This game looks good but I can only hope that this isn't the ONLY good batman game in development right now. I hope the rumors are true and that Pandemic isn't making a piece of trash based on the upcoming Dark Knight movie.

Gagamus

DO WANT!

jonfiredaman02

Moar lego is always good.

Spiffyness

@dsmx: Then I guess all that time I spent playing LEGO Star Wars didn't happen.

SilentPredator

I honestly think they should take existing game franchises and make them into Lego games. Lego Tomb Raider would be the best of the series. Lego Zelda would be better than Twilight Princess I am sure. Lego Mega-Man? Imagine the possibilities...

wallapuctus

I hope Mr. Freeze, Two Face, Poison Ivy, and Clay Face are in it.

mrplow8

@Number41:
Does this make you happier (sure, it's a custom design, but I based it on the scale of his B:TAS incarnation)? Oh yeah, and Penguin has shorty legs, but the drawback is that they're not articulated.

Purple Dave

"those LEGOs all look the same to me"

Kotaku is racist against lego people!

Rebelphoenix83

I agree this looks awesome, but it's weird how all the characters have to have the same size body proportions. I uderstand that's how Lego people are, but still... Batman, Robin, Harley, and Killer Croc all the same size? Gonna take some getting used to.

That said, I haven't purchased a Batman game since Konami's Batman Returns on SNES, but that's sure to change once September rolls around.

Number41

@Gouki4u:
Weirder yet were some of the "actions" they built into LEGO Star Wars 2. If you played as Slave Leia and pushed the Force button, she'd do a little belly dance routine. Gammorrean guards would start doing an air guitar routine with their axes, and if you tried to attack anything with Lando when he was standing next to Leia, he'd lean her back and start kissing her.

@FranUnFine:
He featured quite prominently in Batman: The Animated Series 15 years ago, and he was released in the first wave of LEGO Batman sets. In fact, so far the only villain I've seen in any of the pre-release material that you can't buy is Harley Quinn, and she's due out this summer. Gordon and the cops aren't stock minifigs either, but they appear to be more or less buildable using stock parts (Gordon might need a different color jacket to get the tie and badge combo, and I didn't really catch the design on the cop torsos).

@RRRansom:
I think you already missed it. Drew was mentioned when Crecente said Flynn was vacating the weekend post.

@Weirdwolf:
Clayface and Hush haven't been produced as minifigs, so I'd give them fairly slim odds of showing up. Ivy came out in the Arkham set, and Bane was in the recent Bat-Tank set, so they're a lot more likely. So far the villains that they've alrady got designs for include Catwoman, Croc, Two-Face (and goons), Joker (and goons), Penguin (and penguins), Mr. Freeze (and goons), Riddler, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Bane, and Harley Quinn. For any other villains, they'd need to get The LEGO Company to release official designs or risk having them not match if they ever use them in actual sets.

As for the Star Wars crossover, I wouldn't be shocked if they let you unlock a character or two, but this game will likely have several different game mechanics that weren't available in the LSW trio, and the same would hold for the LIJ game. While Freeplay mode will automatically make sure you have at least one character with every skill package that you've unlocked, they'd have to code in all the game mechanics from any previously used properties every time they add a new one to the library.

@GARlock:
Not an official minifig yet (if ever), but at least this time they wouldn't be able to mispronounce his name like Liam Neeson did.

Purple Dave

This looks totally sweet.

fecalchaos

needs moar b00bs. hell, life in general needs moar b00bs. >_>

theherlihyboy

ROFLMAO, also watching the other legobatman vids, he always keeps a straight face, this game is epic win

nypad5

@dawimp523:

Well Gametap=Turner=WB=Time Warner

Batman=DC Comics=WB=Time Warner

endaround

Next up it's Lego Star Wars!!!1!1 Oh wait...

phextin

Needs Ra's Al Ghul.

GARlock

@Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.:
I beg to differ!
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Weirdwolf

@acez2087: There is no brick.

Damn, this looks so awesome. Lol @ kissy kissy Catwoman and Robin going 'Eww, girls!'. For a family-friendly franchise, the Lego games have a pretty anarchic sense of humour.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

I swear I'm a slave to these Lego games. First Star Wars, next Indiana Jones, and finally Batman...What's next, Lego Matrix???

acez2087

Why is the announcer that does all the GameTap game promotions in this trailer? Anyway, the game looks great! I might have to rent this & Lego Indiana Jones! Families(mostly parents) are going to eat this thing up!!

dawimp523

I wonder when they say the "everybody" has escaped it includes clayface,bane,ivy and hush? is there a list of characters floating around? I do hope it includes some of the more modern additions like Harley. Hmm maybe Zsasz might not make an appearance. It would be great if they allowed the characters unlocked in the Lego starwars games to be included but that would be just too awesome for anybody to deal with.
Now all I have to do is resist the temptation to kill Robin over and over and over and over...........

