According to creative director Eric Holmes in an interview with Game Informer, “The main inspiration for Arkham origins is the comic book series Legends of the Dark Knight. It’s a series that started in 1989 and followed in the wake of a big trend of going back in time to examine early career years which I think was started primarily from Batman: Year One.”
“Legends of the Dark Knight represented really important stories for the Batman mythologies because every time Batman met someone, or encountered some idea in the world – for example, the Venom drug – it was the first time he’d ever run across it rather than the 80th time,” he added.
Batman: Arkham Origins was announced last week, and will be coming this Fall 2013 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
