Batman Beyond: Death of the Dark Knight

Batman Beyond: Death of the Dark Knight is an upcoming video game devoloped by Rocksteady. It takes place in the Batman Beyond Universe, where Terry McGinnis is the Future Batman. It is set to be released in 2013 and is said to have many new and old characteristics from the the Batman: Arkham Series.

Plot
The plot starts with Terry McGinnis as Batman tracking down one of Batman's old villans bane, being kept alive from the Lazarus Pit when he made a deal with Ra's Al Ghul. When he finds Bane, he knows he must be careful, and so he leads him into a condemned building and plans to plant explosives in it. His plan fails and he caught by Bane, who launches him to the roof. From there you go on to fight Bane, but it ends badly. He is thrown to the ground and rammed through several cars and put into a coma. While he is in a coma, Bruce Wayne goes to Ra's Al Ghul to ask if he could use the Lazarus Pit. He is turned down. Knowing that it is needed, he jumps into the Lazarus Pit anyway. He emerges insane and Ra's is forced to control him. You awake as Bruce Wayne, who is about to be stabbed by Ra's Al Ghul. He quickly counters him and then you fight Ra's Al Ghul. You try to escape, but seconds after you go out to the hallway you are confronted by many guards all with their guns at your head, and they all keep a safe distance. One of them shoots a poison dart right into his neck. He is then knocked out. Bruce Wayne is then kept, chained to wall, 10,000 ft under ground, in a secret room, with 15 automated motion sensed gun's locked on to him. The only way out being a titanium door, with titanium locks, which locks from the outside and have no handle or lock on the inside. He is then stuck there for years, fed by Ra's guards, with oxygen supplied from a titanium grated pipe line. The walls are made of titanium and the elevator has a 20 character long code to be accessed. Ra's wanted Batman to suffer, so he was dipped into the Lazarus Pit every few weeks. All these things made it impossible, even by Batman, to be escaped.

Terry McGinnis awakes from his coma FIVE YEARS LATER in the hospital. He feels for his mask, which is still there. Though the rest of the costume is hung on the wall next to him. He is not aware that it has been five years, thinking he was just knocked out for a few days. He turns the TV on and switches through the channels, but one channel catches his ear. "The billionaire philanthropist, Bruce Wayne has been missing for five years, and his search continues. He has last been seen near Ra's Al Ghuls castle." Terry then thinks to himself, "Wait were have I been! I know the guy better than anyone! Wait, no! I haven't been here for just a few hours or days, or even months! I've been here for five years!" He get's out of his bed and runs to the window. He looks outside to see Gotham City's skies red with flame, and hundreds of buildings in ruin. "And without a Batman, Gotham's drove itself into to complete chaos. I have to get out of here! I have to go to the Batcave!" He get's his suit and runs out of the hospital, being chased by guards and nurses. He then calls for the batmobile and goes to the Batcave

In the batcave does research on what has happened in the last five years. 'Five Years- Bane attack's Batman, Bruce Wayne goes missing. Batman is hospitalized and is in a coma. Four Years- the Gangs notice Batman is gone and start to go full force and attack Gotham. Three Years- Gang's take over Gotham's industries, taking weapons, ammo, fuel, transportation, practically everything else. Two Years- Gangs take over Gotham's trade taking everything that the Gotham dock imports, leaving the remaining people and stores, yearning for food. One Year- Gangs have taking over Gotham's police department, Bane found to be leader, though other accomplices are hinted by Bane. Gotham quickly falls into ruin. Most Recent- Bane travels to Ra's Al Ghul's castle for unknown reasons.' Terry then quickly quickly heads to the Batwing and flies himself to Ra's Al Ghul's castle, investigating on why Bane's there.

When he arrives he is quickly met by Ra's guards. Who take down the Batwing. He escapes into Ra's castle, and then loses the guards. From there on he investagates why Bane is there. He sneaks his way past Ra's guards to find out that Bane is planning to break a number of inmates out of the Asylum and dip them in the Lazarus Pit to restore their youth. Batman is heard and he quickly escapes. He then calls another one of his Batwings to Ra's castle and escapes to the city. He then analyzes his problems. He has to find Bruce, restore Gotham to it's proper state, and stop Bane from breaking into the Asylum and taking the inmates to the Lazarus Pit.

He heads to the GCPD and forces them to increase the guards at the Asylum ten fold, to call the military, and S.W.A.T, and place everyone on the perimeter. He says that Bane plans to break them out, leaving out the part about the Lazarus Pit. Of course they listened and the military and S.W.A.T were on their way, Batman demanded for them to come quicker, but he said it wasn't possible. Batman, knowing that they wouldn't have enough forces in time went in his the suit Batman used to fight Bane, the BatMech suit. He then watches the Asylum waiting for Bane.When Bane comes, he ignores Batman. Batman tries to attack Bane. Before he is able to disconnect the venom flow into Bane's body, Bane throws Batman to the top of a building where he lay, knocked out for two days.

He wakes up and gets out of the suit. Knowing that he should be quick, and try to solve the gang war problem before the the villians recooperate from the Lazarus Pit, which would be in a few days. He starts by heading to the gangs' leaders and interrogating them for information. He found out that they all had a large meeting in a building just off the Gotham Docks to discuss their plans. The building was heavily guarded. Batman quickly took all of them out but the Gang Bosses and then confronted them. He knew that he couldn't immediately stop the gangs, but he knew the perfect way to stat. After a quick fight with the gang bosses ending in them giving up, he hung them by their feet on the ceiling. He then told them to tell everyone they knew that Batman was back. He than cut the rope holding them to the ceiling and left, leaving them all knocked out.

