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Finding The Asylum's Biggest Secret: Arkham City's Blueprints

Many gamers spent hours scouring every nook and cranny of Arkham Asylum last year. Whether it was Riddler trophies, interview tapes, or Chronicles of Arkham, the game wasn't short on hidden goodies. However, there was one area that most people never even knew existed...Warden Quincy Sharp's secret room. Inside this area, you can clearly see blueprints that lay out Arkham City. We ask developer Rocksteady how it remained hidden for so long and we provide a video guide on how to find it yourself.

Even if you've played Batman: Arkham Asylum through and through, got 100 percent clearance, and unlocked all of the achievements or trophies, you still probably haven't found Warden Sharp's secret room right off of his office. It's not located on any of the maps. You can't see the weak wall with Batman's detective vision. And you can only blow it up with several applications of explosive foam. We asked Rocksteady Studios lead narrative designer Paul Crocker how the team kept it hidden in the Internet age:

While building Batman: Arkham Asylum, we placed a number of ‘hooks’ into the game that tie into the ‘Arkham-Verse’. From the beginning we knew that Quincy was a bad guy, and planned what his next move would be. The room obviously ties into Arkham City, but to be fair, we hid it pretty well. We did assume that it would be found eventually and after following forum posts for 6 months or so, decided to announce it in the ‘Game of the Year’ podcast. The fans of the game have been amazing and again, reading the forums, we can see how much they value the efforts we have put into creating the background stories for the various characters and it was great to see all the posts and theories about the secret room once it was discovered. What I think people are really going to enjoy is not just how Arkham Asylum led to Arkham City, but also how the story in Arkham City sheds new light on the events you saw in Arkham Asylum.

Go ahead and give Arkham Asylum another spin in your console if you'd like to check it out for yourself. We show you exactly how to find it in the video below.

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Comments
  • Coooooooooooooooooooooooooool. Little touches like this is what separates a good developer from a great developer from a fantastic developer.

  • I'm going to find this right now.

  • that's awesome. When I finished all the Riddler trophies I thought I've just about found everything in the single-player. It's a great secret seeing as it's never been really known. now i'm gonna have to see if there are other rooms such as this o.o

  • Brilliant.

  • GI is always a little late on their news...

  • I thought I had found everything in Batman AA but wow you tell that the Batman license was in treated with the respect it deserves can't wait for the new Batman.

  • Wow that is so crazy. I never shot for even 100% but that they could hide something like that for months upon months with no one finding it is pretty awesome. If I wasn't leaving for a few days I'd jump in right away.

  • That's pretty cool.

  • What about REV. Harold Zeitgeists hidden room with blueprints for arkham boardwalk?!

  • Just re-bought the game for PS3. Started playing it again today, gonna find this room soon.

  • I just followed instructions and found it.

    Either I'm easily amazed or just simply a reetard but I found this beyond awesome for them to do.

    Even more accolades from me.

  • oh wow, i'll have to check this out tonight.

  • Wow never knew about that secret room.

  • so the new batman is about arkham being expanded into part of Gotham city

  • Has anyone gotten the newest Game Informer? If so please tell me I'm dying to know about Arkham City!!!!
  • im going to find this when i get the game back from my dad

  • Wow, never knew about that.Can't wait to see more of Arkham City.

  • Unbelievable. I can not believe it took so long for that to go public, I thought I saw every crumb in that game.

    I can not believe they were working on concept art for the sequel during that already massive game. I mean that had to have been quite a long time ago they began working on Arkham Asylum . . . I'm wondering if they added that secret room through one of their updates because that's just nuts how much is in there.
  • KOOL , i always wondered that they had put something about the next game on this one , but i never though it would be there

  • blew my mind.

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