In Batman: Arkham Knight, the Batmobile really is a tank and the game world is five times bigger (hands-on preview)

Batman: Arkham Knight, an open-world action-adventure game coming from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2015, has to be totally awesome because it’s the final chapter of Rocksteady Studios’ Arkham trilogy. So naturally, it has a badass Batmobile, which can transform into a heavily armored mobile tank complete with missile launchers and a 60-millimeter cannon. This kind of cool gadgetry will appeal to longtime Batman fans, who are going to have to wait a little longer to get their hands on this game.

Rocksteady is pulling out the stops (and taking longer than expected) to try to make this the best Batman game ever, starting with a brand new villain, a highly skilled combat specialist and military leader named the Arkham Knight. He’s after Batman, and, based on a preview of the game that I saw in advance of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles next week, the Arkham Knight is going to be a fierce and cutthroat bad guy.