Gotham Knights’ trailer shows Robin can teleport, so who needs Batman?

Get ahead of Gotham Knights’ October release date, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is spotlighting one of the four playable character — Robin. Robin, alongside Nightwing, Batgirl, and Red Hood, takes over Batman’s job to protect Gotham city in WB Games Montréal superhero action role-playing game. Red Hood, Nightwing and Batgirl were previously featured in trailers.

The new trailer shows Robin — Tim Drake, the third Robin under Batman in this particular timeline — using a staff to fight his way through the city’s bad guys. Developer WB Games Montréal noted in a news release that Robin is also a master in “stealth techniques, psychological warfare and deductive reasoning.”

Here’s what else WB Games Montréal had to say:

Teleportation technology using the Justice League satellite. RobinHe can speed across the battlefield and use surprise and speed to his advantage during a fight. He makes up the difference in his experience with natural intelligence and detective skills comparable to Batman. RobinDeeply believes Gotham City has a Batman, and dreams of one day taking up that mantle. He will be there when it is time.

Robin can use Justice League equipment to teleport. Robin, of course, doesn’t have any actual superpowers — like the rest of the Bat family, they’re regular people acting as vigilantes, and providing them with Justice League technology seems to be a way to differentiate the heroes a bit.

Gotham KnightsThis will arrive on Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and Windows PCs on October 25th. This year, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions were cancelled.