Video Games Week– Gotham City Impostors

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Gotham City Impostors, available for download on the Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and Steam, is a frantic 6-on-6 multiplayer shooter that takes a madcap, Looney Tunes-esque glance at what happens in Gotham when Batman is occupied with other matters. The game allows players to choose between two factions warring for control of Gotham in a variety of modes, from standard team deathmatch and command posts to a capture the flag-style Psych Warfare mode and Bounty Hunter mode, which focuses on collecting tokens dropped when characters die.

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Characters in Gotham City Impostors are quite customizable, allowing players to change details about the weapons, clothing, and size of their in-game avatar in addition to choosing to play as a member of either the Bats (amateur vigilantes inspired by Batman) or the Jokerz (a villainous gang modeled after the Joker.) The game also features a variety of outlandish weapons that add to the cartoonish feel, as players can equip their character with rollerskates, explosives, grappling hooks, and more.

Gotham City Impostors is certainly a non-traditional installment in the legacy of Batman video games, but it nonetheless offers a fun and easy to pick up romp through Gotham from an often-unseen perspective. Does it fit in with the general Batman lore? Not so much (though Detective Comics #867-870 tried to angle the game into canon). Is it a load of fun anyway? You bet.