Batman: Arkham City Director Sefton Hill recently stated “The footprint of Arkham City is about five times bigger than Arkham Island.”
So what exactly does that mean? “In Batman: Arkham Asylum, we really focused our effort on creating an intense, pressure-cooker atmosphere by locking Batman in the madhouse and allowing The Joker to turn up the heat. In Arkham City, we want to take that attitude to the next level, so we created an experience in which gamers will have a huge amount of navigational freedom, but they will also feel the extreme pressure of the challenges that they face.”
Batman: Arkham City is set to hit late 2011.