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The studio just keeps releasing more clues for a possible new project — what could it all mean?
WB Games Montréal has been slowly teasing a new project, most likely a new Batman game, and by slowly we mean slowly — over the course of a few months. According to new images posted by the company Thursday, there's still a lot more clues to be revealed.
The following logo, which depicts an emblem with swords and what look like talons surrounded by bird wings, was tweeted from the studio's official account with nothing but the text '/redacted.'
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/redacted pic.twitter.com/SNaQ4I2fn9
— WB Games Montréal (@WBGamesMTL) January 9, 2020However, if you go to the official website and use the redacted string, you'll see a much larger image. At the time of this writing, there are only two emblems inserted into a much larger dial. As you can see, there are at least eight more slots to go.
© Provided by Windows CentralThis is just the latest of many clues the studio has released over the past few months. The first official clue we received was in September, when the WB Games Montréal Twitter account posted after a long hiatus with a cryptic, short video and the words 'Capture the Knight/Cape sur la nuit.'
Capture the Knight / Cape sur la nuit pic.twitter.com/yMFXMd4djU
— WB Games Montréal (@WBGamesMTL) September 23, 2019The general consensus was that the company was teasing the next Batman game, but specifically, an adaptation of Batman: The Court of Owls, which was a comics storyline created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo from 2011. It follows Bruce Wayne as he contends with the titular court, which we learn is a secret cabal made up of some of Gotham's wealthiest families. They also employ assassins called Talons and are often seen wearing owl masks.
The first cryptic clue runs through a series of four logos that can pertain to a lot of aspects of the Batman mythos (the demon head, for example, brings up images of Ra's al Ghul) but greatly resemble the logo for the Court of Owls (more on this later). The big kicker though was when Snyder, in a now deleted tweet, quote-tweeted the WB Montréal post and said 'Wait for it... #BewaretheCourtofOwls.'
This new Batman game theory was only strengthened with the tweet before this on Sept. 22, which showed the studio celebrating the Caped Crusader's 80th anniversary. Considering it created the last Batman game, Arkham Origins, them tweeting about the character isn't strange. However, it was done after a nearly four-year hiatus.
@WBGamesMTL is proud to celebrate Batman’s 80th anniversary with rest of the world during #BatmanDay#Batman80pic.twitter.com/4VGz9kBWxj
— WB Games Montréal (@WBGamesMTL) September 22, 2019There have been other signs that have been popping up for a couple years now. In Nov. 2018, an associate producer at the studio tweeted the picture below, which shows off a shirt with the Court of Owls logo.
[Redacted], best. DevTeam. EVAR. pic.twitter.com/fUV8WCkDnI
— Double V (@valvez) November 16, 2018It doesn't help that this photo from the studio's holiday party also exists.
The WB Games Montreal holiday party is taking a strange turn. #WBGMTLpic.twitter.com/aToM970he3
— Patrick Redding 🦑🦖🦍 (@Holesinteeth) December 16, 2017Granted both of these could just show that there are huge Batman fans working at the studio. Regardless, the evidence is overwhelming that WB Games Montréal is working on a new project and that it will likely be a new Batman game. Whether it'll be The Court of Owls or something else is still up in the air.
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Zombies, zombies, zombies. I still don't understand why y'all like them so much, but I'm prepared to do my bit as your friendly local participant observer embedded in modern gaming culture. Thus, this weekend I found myself loading up a preview copy of Dying Light: The Following to see what open-world zombie dismemberment is all about. After a few missteps getting my requisite heroic white guy out of the intro area ('Oh, wait! I have a grappling hook!') I started having more fun than I thought I would, albeit with some caveats.
My preview copy allowed me two hours of story-mode playtime before sending me into the open world to explore, but what I saw of The Following's tale was pretty interesting. Our hero has managed to escape the plague-ridden city of Harran, and discovers a surprise in the surrounding countryside. Although zombies stalk the fields, the remaining locals seem to be immune to infection. They're none too friendly to strangers, though, and there's something weird going down, what with all the ritual shrines dotting the hills. Kyle will have to earn their trust in order to discover the truth behind their weird cult, and the premise at least seems pretty interesting.
When you're not following the main story quests, you get to ramble around the open countryside, doing side quests in order to salvage equipment and improve your standing with the locals. It's quite expansive, certainly enough for this to be considered a full expansion, but an awful lot of this rural real estate is taken up by crowds of zombies hanging out in fields, like moaning, menacing stalks of corn. You can sneak around them, run through them, mow them down like so much chaff (sickle weapons are plentiful!), or wait until nighttime and earn double skill points for taking on their more-powerful nocturnal versions. Personally, I found it more interesting to take on human foes, who tend to be holed up in more interesting places and have far better AI. Given the story, it feels like The Following is a bit more interested in humanity than zombinity, anyway.
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What the zombies-in-fields level design is good for is the dune buggy, which is definitely the highlight of The Following's gameplay changes. It's not the easiest vehicle to control, particularly when too much motion blur kicks in, but it's super-fun to drive around splatting zombies with your new ride. Driving is also a must to simply go from place to place quickly, unless you really want to fight or sneak around the same fields of corn-zombies over and over again.
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The one thing that drains the fun dry from your nitro-powered death machine is the need to constantly scrounge for gas. I know, I know, this is an open-world survival game, but the joy of flying over hill and dale is severely hampered by how quickly your ride guzzles fuel and how often you have to hop out of it and hold down a button while searching the tank of every abandoned vehicle you find. It's not really challenging, it's just tedious, and seeing how much of The Following's gameplay is centered around driving your buggy, it seems weird to limit its use in such a way. I was less bothered by the survival gameplay elements that have carried over from the base game. Your weapons get worn down and eventually break permanently, but there are so many weapons to scavenge and so many ways to improve them via crafting that you'll be drowning in potential implements of destruction simply by playing the game.