That's according to an e-mail sent into the June 3rd edition of
Giant Bomb's
Giant Bombcast.
The e-mail is read at the 1:58:50 mark of the podcast and states...
Shadow of Mordor has Batman combat because it started as a Batman game in the Christopher Nolan universe, according to my close friend at WB/Monolith whose working on it. Mr. Nolan's side reportedly changed it's mind and told them to stop making the game so they salvaged as much as they could.
A 2012 thread on
NeoGAF also states that
Monolith was working on a
Dark Knight Rises based game and features concept art from the cancelled project.
Unfortunetely, this isn't the first Nolan universe Batman game that was cancelled. The now defunct
Pandemic Studios was working on
The Dark Knight game before the studio closed. In an interview with
G4,
Gary Oldman talked about doing video over work.
While
Batman Begins was released on major consoles at the time,
The Dark Knight and
The Dark Knight Rises had to settle for mobile releases. It's interesting that games based on both films were cancelled and I wonder what the finished project would have looked like.
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