Cobblepot Steel on the other hand informs the industrial nature of its borough, with squat, flat-roofed buildings and towering chimney stacks.
Wayne Tower is a modern skyscraper, set amid a landscape of high-rises, perfect for surveying crime from above and swooping in. Each borough includes a signature building, the founding families’ monuments to themselves, and each of those buildings informs the history, architectural style, and level design around it. The result is a Gotham that drastically changes depending on where you are in the city. So then we build around that to where the identity for those districts really is based off of that family.” “The families moved there, they built imposing structures within those districts. “So for us, the five boroughs, it started with the families,” says open world level design director Kristofor McMahan. Key to this take on Gotham are those five boroughs, and the worldview of the families that historically controlled them. The team didn’t just build an open world to play in – it’s truly trying to build a city. The timeline informs everything from the plot, to the gameplay, to the game’s biggest mystery, the Court of Owls conspiracy. Games Montreal created that centuries-long history early in production a whole new timeline for a whole new version of Gotham City.Īnd it isn’t merely window dressing. Which brings us to the present day, and the Gotham you’ll be exploring as Batman’s proteges in Gotham Knights – an open world as soaked in history as it is by neon light and vigilante-friendly shadow. The Waynes, meanwhile, invested their billions in New Gotham, helping advance the town into a new technological age. By the 1960s, Gotham had truly become a patchwork of industry and architecture – the Arkhams settled in North Gotham, building their famous asylum (yes, it’s in the game, and no, it’s not as you’ve previously seen it) near the leafy university. Oscar Morgan will portray a new son of Bruce Wayne's for the show, named Turner Hayes, though there have been no official announcements on whether Robins like Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Jason Todd/Red Hood, Tim Drake/Red Robin or Damian Wayne will appear.Gotham continued to transform over time – in the 1920s, the Elliots took hold of the 20th Century’s newest means of control, mass media, and built Downtown Gotham in a new art deco image. Castiel actor Misha Collins will be playing a pre-Two Face Harvey Dent, and he will be joined by Fallon Smythe as Harper Row/Blue Bird, Olivia Rose Keegan ( High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) as Duela Dent/Joker's Daughter, Navia Robinson ( The Rocketeer) as Carrie Kelley and Anna Lore ( All American) as Stephanie Brown/Spoiler.
There have been other casting announcements though, including some related to Supernatural. RELATED: Gotham Knights Set Leaks Reveal Batman's Funeral Though Supernatural alum and Batman: The Long Halloween voice actor Jensen Ackles expressed interest in playing Gotham Knights' Caped Crusader, no official casting for Bruce Wayne/Batman has been revealed as of writing.
The series is set to explore the time after Batman's death and how his adopted son and the children of Gotham's villains will carry on in the city. However, Gotham Knights will not be focusing on Batman, but his legacy.