Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has been announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live, featuring an open-world version of Gotham you can drive around in the Batmobile.
The ambitious-looking project is being developed by TT Games, the studio behind Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and numerous other licensed Lego games.
Included in the game are characters and levels that pay reference to various familiar Batman movies and comics, while combat looks similar to the Batman Arkham games. Oh, and Matt Berry is playing Bane.
TT Games once held a near monopoly over licensed Lego video games for PC and consoles, with new titles released on an annual basis. Between 2005 and 2022, the company launched at least 20 Lego games, with multiple entries based on Marvel, DC, Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises. The company dabbled with the toys-to-life genre with its earlier multiverse project Lego Dimensions, and sandbox gameplay in Lego Worlds.
Now, TT Games’ new take on Lego Batman arrives during a different era, with a range of Lego games available from other developers, the toy franchise deeply integrated into Fortnite, and a lengthy (for Lego games) wait since 2022’s Lego Skywalker: The Skywalker Saga. It’ll be fascinating to see more of what the developer has been building.
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