Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City is an upcoming sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Plot
A year after the chaotic events of Batman: Arkham Asylum, both the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane and Blackgate Prison remain gutted, the former in a massive breakout launched by the inmates and the latter due to a mysterious fire. The administrator of Arkham, mayoral candidate Quincy Sharp, soon takes advantage of the Batman's defeat of the Joker at Arkham and claims the credit himself for bringing the asylum back under control. This is partially to salvage his image, in tatters after the single worst asylum riot took place at a crucial time when Sharp was trying to convince the people of Gotham City to vote for him.

This is successful, and Sharp is elected mayor of Gotham. His first act is to announce ruined Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison both unfit to house criminals. He then undertakes a bold new project: To move all the former inmates of incarceration at both places into a walled-off urban district, Arkham City. This will be a city only for villains, and is made up of Gotham City's most notorious slums, including Crime Alley. To guard the perimeter of Arkham City the mayor does away with Arkham Asylum's old security force and replaces them with professional mercenaries from a private military organization, TYGER. Once all the criminals are trapped inside the prison city, they are told they may do as they please, but there is only one rule: Do not escape. This is supported by the TYGER mercenary forces, who enforce this policy through the liberal use of their firearms on any escaping denizens of Arkham City. Since the entire population of Arkham is made up of criminals running wild on the streets, Sharp secretly hopes they will destroy each other inside walled confinement instead of committing crimes in Gotham.

With the criminals free to do whatever they want short of escaping, bloody turf wars erupt as various supervillains carve up Arkham City among themselves. A mysterious figure named Dr. Hugo Strange, an Arkham psychiatrist, is placed at the helm of the project by Sharp, but little is known about his objectives or his shadowy past, and rumors soon run rampant that he is up to horrible things behind Arkham City's walls. Those who try and find out too much about Arkham or Strange one by one mysteriously vanish by night, and it is implied most end up inside the city themselves, to be torn apart by the inmates. Batman, wary of Sharp and even more so of Strange, monitors Arkham City for several months, believing that the entire thing has been a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

His pretext to infiltrate the place himself comes when Catwoman, who has no gang and is working as a freelancer in Arkham City, is captured by Two-Face and his henchmen. Two-Face, a new inmate, is short on men and weapons and cannot afford the costly gang battles he is already embroiled in. In order to help achieve dominance and eliminate a potential rival, the villain announces he will publicly execute Catwoman. By doing so he also hopes that this will win him some support among the criminal populance. Given their past, Batman has no choice but to enter Arkham to save her and uncover what's really going on. With a brand-new bag of tricks, the Dark Knight might just survive the night locked up in an anarchic zone with all of the city's worst freaks and madmen.

Heroes/Allies

 * Batman/Bruce Wayne
 * Alfred Pennyworth
 * Catwoman
 * Oracle
 * Robin/Tim Drake (Playable only as DLC)
 * Commissioner Gordon
 * Gotham City Police Department
 * Jack Ryder
 * Holly Robinson
 * Batman/Terry McGinnis (Only as a character skin)
 * Bane
 * Batman (Earth One) (Only as character skin)
 * Batman (Batman: The Animated Series) (Only as a character skin)
 * Batman (Earth 31) (Only as character skin)

Villains/Adversaries

 * The Joker
 * Harley Quinn
 * Dr. Hugo Strange
 * Two-Face
 * The Penguin
 * Poison Ivy
 * The Riddler
 * Killer Croc
 * Solomon Grundy
 * Mr. Zsasz
 * Mr. Freeze
 * Talia al Ghul
 * Calendar Man
 * Black Mask
 * Quincy Sharp
 * High Security Henchmen
 * Ratcatcher
 * Abramovici Twins
 * The Reaper

Villians/Adversaries

 * Scarecrow (implied by one ending of the first)
 * Ra's Al Ghul (his body vanished from the morgue and his daughter being in the game)
 * The Falcone Family (due to enhancement on a screenshot with the interview of Strange & Two-Face )
 * Prometheus (implied in Hugo Strange profile in Batman: Arkham City website on a patient)
 * Maxie Zeus (Olympus Structure and Gladiator-like head on eviction paper seen in Catwoman trailer)
 * Mad Hatter (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics & that his hat was shown in the penguin trailer)
 * Jenny Duff (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
 * The Walrus (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
 * Tweedledee (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
 * Tweedledum (Seen in digital issue #2 of comics)
 * Black Canary (Seen in IGN trailer)
 * The Maroni Family (Name seen in Penguin screenshot)
 * The Broker (Seen in story issue #2 of comics)

