NYCC 2014: The "LEGO Batman 3" Panel Report – Darkest Knights Unveiled

NYCC 2014: The "LEGO Batman 3" Panel Report - Darkest Knights Unveiled

The New York Comic Con 2014 was host to the LEGO Batman 3 panel on Saturday morning, together with the assistant game director Stephen Sharples, game director Arthur Parsons, DC Comics' Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, voice actor Troy Baker, who voices Batman in this game and the Joker in the Arkham Asylum series, and writer/director and renowned geek Kevin Smith.

Several people are commenting on how well the game manages to be faithful to traditional DC Comics versions of characters, while still keeping a sense of humor. That is where the LEGO Games are renowned for.

Johns was especially happy with the way the game turned out, noting that the Suicide Squad can appear in LEGO and still works. Parsons and Sharples added that they put together a list of 20 things they wanted to ask DC to include in the game, expecting to get only 5 of them but getting all 20 and then another 10 on top of that.

In the game, Parsons advised players to stay tuned through the end-credits for several post-credits scenes, one of which features Geoff Johns and Kevin Smith together. Smith and Johns are only two of the real people who populate the game: Johns' colleague Jim Lee is also in the game as Adam West.

Several new characters were revealed at the panel last Saturday, including the Darkest Knight Batman based on the 1994 Elseworlds comic book, Solar Suit Superman based on the 1990′s "Death of Superman" story, Man-Bat, and the Condiment King. However, the biggest audience reaction was reserved for Duck Dodgers as Green Loontern in LEGO form with the voice of Joe Alaskey, reprising his role from the TV show, and for Conan O'Brien.

Also read: Conan O'Brien Joins 'LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham'

A series of gameplay clips led to a surprise visit from actor Stephen Amell, who plays Oliver Queen on Arrow. While he didn't know what to expect walking in, the first thing he says in the game is his "My name is Oliver Queen" speech from the show, except that the speech soon takes all the air and seriousness out of it in typical LEGO fashion. Apparently, the sentence, "I'm wearing really tight pants" figures in there somewhere.

From instructions provided by Toonzone.net, for you to get the Amell as Arrow, "gamers will need to grab the new Arrow downloadable content pack, which is the fourth announced DLC pack of six total, with the other three previously announced DLC packs which are the one based on Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Batman movies, second is the one based on 75th Anniversary Batman pack, and lastly is the one based on the Man of Steel movie." The packs are worth investing for those who really like and play the game. The Arrow pack will allow players to go back to the desert island where Oliver Queen was marooned, and will also include LEGO versions of Diggle, Felicity Smoak, Helena Bertinelli, Slade Wilson, Roy Harper, Sarah Lance, and Malcolm Merlyn.

The LEGO Batman 3 will be available on November 11, 2014 and more characters, DLC pack announcements, and other surprises were all promised by LEGO Games before the game's release date.

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