How Splash Damage is bringing multiplayer to Batman: Arkham Origins

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Superman has enemies. Batman often has victims. Now the developers behind Batman: Arkham Origins want you to be one of those victims. Some of the time, anyway.
And it's also some of the developers. While the main campaign's being handled by Warner Bros. Games Montreal, whose bat experience to date comes from porting Arkham City to the Wii U, the new multiplayer component's the work of UK-based Splash Damage. That's the team who were last seen on PC and consoles delivering Brink, a complex multiplayer shooter that could degenerate, at times, into a bit of a well-intentioned muddle.
Arkham's multiplayer is already looking complex and well-intentioned, at least. The idea is initially fairly simple: Origins Online will expand on the previous games' Invisible Predator sequences - those bits that saw Batman knocking around in the rafters, stalking prey, and then swooping down to pick them off one by one. It's Batman and Robin against rooms of well-armed player-controlled goons, in essence.
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