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Eidos Announces Batman: Arkham Asylum New Batman game set entirely in Gotham's iconic madhouse. By Kris Pigna, 08/13/2008 Tired of waiting for Electronic Arts to figure out what to do with their Dark Knight game? Let Eidos comfort you in their warm embrace -- in the latest issue of Game Informer, the publisher has announced Batman: Arkham Asylum, a new game based generally on the Batman comics (NeoGAF, via Kotaku).
By "based generally," that is to say Eidos owns the rights to the Batman comics (while EA owns the rights to the Batman movies), but Batman: Arkham Asylum isn't specifically based on the graphic novel of the same name. Rather, it'll reportedly pull from all 70 years of comic history, with an original story crafted by Paul Dini (who served as a writer, producer, and editor for Batman: The Animated Series), and artwork and character designs by DC Comics studio Wildstorm.
The game is in fact set entirely in Arkham, which Batman has to invade after The Joker takes it over. There will be plenty of other characters in the game, including classic villains such as The Riddler, Penguin, Scarecrow, and Killer Croc, and with Commissioner Gordon and his daughter, Barbara, serving as allies. According to a NeoGAF member's report of the Game Informer article, the persistent yet enclosed setting supposedly gives the game more of a BioShock or Chronicles or Riddick feel, as opposed to the usual open-world superhero games. It's running on Unreal Engine 3, and is played from a third-person, over-the-shoulder view, with emphasis both on combat and detective work.
The fighting system works with just three buttons -- attack, stun, and throw. There will also be stealth (or as the developers call it, "predatory") elements to the action, and some boss fights will even incorporate Zelda-like puzzle solving, with Batman needing to use his gadgets in certain ways to take down foes. The detective elements will also focus on puzzle solving, with gameplay features similar to Metroid Prime's scanner visor -- Batman will use a visor that'll highlight "points of interest," as well as forensic devices that, as one example, will allow him to detect and follow trails of fingerprints.
BioShock, Metroid Prime, Zelda -- those are some lofty names to be dropping, but all the elements that Arkham Asylum seems to be borrowing do sound like the ingredients of a great Batman game, and it seems like a lot of thought has gone into fitting them together. The game's not set for release until sometime in 2009 (for PS3, 360, and PC), so there's plenty of time to hope that Eidos will be able to pull it all off.
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ive been very disapointed with batman games in the past. just not jumping on the bandwagon yet..
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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Game hasnt even been developed yet, and already its being condemned....ya gotta love this board!
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ive been very disapointed with batman games in the past. just not jumping on the bandwagon yet.. Over the years I have enjoyed more Batman games than I have disliked. In fact, the last Batman game I played was Batman Begins, and that was a great little game, albeit unoriginal!
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Game hasnt even been developed yet, and already its being condemned....ya gotta love this board! i read the script!
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batman don't have a stellar, rated A record, but they're not all garbage. at worst, many of them get lost in a sea of mediocrity.
i really liked the animated series game on the SNES and the two on gamecube, so there's definite potential for them being good. the movie-based ones on the NES and SNES were pretty good, though they got a little tedious, but thats a general commentary on a ton of 8/16 bit games. i thought batman begins was pretty poor, as was batman forever and batman and robin. there was another comic-based one for the gamecube whose name i can't remember (dark tomorrow?) but that was pretty bad.
no idea what to expect from this one -- we dont really know what type of game it'll be, nor have we even seen a screen shot. im a big paul dini fan, so thats at least a good start.
i will say i find it pretty amazing that there's no "the dark knight" game yet. this might be the first blockbuster to not have a subsequent game in years.
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I loved the 1988 comic-based Batman game on the C64!
The Burton movie one was also good on the C64, in fact it was better then the amiga version - I renamed the amiga version, Fatman!
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i will say i find it pretty amazing that there's no "the dark knight" game yet. this might be the first blockbuster to not have a subsequent game in years.
It's cause of the late release date of the Begins game. That and poor sales of recent movie adaptations...uh...to video games.
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ive been very disapointed with batman games in the past. just not jumping on the bandwagon yet.. Over the years I have enjoyed more Batman games than I have disliked. In fact, the last Batman game I played was Batman Begins, and that was a great little game, albeit unoriginal! to each his own. cunt!
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Adventures of Batman and Robin for SNES was really fun.
Batman Returns for SNES was ok but got boring quick, i think it was one of those games that wouldn't let you save progress so you had to start over when you died.
Batman Vengeance for PS2 was great, like playing new episodes of TAS. And fun.
Batman Dark Tomorrow for XBox was shit. terrible controls, fixed cameras that made walking down a hallway difficult. I didn't get past the first level or so. just too annoying.
