Game news Gotham Knights: Mr. Freeze, Batman’s sworn enemy is revealed in pictures
In Gotham Knights, players must band together to face many major villains, starting with Mr. Freeze, who revealed himself to the world today.
A strong opponent
After presenting 28 of the 44 costumes available in the final version of the game, Gotham Knights, the sequel to Batman Arkham Knight, reappears in the columns of IGN to tell us more about one of his main antagonists. We named obviously Mr Frosta character who will have an important place in this new adventure.
In the streets of Gotham City, driving Batgirl or even Red Hood, Nightwing and Robin, it will be possible to meet a brand new gang, the Regulators. The Regulators are a faction engaged in organ trafficking, stealing cutting-edge technological devices to achieve their ends. While Mr. Freeze doesn’t necessarily share the same ideologies as this all-or-almost all-mercenary group, he still decides to join them to take a few breaks.
Furthermore, this is one of the questions asked by Warner Bros. Games Montreal, the studio behind the game: how do you get players to understand that Mr. Freeze is somehow connected to regulators when the two parties don’t always work together? The answer is simple Much like the Regulators, Mr. Freeze uses technological weapons.
We linked the regulators to Mr. Freeze. It seemed logical since they both use technology. Jay Evans, lead character designer
Mr. Freeze, a creation in virtual reality
In addition to some details about his equipment – we learn that this technology remains anchored in reality so as not to distort the Batman universe -, in his interview, IGN also reveals that this supervillain was (partially) created in virtual reality, an amazing fact. The goal here was to be close to the character, to perceive what the players can feel when they are next to the villain.
Finally, Jianli Wu, the character art director, added that they kept the essence of the villain so that fans can recognize him at a glance.
The dome, the glasses, his face… Mr. Freeze’s story is emblematic. We don’t want to deviate from that because everyone knows when they see it that it’s Mr. Freeze. But we raised the technological level a bit. We want to add our own flavor to our design. We want to stay true to IP but bring something new at the same time. That’s kind of a philosophy that we have for a lot of the characters in the game. Jianli Wu, Character Art Director
As a reminder, Gotham Knights is expected on October 25th on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
