Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is out Friday (or Tuesday, for Deluxe Edition owners), and reviews have dropped ahead of its launch. For the most part, reviewers have come to a consensus: the latest Lego Batman is a worthy successor to the beloved Batman: Arkham games.
And now that critics have rolled credits, they’ve confirmed that the Arkham series did more than just provide inspiration for Legacy of the Dark Knight — Rocksteady collaborated on the new game.
As spotted by VGC, about two dozen developers from Rocksteady are listed in the credits of Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, including a producer and several programmers. Rocksteady made Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight as well as the creatively titled VR spinoff Arkham VR. Rocksteady’s latest shipped game was 2024’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which failed to garner the same kind of positive reception as the main Arkham games.
Warner Bros. Games Montreal is also in the credits of Legacy of the Dark Knight. The studio developed Batman: Arkham Origins and Gotham Knights and has provided additional support on several other DC Comics games, like Suicide Squad.
Cross-studio pollination isn’t too surprising as Rocksteady, Warner Bros. Games Montreal, and Lego Batman main developer TT Games are all owned by Warner Bros. Games. As head of the development team at TT Games Jonathan Smith told gamexplore, this is par for the course.
“The studios do collaborate and support each other on their projects […] We’re really pleased to be part of WB Games, and we’ve got friends and colleagues at other studios,” he said.
In an interview with gamexplore, Smith talked about setting out to make “the definitive Batman game.” Doing that meant rebuilding combat systems, and the result is basically an Arkham game made out of Lego bricks.
Additional reporting by Matt Patches.
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