Batman Begins was fun, but at times the stealth aspect got a bit boring. but overall it was an interesting game. not great, but interesting.
They're making a Dark Knight game to coincide with the DVD release. I really hope there is some free roaming to it. Ever since Spider-man 2 I have wanted a good DC game with free roam like that. Superman Returns did that but didn't have much non-game content to keep things interesting, Batman would be perfect with a GTA type game.
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I liked Return of the Joker for Game Boy.
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It was a dark and gritty fucking game.
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I have wanted a good DC game with free roam like that. Superman Returns did that but didn't have much non-game content to keep things interesting, Batman would be perfect with a GTA type game. Totally! I thought the same things when I read about this mediocre game they're talking about. I do not know, or understand, the financial and legal aspects as to why DC or Marvel haven't gone to Rockstar and begged them to do a free-roaming Marvel New York or DCU. It just seems obvious to me. Can you imagine how awesome a comic-based game with the graphics and detailed style of GTAIV? My god, it would sell trillions...
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thedoctor argumentative Moderator Timelord. Drunkard. 15000+ posts Wed Aug 13 2008 10:38 PM Reading a post Forum: Arcade Room Thread: Batman: Arkham Asylum
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i will say i find it pretty amazing that there's no "the dark knight" game yet. this might be the first blockbuster to not have a subsequent game in years.
It's cause of the late release date of the Begins game. That and poor sales of recent movie adaptations...uh...to video games. EA shit the bed with the game. They were making it to release with the movie, but it sucked.
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Captain Sammitch innocent Moderator tantillo taunter 10000+ posts Wed Aug 13 2008 11:06 PM Reading a post Forum: Arcade Room Thread: Batman: Arkham Asylum
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Man, I remember playing a NES version of Batman when the Keaton/Nicholson movie was released.
T'was insanely difficult, so I used cheat codes or some other rubbish to get to the boss fight at the end with the Joker...still couldn't defeat it.
I played that last boss fight for hours on end, and finally said "the FUCK with it", and gave up.
Some company or another released a "Return of the Joker" game after the insanely difficult one, and it was a lot easier, therefore I loved that game.
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MisterJLA talkative Moderator Epic Take Maker 15000+ posts Wed Aug 13 2008 11:11 PM Reading a post Forum: Arcade Room Thread: Batman: Arkham Asylum
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I have wanted a good DC game with free roam like that. Superman Returns did that but didn't have much non-game content to keep things interesting, Batman would be perfect with a GTA type game. Totally! I thought the same things when I read about this mediocre game they're talking about. I do not know, or understand, the financial and legal aspects as to why DC or Marvel haven't gone to Rockstar and begged them to do a free-roaming Marvel New York or DCU. It just seems obvious to me. Can you imagine how awesome a comic-based game with the graphics and detailed style of GTAIV? My god, it would sell trillions... in all fairness, Marvel has the Spider-man free roam games. They're really detailed, have lots of side things to do and crimes to stop, and Ultimate has human torch races. But yeah, they both need to crank out free roam games. I'm hoping that's what the MMORPG will be.
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Maybe THE Bat-man can free roam San Francisco, and judge some hula hoop contests.
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That's some dark shit right there. When is this thing going to come out! I am so stoked for it! In a dark sort of way.
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You are banned from playing that game, young man, it'll darken your innocent mind. Go play GTA or somehting.
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I have wanted a good DC game with free roam like that. Superman Returns did that but didn't have much non-game content to keep things interesting, Batman would be perfect with a GTA type game. Totally! I thought the same things when I read about this mediocre game they're talking about. I do not know, or understand, the financial and legal aspects as to why DC or Marvel haven't gone to Rockstar and begged them to do a free-roaming Marvel New York or DCU. It just seems obvious to me. Can you imagine how awesome a comic-based game with the graphics and detailed style of GTAIV? My god, it would sell trillions... You guys do realise that the last few Spidey movie games were free roam yeah? They were also pretty shitty!
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I have wanted a good DC game with free roam like that. Superman Returns did that but didn't have much non-game content to keep things interesting, Batman would be perfect with a GTA type game. Totally! I thought the same things when I read about this mediocre game they're talking about. I do not know, or understand, the financial and legal aspects as to why DC or Marvel haven't gone to Rockstar and begged them to do a free-roaming Marvel New York or DCU. It just seems obvious to me. Can you imagine how awesome a comic-based game with the graphics and detailed style of GTAIV? My god, it would sell trillions... in all fairness, Marvel has the Spider-man free roam games. They're really detailed, have lots of side things to do and crimes to stop, and Ultimate has human torch races. But yeah, they both need to crank out free roam games. I'm hoping that's what the MMORPG will be. Oh, you did realise!
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