One of the biggest reveals from DC's FanDome was a first look at WB Games Montreal's Gotham Knights video, coming sometime in 2021. The game will be an open-world RPG, featuring a collection of Batman's closest allies working to defend Gotham City in light of his absence. Players will be able to play solo or online with friends as they travel the streets of Gotham, looking to dispense some justice as either Robin, Nightwing, Red Hood, or Batgirl. As a result, Gotham Knights is a perfect name for the game, but it also has a pretty cool history from the comics the characters are based on.
Gotham Knights will allow players to play as one of Batman's most loyal friends and allies, who are essentially of his family. With Batman being gone and having died at the onset of the games's story, it will be up to these other knights to answer the call and keep the people of Gotham safe from the inevitable rise of Gotham's criminals, hoping to make it big and spread some mayhem in the wake of the Dark Knight's ing, like the Court of Owls. The premise of the story does bring to mind the DC comics event, Battle for the Cowl, which saw several criminals and heroes alike scrambling in the chaos to find meaning, purpose, and the new status quo after Batman died for a time. The event also included many of the characters being seen in this game. However, the games' title also has a rather large connection to the comics as well.
Back in the early 2000's from 2000 to 2006, Gotham Knights was an ongoing series created by a collection of writers and artists, featuring several different stories focused on Batman's allies. Later on, the series would expand to feature some of Batman's rogues as well. part of DC's Batman: Black and White collection.
It should also be noted that Gotham Knights was going to be the original name for the sequel series of Batman: The Animated Series that eventually became known as The New Batman Adventures which ran from 1997-1999, two years after the original series had ended in 1995. This new series also carried its focus more on Batman's allies and other characters in the Gotham City mythos, as opposed to Batman himself.
All in all, using the name Gotham Knights for WB Games' latest project is extremely fitting given the subject matter and the history of the source material. Hopefully the games itself from the story to the actual gameplay will be able to live up to the name.
