Camouflaj and Oculus Studios have announced a new Batman: Arkham Shadow VR game coming late this year. The studio hasn’t revealed much about the upcoming game, though it’s coming exclusively to Meta Quest 3.
Arkham Shadow shares continuity with Rocksteady Studios’ Batman: Arkham games and, by extension, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The teaser trailer opens with a shot of Gotham City in the rain. The camera then descends between the buildings, revealing a strange symbol painted on a wall. A rat emerges from around the corner of a wall, and the trailer cuts to Batman’s perspective as he chases it through a back alley. He finally sets down on street level, only for a horde of red-eyed rats to swarm out from the shadows.
The swarm of rats points to The Ratcatcher as a likely antagonist in this VR installment of the Batman: Arkham series. In comics, Ratcatcher is an actual ratcatcher of the Gotham City Sanitation Department with the ability to control rats. Once a relatively obscure villain, his daughter, Ratcatcher 2, is a main character in the 2021 Suicide Squad movie. However, even if Ratcatcher is the villain of Arkham Shadow, the game version will not necessarily resemble earlier depictions.
Camouflaj released its first game, République, episodically in 2015 and 2016. However, it’s arguably better known as the developer of Iron Man VR. The 2020 rail shooter shares a continuity with Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man games. The PS VR version averages a Metacritic score of 73, with the Oculus Quest Port averaging 75.
