Hear Troy Baker As The Joker In Batman: Arkham Origins, Plus A New Villain
Despite being a prequel and switching developers away from Rocksteady, Batman: Arkham Origins is actually shaping up to be an awesome entry in the Arkham series of videogames. One major cause for concern was Mark Hamill retiring from the role of the Joker, but Troy Baker sounded pretty good in recent trailers. If you want to completely erase your concerns, watch this clip from New York Comic-Con of Baker reading aloud a monologue from Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke, one of the best Joker-focused comics. Baker sounds right on the money, sounding natural and evoking Hamill’s performance. I’d say we have a worthy successor of voice actors here.
Meanwhile, there was a new trailer for the game revealing a new assassin out for Batman’s head: Electrocutioner, a villain I’ll admit to never hearing of before. The trailer hasn’t been officially released online yet, but there’s shakeycam footage, also from New York Comic-Con. I don’t know much about him, but it seems like he’ll be an entertaining villain to fight.