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Can Rocksteady Make Another Hero Great?

Rocksteady Studios prior to August 2009, was known only for the mediocre shooter Urban Chaos: Riot Response. Then they released Batman: Arkham Asylum. Up until that point, not a single developer has ever successfully created a experience to make you believe you are the true Dark Knight of Gotham, but Rocksteady created an enthralling experience that no decent game player should miss. Rocksteady is now heading up the sequel to the highly reviewed game. The strength and cunning of Bruce Wayne was wrapped in a cocoon of an engrossing story and beautifully rendered environments. Now you begin to wonder, if Rocksteady can create one game with superhero status, why not another. Here is a list of other superheroes that deserve a Arkham Asylum treatment that Rocksteady may be the only one to provide.

Spiderman

Spiderman - The Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman of New York has been almost exclusively tied down by movie licenses. The few freelance attempts to get you flying high in the Big Apple have been well-intentioned, but didn't get what Peter Parker really deserves. New York is filled to the brim with low-life scum and dangerous gangsters, but you never really feel like they are trying to be criminals. In most games, they just appear out of nowhere and start beating up cars, trying to rob stores or hurt people. Rocksteady would need to create a New York that can truly be saved. Actually allow the criminals to steal a car or rob a store and you must actually stop them. If you fail to stop them, New York is a worse place and Spiderman should be booed by the citizens. If you save the day, people should cheer and beg for an autograph. I think Rocksteady can take Spiderman and give his hometown of New York a pulse, making Spidey the only doctor nearby when it seizes. Wrap it in well thought-out web-slinging and heinous villains and you'll be climbing the Daily Bugle in no time.

Iron Man

Iron Man - Iron Man has had few tries at video game fame. The few times he did get his chances blundered like Windows Vista. What will it take to bring the Iron Avenger into the spotlight. Tony Stark's suit is one of the greatest weapon man has ever created and should feel as such. Walls should crumble under his thumb and his strength should be just as menacing as his weapons. Of course, he is human and he isn't immortal. Bullets should dent the suit and should scratch up the paint.The real problem is that few of Iron Man's enemies can present a real and obvious threat to Iron Man at full strength and most of them cannot, or should not, be mixed together. It will be a challenge for Rocksteady, but bringing the thrill of being the Armored Avenger into the gaming world would be a feat well worth undertaking.

The Hulk

The Hulk - Robert Banner is not exactly a stranger to video games. He has had several appearances and made some excellent headway, but nothing worthy of his nearly limitless strength. The pure unadulterated destruction he can wreak is in itself hard to compact into a game without feeling too sandbox-ish. Making a world that can be bent to the will of the player through brute strength cannot possibly be boring. Turning cars into boxing gloves and clawing through cement to scale buildings is something worth considering. The sheer amount of foes that can be thrown at Hulk at once could be mind-boggling with the right team at the helm and there are plenty of other villains that present a good challenge to him. In short, Rocksteady could have no problem creating a great Hulk game, with the right mindset.

Overall, Rocksteady Studios has already provenit can take acomic book characterand bring him to life in living color to defeat the forces against him in a spectacular fashion. Creating a new playground for the superheroes to play with cannot possibly hurt them.