Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League ended up being one huge flop for Rocksteady, but instead of shutting the studio down, they’re getting one more chance to work on a new game—which is going to be a return to the Arkham franchise.
According to a rumor from Lunatic Ignus (via ComicBook), Rocksteady is allegedly working on a Batman game which will be set in the world of Batman Beyond. What’s more, it’s allegedly going to be a PlayStation exclusive—possibly coming out around the time of the PS6.
For context, Batman Beyond was an animated series that came out in 1999 and told the story of the next Batman after Bruce Wayne, Terry McGinnis. The story takes place in Neo-Gotham, after Bruce Wayne becomes too old to be the Batman. He runs into Terry who steals his futuristic batsuit, and from that point, Terry becomes the new Dark Knight with an older Bruce Wayne being his ‘guy in the chair’.
The series has been lauded for trying to do everything different with the Batman mythos, like giving Terry a family and giving him all kinds of futuristic gadgets. While he does have a run-in with classic Batman villains like Joker, Terry does come with his own rogues gallery, and not all of them are based on someone that Batman’s fought before.
If anything, Rocksteady can very easily start a new trilogy with the Batman Beyond timeline. They can just update their map of Gotham and change the Batmobile so it can fly around rather than just shift from car to tank. They also have the chance to add more tricks to Terry’s kit like invisibility.
With Terry also having run-ins with the Justice League, maybe they can add those characters down the line as well. Do what they wanted to do with Suicide Squad before it was made to pivot into a live-service model.
Then again, this is just a rumor for now, but hopefully we get an official update soon.
