Gotham City Impostors is an upcoming first-person shooter video game set in the universe of DC Comics' Batman.
Developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the downloadable game will be played from the perspective of two teams each trying to kill the other: one with people dressed like Batman and the other with people dressed like his archenemy, Joker.
It is set to be released on Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows, in Winter 2012.
The game will be playable by at least eight players simultaneously. The player can customize their costume, gadgets and other aspects of the game.
It will feature a colorful and over-the-top visual style, including such settings as an amusement park.
In addition to guns and knives, the players will be able to use other gadgets such as grappling hooks, glider wings, rollerskates and explosives.
The game includes both conventional guns and outlandish weapons, including a grenade fashioned like a jack-in-the-box and a rocket launcher made of PVC piping.
One capture the flag-style mode of the game, called "Psychological Warfare", involves the two teams trying to bring a battery back to their base and defend it long enough for it to allow a machine to brainwash the other team.
The Escapist writer Allistair Pinsof called the demo a "carbon copy" of Call of Duty first-person shooter games, but said it added enough new features to be enjoyable.
G4 writer Leah Jackson said of the playable demo: "Quite frankly, the game doesn't feel like your run of the mill downloadable title.
It controls great, looks fantastic, and with all of the options, I can say that I was quite impressed."
