Screen Rant had the opportunity to become a part of Batman’s world with Infinite Rabbit Holes and Animal Repair Shop’s new augmented reality game, The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City. This is an experience like no other, combining a mystery box, a board game, escape room-style puzzle solving, and an original narrative filled with iconic Batman characters into a fully immersive experience showcasing what augmented reality is truly capable of. The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City brings players into the world of Gotham through the eyes of the Joker and Harley Quinn to solve a growing mystery as chaos spreads through the city.
The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City combines digital and physical media like never before with AR technology and over 100 game pieces that bring Gotham to life for players at home. The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City also has more than 40 minutes of original live-action and animation content completely created in-house. Screen Rant spoke with the creators of the game and Infinite Rabbit Holes CEO Susan Bonds explains how the exciting new Batman game weaves together narrative, physical media, and AR technology.
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Harley Quinn is the perfect lead, offering a deeper understanding of the rogues that have cycled through the revolving door of Arkham due to her own experiences. And while The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City features tent pole characters like Harley Quinn, the Joker, and Batman with his lesser-known rogues take center stage in a way that masterfully weaves them into the story while revealing their backstories and showing how they became the villains fans know and love.
The games themselves are an experience like no other, showing the true magic that can come from the marriage of technology and story. From hunting down escaped zoo animals across Arkham to investigating a bank robbery The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City uses augmented reality to bring this world, the story, and the puzzles to life beyond the board. The physical media in the nine-pound box double as collectibles that truly drop the player into Gotham, with Arkham files notated by Harleen Quinzel, a newspaper straight from Gotham with surprises laid out by the Joker throughout, and a present from the Clown Prince of Crime himself.
2023-05-31 12:30:05
Source from screenrant.com