A “mission replace” tweet from the official Gotham Knights Twitter account is teasing a take a look at new gameplay tomorrow that includes Nightwing and Red Hood within the highlight. Each former Robins, Nightwing has historically mixed his acrobatic abilities along with his signature Escrima sticks, whereas Red Hood has adopted a extra trigger-happy strategy to combating crime. [Update: The new Gotham Knights gameplay trailer is here, as is confirmation that it’s only coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC–there won’t be a PS4 or Xbox One release.]

This is not the primary time that both character has appeared in a contemporary Batman sport. After briefly showing in Arkham Metropolis, Nightwing was given an even bigger starring function in Arkham Knight’s marketing campaign, and even receiving his personal downloadable mission as a part of the sport’s season cross. Tasked with stopping the Penguin from breaking out of the Gotham Metropolis Police Division, Nightwing’s transient journey was a mixture of stealth and circus-inspired fight starring the previous boy marvel.

Red Hood’s downloadable episode was equally transient and featured the vigilante mopping up Black Masks’s gang after the occasions of Arkham Knight. Not like Nightwing’s episode although, the ex-Robin may make use of using his sidearms to immediately take down enemies as soon as sufficient momentum had been constructed up in motion sequences or his cooldown had reset in a stage that required extra predatorial gameplay.

Gotham Knights will allow you to play as both character–as nicely as Batgirl and Robin–when it releases on October 25. Curiously, the sport’s PlayStation retailer web page now mentions on-line help for as much as “4 community gamers” however developer Warner Bros. Montreal has but to verify this.

Set in a Gotham Metropolis the place Batman has died and Gotham Metropolis has fallen prey to supervillains and the Courtroom of Owls. It’s going to be as much as gamers to cease the assorted prison factions, and restore order to the town as they undertake the mantle of the bat. Past that sport primarily based on DC Comics characters, you too can anticipate Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in 2023.

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