Allies

 * Dick Grayson/Nightwing (Flying Graysons poster and leaked profile shot)
 * Aaron Cash (Seen in story issue #3 of comics)
 * Batman/Jean-Paul Valley (Only as a character skin)
 * Zach Franklin (Looks like the cop that Penguin kills)

Other

 * Amadeus Arkham (Seen in story issue #3 of comics)

Locations

 * No Man's Land (Seen in Catwoman trailer)
 * The Iceberg Lounge (implied by the trailer)
 * Wonder City Funhouse (implied by the trailer)
 * Gotham Casino (seen in screenshots and in a trailer)
 * Monarch Theatre (seen in screenshot and in a trailer)
 * Crime Alley (seen in screenshots and in a trailer)
 * Ideal Hardware (implied by trailer, seen in screenshots, and there are numerous of them)
 * Gotham City Herald (seen in screenshots)
 * Solomon Wayne Courthouse (implied in GameInformer and seen in trailer)
 * Gotham City Studio 105.7 (seen in screenshots and in a trailer)
 * Ace Chemicals (seen in screenshots and seen in trailer)
 * Wayne Enterprises (seen in a screenshot and seen in trailer)
 * Sionis Industries (seen in screenshots and seen in trailer)
 * Joker's Funhouse (seen in screenshots, seen in a trailer, and Joker's Funland as a part of it)
 * Finnigan's Bar (seen in screenshots, seen in trailer, and there are numerous of them)
 * Glass, Furniture, & Drapes (seen in a screenshot)
 * Gotham Cathedral (seen on screenshots, and in a trailer, being converted into the Medical Center)
 * GBS building (seen in trailer)
 * W&B building (seen in trailer)
 * GCN building (seen in trailer)
 * Hotel Aventine (seen in trailer)
 * Nunez Motel (seen in comic cover: Hugo & Batman)
 * Gotham Cars (seen in concept art screenshot)
 * GCPD Building (Confirmed by OXM)
 * The Bowery (Confirmed by OXM)
 * Wonder Tower (Confirmed by OXM)
 * Amusement Mile (Confirmed by OXM)
 * Steel Mill (Confirmed by OXM)
 * Tyger Storage Facility (Confirmed by OXM and seen in trailer)
 * Gotham Cable News Building (Confirmed by OXM)
 * Gotham City Bank (Seen in Catwoman Trailer)
 * Gotham City Radio (Seen in Catwoman Trailer)
 * Gotham Hardware (Seen in Catwoman Trailer)
 * Flannegan's Pest Control (Seen in Catwoman Trailer)
 * Gotham City Olympus (Seen in Catwoman Trailer)
 * Gotham Docks (Seen at E3)
 * Baudelaire (Seen at E3)
 * Black Mask Hideout (Robin's Challenge map)
 * Freight Train Escape (Robin's Challenge map)
 * Haley's Circus (Implied by Flying Graysons "Cancelled" Posters and Robin's presence in the game)
 * Live Nudes (Seen in trailers)
 * Hat Show (Seen in Penguin trailer)

Voice Actors

 * Kevin Conroy - Batman
 * Mark Hamill - The Joker
 * Grey DeLisle - Catwoman
 * Tom Kane - Quincy Sharp and Commissioner Gordon
 * Tara Strong - Harley Quinn
 * Maurice LaMarche - Mr. Freeze
 * Stana Katic - Talia al Ghul
 * Wally Wingert - The Riddler
 * Tasia Valenza - Poison Ivy
 * Troy Baker - Two-Face
 * Nolan North - The Penguin
 * Corey Burton- Hugo Strange
 * Wade Williams - Black Mask
 * Diedrich Bader - Solomon Grundy
 * Danny Jacobs - Victor Zsasz
 * Jim Piddock - Alfred Pennyworth
 * James Horan - Jack Ryder
 * David Kaye -
 * Jim Lee -
 * Fred Tatasciore - Bane
 * Steven Blum - Killer Croc, additional voices
 * Crispin Freeman -
 * John Kassir -

Videos
Video:Batman: Arkham City - Debut Trailer|Joker Teaser Trailer

Video:Batman: Arkham City Hugo Strange Trailer 720P|Hugo Strange Trailer

Video:Batman: Arkham City - Official Gameplay Trailer - This Ain't No Place for a Hero|Gameplay Trailer

Video:Catwoman HD Gameplay Trailer - Batman: Arkham City|Catwoman Trailer

Video:Catwoman and Batman Gameplay - Batman: Arkham City|Catwoman and Batman Gameplay

Video:Can you defeat a mind such as mine?|The Riddler Trailer

Video:Batman: Arkham City - GameSpot Exclusive Penguin Reveal (PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) |The Penguin Trailer