The he then goes back to the city and searches for crimes. After he tells a few gang memebers to tell everyone that he is there he is approached with another problem. Some of the villans were already coming back. Though the biggest was Black Mask. He went around searching for known old Black Mask hideouts. The first few bases were filled with Black Mask gang members. He used this to his advantage and interrogated them for where Black Mask was, eventually leading to a building near the Old Gotham Railways.

Once he found Black Mask he was ambushed by his gang. Once he fought past them, he fights Black Mask and notices something. Black Mask fought weirdly, he wasn't like his profile on the Batcomputer said, something was wrong. He managed to punch his in the face, knocking his Mask to the side. "Wait!" he thought, "This isn't the original! This is an imposter, a different Black Mask!" He tried to take his mask off, but it was on to tight. He managed to knock him out and decided to go to the bat cave to safely take his mask off.

When he gets him to the Batcave, he managed to take his mask off, but then something weird happened, the person behind the mask had no match to anyone in the Batcomputer's data, which was almost everyone on Earth. Then he noticed something. He carefully pressed his finger it the mans skin and it sinked in. "Clayface! Wait, If this is Clayface where is the real Black Mask?" He checked the Batcomputer's Data on Jeremiah Arkham, who had died in the five year gap of which he was in his coma.

Suddenly, Clayface woke up. Before Batman was able to chase him, he ran up the steps and made into Wayne Manor. This is a conversastion between Clayface and Batman:

"Wait, this is Wayne Manor, Batman is Bruce Wayne, but, but, he's missing, he's old but, but, he couldn't be, how could he be, but, no, no,no, that doesn't make sense."

"If I was Bruce Wayne, how would be this agile?"

"You know, Bruce Wayne was a billionaire, he could pretty much do anything he wanted with that money, and how do I know that he didn't go into the Lazarus Pit?!"

"Where is Bruce?" Terry thinks. "I'm sure Clayface knows, I'll just need to contain him somehow."

After a fight with Clayface, he grabs Mr. Freezes gun, and points at Clayface at full power, Clayface immdiately stops. Batman asks him where Bruce Wayne was, and Clayface said that he was him. He eventually gets Clayface to believe that he isn't Bruce Wayne. Clayface said all he knew was that Ra's had him and took for awhile, he put him into the Lazarus Pit and that's all Ra's told him.

Batman knew that the next place he would have to go to was Ra's Castle and find Batman from there, but there was one problem, if he went there he would be met by Batman's worst villians. He would leave the city open again also, or the villians were already on there where and Gotham would be destroyed by the time he got back. He had no choice but to wait in Gotham until they arrive, take them out then, and before they come, take the gang problem out of the picture.

The next day, crime was down, his plan of telling the Gang bosses worked, and the Gangs were already retreating, but there were a few ones still there, reaking havoc. He decided, to go back to the Gang bosses, and discover which gang's were still in action. There were only two large gangs left. He managed to covince one of them to call their gangs off, but the other one was persistent.

After a street gang attacked him soon after, he discovered that the last gang was that of the Bane's. He knew he would have to go to Ra's castle.

At Ra's castle, he was expected and was ambushed by Scarecrow, Penguin, Bane, Poison Ivy, and Scarface. Who managed to shoot him in the heart and then, Penguin took a picture of him, and labled it "Batman is Dead" and sent it to every news station and newspaper. They then threw him in a river, to make sure that he would be dead. Batman slowly dying, called the Batboat and retreated to the Batcave, where he was stuck to recooperate for a few weeks.

The newspapers said that Batman was dead, and effectively, he was. The gun shot, would make it almost impossible for him to fight crime. Though, he knew he would have to go and fight, he had no choice. He got out of the Batcave, and noticed that crime returned. Though he knew one thing now that would save alot of time. Bane was in charge of most of the gangs. Though now everyone thought he was actually dead, not in a coma. Everyone would have lost all hope. They would think he was just an imposter, and he would look like one too with his arm.

He would have to try his best either way. He would go back to Ra's castle, but this time be careful, and now he would have an upper hand. This time they wouldn't know that he was alive. They wouldn't be prepared for it. He checked the new just to make sure he knew everything about what happened so that nothing surprised him. Luckily he did, because the new had said this- Ecological Terrorist, Ra's Al Ghul, has moved to another larger castle located in Southern Ireland.

It was good thing he had read it, because if he didn't he would have gone to a completely wrong place. He headed for Southern Ireland, where he searched over the buildings, and eventually found Ra's Castle, which was much larger.

Once he made it inside, the first room he entered was where a large screen was. Ra's appeared on the screen and told him that the building was filled with Batman's villians. He fought through, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Scarface, Two-Face, Bane, and finally the revived Joker

After that Ra's reveals that he knew that he would be alive, as Batman has taken much more than just a shot to the shoulder. He then sends knocks him out and takes him to the same room as Bruce Wayne, but he wakes up before they are able to lock him up. Then, as a last resort, they Bruce Wayne right after he was dipped in the Lazarus. Before they lock the door Terry knocks them out, but then he has another problem, he had a crazy, young, fit, Bruce Wayne attacking him. After finally beating Bruce, he throws all the villians under ground, remove Banes venom flow threw his blood and then lock the door, then they go back to Gotham. When they came back they tell everyone that Bane is now gone and locked up in Maximum security underground, and that Gotham is safe. The next day, Gangs retreated and Gotham was restored to its former state.

Gameplay
The gameplay is mostly exactly alike from that of Arkham City, with some new features. The combat was mostly the same having the free flow return. The navigation using the Grapnel Hook and Gliding returned as well.