to locate the Rat King. It makes perfect sense why Batman: Arkham Shadow doesn’t have bonus Batsuit skins for various reasons, and yet it seems inevitable that a future Arkhamverse game—flatscreen or otherwise—will.

Batman: Arkham Shadow recently launched its Game of the Year update (v1.4) with a Batsuit, seemingly inspired by Batman: Arkham Knight’s Batsuit V8.05, that has a gold bat symbol/batarangs/accents.

Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Knight’s individual Batman Beyond skins demonstrate Rocksteady’s admiration for the titular animated series, while both games, as well as Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, have provided a diverse catalog of miscellaneous skins ranging from Blackest Night and Red Son to Flashpoint and Zur-En-Arrh. That said, if a wider array of Batsuits is deemed necessary in a Shadow sequel, let alone any new Arkham game, it’d be a tall order worth trying to accomplish to feature a Batsuit as iconic and rare as Batman’s Extreme Environment (XE) suit from Batman: Arkham Origins’ Cold, Cold Heart DLC.

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Batman: Arkham Origins’ XE Suit is One of the Most Iconic Arkhamverse Batsuits

As far as new story-related skins go, only Batman: Arkham Origins’ Cold, Cold Heart DLC and Batman: Arkham Knight feature a debut Batsuit necessary to the narrative. In Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman requires Batsuit V8.03 as an upgrade that’ll enable him to incapacitate groups of enemies (multi-enemy takedowns that amplify stealth and are fueled by ‘fear’), eject from the Batmobile, and grapnel-boost at ridiculous speeds. However, in Batman: Arkham Origins’ Cold, Cold Heart, Batman needs the XE suit so he can safely free victims encased in ice and withstand severe temperatures inside GothCorp.

Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth had conveniently designed and built the XE suit prior to knowing about Victor Fries or his cryoweapons and it becomes available around halfway through the two-hour-long DLC.

The XE suit is bulky without any of the encumbrance associated with its weight. An insulated armor akin to that of The Dark Knight Returns, the XE suit is complete with piercing white lenses and a face mask shield that muffles Roger Craig Smith’s voice. Plus, between the suit’s thick plating and padding is wiring that glows orange and radiates with thermal energy. Therefore, seeing Batman go toe-to-toe with Mr. Freeze in Cold, Cold Heart is phenomenal as both characters have mechanized suits of armor fit for inclemency.

If a New Batman Game Can’t Beat the XE Suit, It Should Reprise It

It’s a terrible shame that the XE suit didn’t become a skin players could swap to in Batman: Arkham Origins as, despite it increasing the character model’s size, its gameplay was nearly identical with orange Thermal Gloves effects substituting blue Shock Glove effects. The only unique distinction is that the XE suit comes equipped with thermal-charged Batarangs that break ice formations, resulting in an added layer of strategy in predator encounters where Batman is able to cut stalactites down and knock out enemies underneath them.

Alas, this, too, would have made for excellent challenge maps. Either way, a sequel to Batman: Arkham Shadow could reasonably feature Mr. Freeze as it’s presumed he and Batman have at least one more tussle before meeting again in Batman: Arkham City and donning the XE suit again could be great under such circumstances. Otherwise, the onus is on any new Arkham game to try to conceive a Batsuit that rivals or outdoes the XE suit in terms of how epic its aesthetic and functions are.

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