Remembering Gotham City Impostors Ten Years On

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I was an impostor online way before Among Us. Ten years ago this month, Gotham City Impostors launched to a fairly muted reception, but it slotted into a weird gap in the shooter market that we don't seem to have any more, and I sort of miss it, even if Gotham City Impostors was sort of rubbish. Somehow, it was brilliant, but it was also rubbish. Seems kinda sus (geddit? Cuz 'impostor'? Like Amogus? We are a hoot at TheGamer, aren't we?).

Anyway, if you never played Gotham City Impostors, it was basically Call of Duty except you dressed up as Batman or the Joker. And I do mean 'dressed up'. Batman and Joker weren't in the game at all. Instead it was just random people dressed up as them for a laugh, except they were shooting at you. Usually when someone dresses up at the Joker and starts shooting at people it’s the recipe for tragedy and a bleak indictment of our mental health support systems, but here it was just a right good laugh. The game also spelled The Jokerz with a 'z', which was pretty much the coolest thing a person could do in 2012. Still is today, right gamerz?

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There were four modes, three of which were just King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, and Team Deathmatch except given batty names, and a fourth, much more spectacular mode: Bounty Hunter. It was Team Deathmatch if you imagine all the players were Sonic the Hedgehog, on top of the fact they were all Batman or Joker. Every time a player died, they dropped coins, just as the Blue Blur tends to do. The comedy ching-ching noise was not included, but it was just as silly. You had to scurry to collect all the coins up, as they didn't automatically go to the killer. Like pensioners in Atlantic City, you scrambled