A second visit to Arkham won’t work either, though; we’ve explored most of the island, and unlike BioShock’s Rapture, the developers can’t plausibly pretend that another huge, unseen section existed all along. So is a sequel even possible?
Yes! Here are a few environments that could work:
An abandoned amusement park. Batman’s always battling villains on rundown roller coasters, or chasing them through cobwebbed funhouses. Gotham City clearly has at least one out-of-business carnival… possibly dozens. Like the asylum, this setting is bordered, manageably sized and packed with themed zones. The Joker is right at home here.
Wayne Manor. The family estate is enormous, especially if you consider the modified caverns underneath and the potential wilderness surrounding. Get Bruce and Alfred out of town for a few weeks and let the vengeful Riddler redecorate. Their house would be as crazy as Arkham in no time.
A closed city block. More urban landscapes are fine so long as they’re not open-world. With the right planning, a villain like Two-Face could claim an entire block (or two, or three) as his turf and dare Batman to evict him. Logical boundaries might be fallen buildings, rubble, electrified fences or docks. Speaking of which…
No Man’s Land. In this year-long comic miniseries, Gotham is ravaged by an earthquake, quarantined by the U.S. government and abandoned by much of the population. Gangs and supervillains carve the metropolis into territories: Mr. Freeze, Zsasz, Poison Ivy, Bane, Scarecrow, Joker, Two-Face and even Lex Luthor all claim a piece of the pie. Batman would have to visit each area in turn, slowly but surely taking back his city. Ooh, we get chills just thinking about it!
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