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Archivist Recovers Footage From Monolith’s Scrapped Nolan-verse Batman Title
You ever wonder what Batman would’ve been like if he drove a tank… and also had a memory-obsessed crime syndicate? Yeah, neither did we—until now.
Game archivist MrTalida just dug up nearly a gig of lost gold from Project Apollo, Monolith’s scrapped 2010 Batman game set in Nolan’s gritty universe. And yes—it had the Tumbler. Not just as a cosmetic prop, but in full motion: tearing through train yards, smashing barrels, and looking insanely cool doing it. Footage from Oct ’09 to Jan ’10 shows the vehicle evolving in real time, complete with Hans Zimmer’s Dark Knight score humming under the wheels.
But here’s the kicker: this game was the secret birthplace of the Nemesis System. Those thugs who remembered your face, learned your tactics, and came back stronger? That started as “Batman enemies that track you.” WB killed it because Nolan didn’t care. Monolith pivoted to Lord of the Rings—and gave us Shadow of Mordor. Now? Monolith’s shuttered. The system, gone.
So… we got a Tumbler demo. A genius mechanic born in obscurity. And the ghost of a Batman game that never was.
Honestly? Kinda perfect.