When Tim Drake/Robin, who is working on the cure and in a relationship with Oracle, questions Oracle's silence, Batman hides her kidnapping to keep him focused.īatman follows the Arkham Knight's trail across Gotham to a pair of airships owned by pharmaceutical magnate Simon Stagg. Batman informs Gordon about Oracle's kidnapping, and Gordon angrily storms off when Batman reveals Barbara's involvement with him. The fear toxin now causes Joker to appear as a lingering mental projection, taunting Batman and manipulating his perception of the world. Batman has quarantined the other four infected in his base at Panessa Film Studios, and has hidden his condition from his team. The only hope for a cure lies in Henry Adams, who appears to be immune to the mutation. Through a flashback, it is revealed that five of the people infected with Joker's blood, including Batman, were not treated in time, and have begun mutating into Joker. While he is deploying it, he is exposed to Scarecrow's toxin and has a hallucination of Joker.
Knowing the bomb can't be stopped, Batman quickly produces a neutralizing agent to contain the blast to ACE Chemicals. Batman manages to reach Scarecrow, who tells him that he has kidnapped Oracle before escaping.
Venturing further inside to rescue the remaining factory workers, he learns of Scarecrow's plans to unleash a bomb that will cover the entire eastern seaboard in Fear Toxin.
Batman enters the facility alone to find that Scarecrow and the assailant (whom Oracle can only identify as "the Arkham Knight") have built an army for a full-out assault on Gotham. Before Batman and Gordon can enter the plant, they are stopped by a man in a military helicopter, who destroys part of the bridge. After bringing Ivy to GCPD, Batman meets with Oracle, reverse engineering the fear toxin to determine its site of production: the ACE Chemicals Plant. Poison Ivy was the only one to decline, leading Scarecrow to capture her. After Batman defeats all of the men, Poison Ivy reveals that Scarecrow recruited all of Batman's enemies in order to take out Batman one and for all. He arrives at the safe-house to find Poison Ivy being detained by men in military attire. Taking the man's vial of fear toxin and sending it to his ally Oracle for analysis, Batman learns that Scarecrow has a safe-house in Chinatown. The civilian population of Gotham is evacuated within 24 hours, leaving behind only criminals, an overwhelmed police force, Batman, and his allies.įollowing a tip from the GCPD, Batman finds and apprehends a man driving a military vehicle. With his example made, Scarecrow threatens to unleash the toxin again on Halloween, this time on a much larger scale. However, the night before Halloween, the super-villain Scarecrow releases a sample of his latest fear toxin into a diner, causing the occupants to tear themselves apart in fear-induced hallucinations. With the Joker's death, Gotham City's crime rate has fallen drastically. The story begins nine months after the events of Batman: Arkham City. The Batmobile is also able to enter a tank-like form. The game marks the introduction of the Batmobile as a drivable vehicle. Enemies with gattling guns take longer to finish off, and cannot be finished off with stealth takedowns. Conversely, enemies now have access to sentry guns, remote drones, and will disable vents if they catch Batman inside. The new Voice Synthesizer gadget can be used to lead enemies into traps, the Disruptor can be used to disable or sabotage guns, and the Remote Hacking Device can activate parts of the environment to take down enemies. In Predator Mode, Batman can now use the "Fear Takedown", allowing him to take out three enemies at a time in quick succession: this takedown can be reused once a Silent Takedown is performed. New enemy types have been introduced: medics can revive enemies or imbue with electrical charges, brutes must be stunned to make them vulnerable to attack, and sword-wielding enemies can use acrobatics and faster attacks. In certain sections of the game, Batman can fightside along allies (either Nightwing, Robin, or Catwoman) and seamlessly switch control to said ally during combat. Many gameplay elements from previous titles return, including the FreeFlow combat system, gliding mechanics, and wide array of gadgets.Ĭombat has been expanded, allowing for Batman to perform environmental takedowns and temporarily use melee weapons against enemies. Batman: Arkham Knight is an open-world action-adventure game, using a third-person adjustable camera.