
There have been many shames along the walk of Batman history. To be fair, most of them were caused by Adam West. But the Batman films have had their moments of shame as well. GR seems to recall a certain California Governor making an appearance in one of the poorer ones. While the last two movies have been much better, video games based off films have a way of being cursed. So why even bother trying to make a mediocre game in-cannon with the Dark Knight, especially when there's so much you can do with everything else? That's what the guys over at Rocksteady Studios thought too.

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