Weirdwolf

I've only ever read one Batman comic in my life, and I'm still getting this....
Because Lego makes anything good.
Shit if they made Lego Crazy Frog I would buy it

MasterBalls

Hi Drew, welcome to the Kotaku Tower

yashichi8bit

So awesome.

@VioletArrows: ABSOLUTELY make a Lego Justice League.

Bernard McGraw

@SilentPredator: Anyone who had played a lego game wouldn't say that.

dsmx

Why did I watch that? Now I HAVE to go buy it.

Just don't make a LEGO Justice League, and things might be okay.

VioletArrows

@justhesh: *Boy Meets World high five!*

Malavin

@wallapuctus: It's because you don't expect much from a LEGO game. If these were regular games with the same mechanics, people would trash it. Because it's a LEGO game people let it slide.

SilentPredator

Killer Cros makes all the more sense considering he will be in the Batman: Gotham Knight anime project.

Also, I don't think he is a particularly obscure character given his regular appearances in the comics and animated series over the years.

@DarkHogosha: That line (and by extension the entire episode) was awesome.

Lackshmana

Why are the Lego games 10x better than real games?

wallapuctus

@FranUnFine: who doesn't know about killer croc?

HawaiianActor

@FranUnFine: I love killer croc glad to see that he will be in this game. Also glad that this will be on 360 and Wii I can't wait to play it!!

_Ted_

@FranUnFine:
Aw, c'mon, he's got one of the greatest lines in the Animated Series (though, really, it's just Batman in that episode):

"I THREW A ROCK AT HIM!"

DarkHogosha

@FranUnFine: Everyone else just went "WTF is the Lizard doing in there?"

justhesh

I love the Catwoman sultry walk. XD

CyricZ

Why does this game look awesome? However, I wish the backgrounds were also lego.

JoBo

Is there going to be a proper post introducing Drew? Some of us weren't here when Kotaku started.

RRRansom

But... I don't want to wait until September.

BrianReed

HOW DARE YOU MOON ME JOKER! I WILL BUY THIS GAME MERELY TO KICK YOUR ASS!

Shit...that advertisement worked. D:

Furious_Liver

i wish the environment was made of legos.

NOKS415

@Gouki4u: You just answered your own question.

dowingba

@HawaiianActor: sorry for the double post, just wanted to edit that to *HER*...

HawaiianActor

damn it, now i am gunna be singing about vicki vale all day long, thanks alot drew! lol

anyway... i am pumped for this game! anything batman gets my motor goin, especially when harley quinn is involved. (lego's unfortunately just don't do he justice)

HawaiianActor

Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones look awesome, I can't wait to pick them both up.

BassForever

The Lego Star Wars games never interested me..but this and Lego Indiana Jones look pretty amazing.

Amnesiac85

Stop the presses, who is that?

+ Watch video

DiscipleofJamzy

This game is just made of WIN!

-EDGE-

Nice Batdance joke Drew! Welcome back, too.

Kinketsu

@Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice:
Awww, I want a job at Kotaku...
anyway, this game looks all kinds of awesome. I love Batman, and I semi-enjoyed Lego's as a kid, so this is a perfect mix.

TheSonicGamer

Hello Drew, nice to meet you.

This does look great.

SorenKier

This game looks just as great as Lego Star Wars.

Pangaru

I wonder why there is a LEGO Killer Croc. Up until the first in-game-shot of him I thought I was more or less the only person that knew this character at all. o.0;

FranUnFine

All right, you got me. I'm sold.

Curse my fascination with LEGO'd franchises!

@Drew:

Hi! :)

Troubadour

I've never understood the allure of these LEGO games, but LEGO Catwoman sashaying around like that is hilarious.

Gouki4u

I'm already starting to like your picture choices Drew ;)

oh and this reminded me of a Lego version of the Dark Night trailer:

+ Watch video

NeoAkira

@Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice: Sorta like Chad Vader.

the-hypnotoad

Who the fuck is Drew?!! It's Brian's black-sheep older brother who sleeps on the rec room couch and never did anything with his life so Mama Crecente pressured Brian into giving him a job at Kotaku, but he doesn't do anything except play games, make obscene jokes and oogle at Maggie Green's boobs.

Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice

Was that Commissioner Gordon or Mr. Feeney?

justhesh

Keep bringing on the Lego goodness.

@Bernard McGraw: Not only a Lego Justice League but a Lego A-Team as well.... Imagine all the ass that a Lego Mr. T would kick!!!

Mr.SithNinja