LEGO Batman Confirmed
Holy plastic figurines, Batman!
by Micah Seff

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US, March 27, 2007 - Today, Warner Bros. affirmed all the rumors by announcing the development of LEGO Batman: The Videogame for "next-generation and current generation platforms and the PC in 2008." It's still up in the air what this means, but we're banking on the game coming to pretty much every system possible like its Star Wars cousins.

"We're sure our fans will be excited to know that we have the same fantastic team at Traveller's Tales responsible for LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II working on LEGO Batman," said Tom Stone of Traveller's Tales.

Anyone who played either of the LEGO Star Wars games should perk up at the mention of Traveller's Tales. Most likely, this means that the game will feature some awesome co-op action for Batman and Robin, as well as a huge cast of characters from the Batman universe. Hopefully, LEGO Batman has the same humorous sensibilities of those previous games; the campiness of the Batman series screams for a LEGO-ization.

The game takes place after a massive exodus out of Arkham Asylum by the most nefarious villains from Batman's Rogues Gallery. Batman and cohorts will be charged with tracking down criminals, and bringing them to justice. Players can utilize an extensive arsenal of classic Batman gadgets, as well as build and pilot a wide array of vehicles ripped straight from the annals of Batman history.

There's no official word on the game's release date.

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A problem that popped into my head while thinking about this is limited story mode characters. unless there are some villain story levels, it'd probably get boring/annoying playing as just Batman + Robin.

Well there is Batgirl, Catwoman, Nightwing, and a bunch of others who are apart of the Batman crime fighting family...unless they add in other super heroes(like Super-man) I don't think the cast is going to be as big as Star Wars but there will be plenty...Batman has a lot of sidekicks.

And in LEGO Star Wars all the characters played basically the same anyways...you either had your jedi or your guy with a gun.

I remember that around the time Lego Star Wars 2 was released the development team was already talking about making a LEGO Batman game...so it can't be too far off.

There aren't any real LEGO Batman products out is there? I know LEGO has a Star Wars line but I didn't think they did Batman.

I hope they don't put in any really dumb stealth missions....