"Batman: Arkham Origins" will give players the chance to play as the Caped Crusader at the very beginning of his career, but some DLC announced for the game will take players even earlier into Batman's life. The Initiation DLC that is part of the game's season pass will allow players to play as Bruce Wayne as he trains in Asia to become Batman.
Guillaume Voghel, the producer for the game, spoke to Eurogamer during EGX 2013, and provided new details about the DLC and how it deviates from the main story of Arkham Origins:
"You play as Bruce Wayne learning to be a ninja. That's a really cool one. Narratively there's some added content that will give players a little more background story."
Initiation DLC will have players learning how to become Batman from "his greatest teacher, Kirigi," who is the man responsible for training Ra's al Ghul and his League of Assassins, some of Batman's most fearsome foes. Voghel elaborated on what gamers can expect during this DLC add-on for Arkham Origins.
"[But] it's not League of Assassins, it's ninja-related...It's when he learned to be a ninja and learned those techniques. He goes to a monastery - custom content was created for the DLC. You'll be in Asia in the monastery. The team did a great job on that, it looks really good."
Another big add-on for the game - which will come with the game and won't be a separate DLC purchase - is the I Am The Night difficulty, which Voghel revealed when discussing how long the game's content will last:
"The main narrative arc and side missions last about 12 hours, and then you have all the collectibles. To get 100 per cent of that will take much, much longer. We have a new difficulty level, New Game Plus is coming back - that's really difficult - and when you're done with that there's I Am The Night mode - which is no saves and one life."
The game's creative director, Eric Holmes, quickly clarified Voghel's statements about I Am Night Mode on Twitter, ensuring gamers that players will in fact be able to save, but that dying will result in players going back to the title screen. Playing the whole game through in one sitting without dying sounds insane, so it is a good thing that players will be able to save their progress and try beating the game in this extreme setting at their leisure.
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