Batman: Arkham Trilogy Launches October 13 for Switch - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 August 2023 / 4,017 Views

Publisher Warner Bros. Games announced Batman: Arkham Trilogy will launch for the Nintendo Switch on October 13.

The collection includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight, as well as all DLC for the three games.

Experience Gotham City in a whole new way and become its ultimate protector when Batman: Arkham Trilogy comes to #NintendoSwitch on October 13th!

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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 15, 2023

Read details on the game below:

Developed by Rocksteady Studios and released in 2009, Batman: Arkham Asylum is where it all started. The game set the stage for DC’s “Arkhamverse” that fans know and love today, and introduced players to a unique, dark, and atmospheric adventure that takes players to the depths of the infamous Arkham Asylum. Featuring an original story, players move in the shadows as Batman to instill fear amongst enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City’s most notorious villains, including Harley Quinn, Bane, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, and Scarecrow, who have taken over the asylum.

Batman: Arkham City is Rocksteady Studios’ 2011 follow-up that builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum. The game sends players soaring through the expansive Arkham City—the maximum security “home” for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters, and insane criminal masterminds. Featuring an incredible Rogues Gallery of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals including Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, The Penguin, Mr. Freeze, and many others, the game allows players to experience what it feels like to be The Dark Knight and deliver justice to those confined within Arkham City.

Batman: Arkham Knight raises the stakes for The Dark Knight in Rocksteady Studios’ 2015 finale to the multi-award winning trio of Batman: Arkham games. In this epic conclusion to the Arkhamverse story arc, the fate of Gotham City hangs in the balance as Scarecrow is joined by the Arkham Knight, making his villainous debut in DC’s Batman Universe, as well as a roster of notorious DC Super-Villains including Harley Quinn, The Penguin, Two-Face, Firefly, and the Riddler. Joining The World’s Greatest Detective are his closest allies, Commissioner Gordon, Oracle, Alfred, Lucius Fox, Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing. The game culminates in the ultimate showdown in Gotham City and introduces players to the complete Batman experience with the Batmobile that is fully drivable throughout the open game world and capable of transformation from high-speed Pursuit Mode to military grade Battle Mode.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

8 Comments

Spike0503 (on 15 August 2023)

Arkham Origins remains forgotten. Such a shame. I understand people didn't like it as much as City and it had some issues but it's not so bad that it deserves to be forgotten. I thought the boss fights were really good (much better than Arkham Knight in all honesty). It also had a really awesome challenge map called "100 to 1" that was an absolute blast to play through. It was the best martial arts experience I had in any game until Sifu came out!

umegames Spike0503 (on 15 August 2023)

100% agree, I really thought it was a good game, and it's bothersome to me that they pretend it doesn't exist.

G2ThaUNiT umegames (on 15 August 2023)

I'm guessing it's easier to market the Rocksteady made games than saying "here's 3 games made by Rocksteady and 1 that's not"

It definitely should be there though. It's still part of the Arkham universe and canonically, the first game in the series.

JWeinCom G2ThaUNiT (on 15 August 2023)

I don't really think so.

"The entire Arkham Saga" not that hard.

Probably they just figured the amount of people who would buy the game wouldn't change much whether or not they ported Origins, so they didn't make the effort.

KratosLives (on 18 August 2023)

I'll pick this up when it's priced good

Radek (on 15 August 2023)

Gothic, RDR, Batman Arkham Trilogy, Hogwarts Legacy. Quiete a lot of AAA ports coming in second half of the year

VAMatt Radek (on 16 August 2023)

Yeah. This tells me that third party publishers know that the switch successor will be backward compatible. The Switch install base is now huge, so they can rack up decent sales there, and their games will remain relevant for several years, possibly allowing them to rack up some sales on the next Nintendo system.