Now this Batman game is not being done by developer Rocksteady. Instead it is being done internally by Warner Brothers Montreal. This honestly had me worried as I was not sure that the new team could maintain the quality we have come to expect from an Arkham game. Well based on the demo we saw there is nothing to fear. The locomotion through the city and combat appear to be intact. They showed off a new detective vision to recreate crime scenes to figure out what happened. The example used was a helicopter that crashed infront of the Bat. Two new thug type enemies made their debut in the demo as well. The first being a large armored bruiser that you have to stun to take down and the second a martial artist that can counter your counters forcing you to counter the counter counter. The demo shortly moved to a predator room where we got to see a new toy, the remote claw. With it you can pick two targets and when it fires it will hit target one, then target two, and then pull them together. This was used to crash two thugs together, a thug and a gas barrel, and finally between two gargoyles to create a tight rope. It looks like a very fun tool. Once the room was empty Batman gets in an elevator (really?) and heads to the floor Blackskull should be on. Here Batman discovers he is not as clever as he thinks when Bane welcomes an empty elevator, and then reaches through the ceiling and rips Batman down. Bane throws Bats into a room with the pinnacle of Batman villians, Joker. The demo ends with Joker blowing up a construction site and threatening the rest of Gotham. Definitely looking forward to this in October.

The demo we watched felt like what you may see in an authentic episode odlf South Park. You can feel the influence that Matt and Trey Parker have on the games creation. Expect it out "this holiday season, or some holiday season. You know how games are".

Max is back, and this time you are in control of his rage. In the game Max has lost his car, and in this wasteland that means death. To survive he employs Chum Bucket to build a new, the Magnum Opis. This is appears to be a major game point. You have to scavenge the waste land to get parts in order to upgrade the car to your play style. Each piece will affect the weight and handling of the car. A heavy grill guard will cause your cause your car to ride lower if you don't upgrade the suspension.

In the demo we watched Max was out to get the Talon. A heavy duty spear that he needed to us in order to take down the Jaw, a massive gate blocking his way to Gas Junction. They showed off the vehicle combat with Max and Chum Bucket using a spear gun to spin out a car, running other cars off the road and using a shotgun to blast bandits that jumped on the car. One they retrieved the Talon they drove to where they needed to use it, but had to stop and take out some sentries on foot. This was done with a lighting stick (tossed into a guys chest and electrocuted him) and melee combat. Then he did a silent kill on another guy before returning to the car in order to pull out a sniper rifle and take out a few fuel tanks from range taking out a significant portion of their forces.

We were not given a release date on the game on the game, but given WB's record for entertaining games lately I think this is one we can look forward to.

Assassin's Creed IV features what may be considered the oddest choice for an assassin yet, Edward Kenway, a pirate and friend to Blackbeard. This brings up all sorts of questions about true history of pirates in the AC world but Unwilling get to that another time. In the floor demo for E3 they showed two main aspects of the game, combat and stealth. The combat portion of the game started with Kenway tailing a man to to a group that wants this pirate village knocked out. He kills the enemy scouts that might find him until reaching the camp. Here, from an overhead vantage, he jumps down and kills two people with a hidden blade and shoots the other four. This all looked like classic AC. Well even with all the spies dead it was not enough and a British (assumption) fleet attacks the town setting it a blaze. Kenway then free runs through the burning city to get to his ship and counter attack. Despite having the jump on him Kenway manages to immobilize a ship, board it, and start offing the soldiers. This part of the demo ended with Kenway and Blackbeard prepared to take on the overwhelming odds surrounding them.

The second demo had more to do with the world exploration aspects of the game. After accepting a contract on a set of captain brothers that, well I don't know what they did but we accepted the contract. The first bother was easy enough to take out as he was standing next to a bar (an alcohol bar,not a metal one). Kenway walked up to the bar and nonchalantly grabbed the targets head and smashed it into the bar. This scared the dudes brother who booked it to his ship as a result. Kenway jumped on to his boat and followed the brother, disabled and boarded the ship, and finally killed the captain (your target) and most the crew. The ship was then given a pirate captain and sent to join Kenways fleet. The demo continued with a treasure hunt that involved using stealth to go around a number of Spanish soldiers and freeing other pirates.

All in all the game looked very much like a traditional Assassin's Creed title. Sire not all the architecture will be as epic as AC II, but with the use of the Caribbean we could be seeing Aztec and Myanmar ruins to climb. Look for it to come out for all systems late October.