You may be asking yourself, “What exactly am I looking at here?” Well, to answer your question, you are watching lost footage from a prototype game called Gotham by Gaslight. Erm….wait, before we get too far into this. Lets take a step back with some back story on Gotham by Gaslight so, for the people who aren’t familiar with it, will understand why the cancelation of this game saddens me to no end.
Gotham by Gaslight was the first of what DC comics came to call the “Elseworld” series. In the Elseworld series DC heroes were placed in time periods that were not their own and have to deal with the problems of that time period. In Batman’s case he was sent to the late 19th early 20th century Europe. Think of it as sort of a steampunk Batman game. Sounds awesome right? It was Batman’s job to hunt down and stop Jack the Ripper. Gotham by Gaslight is a solid comic, held up by many comic readers as one of the best DC comics of all time.
Now back to the game… Developers Day 1 Studio (who brought us the F.3.A.R. series) started development on Batman:GBG and planned to release it on PS3 and 360 sometime between 2009 and 2010, but upon pitching the idea, producers THQ turned them down for funding. So, without funding for the game Day 1 Studio eventually canned the game.
