If you've yet to pick up the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine, or it hasn't landed in your mailbox, stop reading here to avoid any more spoilers beside the glaring headline and awfully lit photo accompanying it. While maybe you haven't flipped through the pages of the latest issue, photobucketer rileywhite72 has, and decided to share the mag's Batman: Arkham Origins feature with the whole wide interwebs.
As revealed in the pages of the mag, Jervis Tetch, or as he's better known, The Mad Hatter, is the latest trying villain trying to make big bucks from Black Mask by taking out Batman. To those who don't know, Tetch obviously has an affinity for the works of Lewis Carrol, who also happens to be an insane, but genius, sociopath. Once a neural scientist that worked for Waynetech, somewhere along the line, Tetch literally went mad, falling down the proverbial rabbit hole into a schizophrenic filled delusion. His genius for technology remained intact, which he uses to create computer chips that allow him to control the minds of others when implanted. Given such a talent, Tetch isn't much of a fighter, and usually relies on others to do the dirty work.
Apparently, Warner Bros. Montreal loved Tetch's brief appearance in Arkham City, and wanted to flesh him out a bit more.
As Origins' creative director Eric Holmes states in the issue, Hatter is meant to provide the same sort of hallucinatory gameplay Scarecrow gave in the last Arkham game, perhaps signaling we won't be seeing Jonathan Crane any time soon. "Whereas Scarecrow in Arkham Asylum was this fear-driven experience, the Mad Hatter is more of a psychotropic experience. It's more psychedelic, it's a little more trippy."
Going by other pictures snapped by riley, it looks like Tetch has his own henchmen that also sport an Alice in Wonderland themed attire, most of them wearing pink rabbit masks.
With Tetch now included, this expands Origins rogue gallery, which consists of: Copperhead, Deadshot , Black Mask, Deathstroke, The Penguin, The Joker, Bane, Killer Croc, and Anarky. Personally, I was hoping for a few more Bat-villains that had never been in a game before, but it should still be interesting to see if the Mad Hatter can provide some more interesting hallucinations than the Scarecrow.
Batman: Arkham Origins is out on PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and Xbox 360 this October.
