Batman: Arkham Asylum Video Game

[Vendetta]

Who the fuck is that? Could it be Clayface (my favorite character ever)

The Riddler?

[R.W.]

Top one is Killer Croc

[Raven52]

Bottom one's Riddler's.

Translates to something like,

"I have loved,

I have suffered,

But now,

I hate"

[The Future]

Looks fantastic, I am going to buy it for sure since I have been on a Batman craze the last few months with TDK and The Animated Series as well.

[apsham]

Umm... fucking wow, that's pretty dark compared to what I was thinking. I quite like it though.

[Skummy]

Gahhhhh. Damn them not releasing this on the Wii or PS2, I'm going to have to buy a bloody console just to play this, it looks phenomenal.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

Gahhhhh. Damn them not releasing this on the Wii or PS2, I'm going to have to buy a bloody console just to play this, it looks phenomenal.

Can't you play it on the pc?

[Skummy]

Nah, not even close. I've got a vast and ever-growing collection of laptops and two desktop PCs, but none of them are what you'd call gaming machines in the slightest, and I've never been a big PC gamer anyway. I've been threatening to get a 360 for months, though, so this could be an ideal excuse.

[The Future]

Killer Croc looks fucking scary, thank god I saw the screenshot or I probably would have fainted when he showed up out of nowhere in the game.

[abundant]

GTTV will be showing gameplay footage this Friday.

Edited November 19, 2008 by abundant

[abundant]

Kevin Conroy confirmed Edited December 17, 2008 by abundant

[abundant]

New trailer. Edited January 29, 2009 by abundant

[Hajjhowe]

Hmm, gameplay looks like it could be really good or really bad. Having the voice actors is a big plus however.

[abundant]

Batman: Arkham Asylum First Look

[MalaCloudy Black]

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/02/joystiq-...-arkham-asylum/

I want this so bad.

[abundant]

Gameplay demo Edited March 27, 2009 by abundant

[VerbalPuke]

I'm not even a fan of Batman, but that looks fucking fun. I haven't played a good beat em up in awhile, this looks like it could fill that void quite nicely.

[Animal]

That looks bloody amazing, can't wait for this to hit the stores!

[abundant]

http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/batman-a...091217244586002

This section, which talks about the stealth game play sounds so fucking badass.

Starting in a shower block off to the side, a quick scan with the Detective Mode visor tells us that a lone grunt is patrolling nearby. Easy pickings to warm up with. Stepping into the cover of a shower cubicle, we throw a sonic batarang into a nearby pillar and wait. Sure enough, the goon shuffles in to investigate the sound, like a big ugly moth to massively painful flame.

As he unwittingly turns his back on us to check out the source of the noise, we silently step out behind him, and one crunching sleeper hold later he's out of the game. One down, four to go. The rest don't even know he's missing yet. We carefully step out into the main room and use the fast and intuitive target lock to grapple soundlessly up to a gargoyle close to the ceiling.

There's an oblivious henchman guarding a nearby gantry below. As he gets closer, we're offered the context-sensitive option of a gliding kick and we take it, swooping down to clobber him in the back of the head and disappearing back into the ceiling a second later. He's down but not out, and everyone now knows that we're here. But this a good thing. They're noticeably scared, and scared people make mistakes. They begin grouping together, but we have ways of breaking up the party. Time to really start spinning the web.

The visor tells us that one of the small treatment rooms below has a structurally weak ceiling, so we swing over to set a trap, silently dropping onto the roof to lay some explosive gel. It's a good trap, but it needs bait, so we grapple further away to get a shallow throwing angle and put another sonic batarang in through the doorway. Sure enough, an unlucky goon takes the bait and breaks away from the pack to investigate. Click. Boom. He's down. But this is just layer number one of a great big cake o' pain.

Spotting a convenient gargoyle directly over the new hole in the ceiling, we get over to it and tap B to dangle upside down underneath, ready to drop on the next thug as he investigates the wreckage. Having dragged him back up into the shadows, knocked him out and strung him up under the gargoyle, we swing away for a better vantage point of our new pinata. Noticing that the increasingly shaky penultimate hood is walking over to check out where his buddy went, we're struck with an idea. Just to see if it will work, we wait for the new guy to walk underneath his stricken comrade, and throw a batarang at the rope suspending our previous victim, hoping that the game will allow us to cut him loose. Brilliantly, it does and the weighty slab of thug plummets to flatten his would-be helper.

With only one enemy left, we can afford to take our time. A visor scan tells us that his heart is racing, compounding the obvious visual clues that the poor guy is terrified out of his mind. Naturally, we decided to f*ck with him for a while, and spend the next couple of minutes dropping in and out of the room and throwing batarangs out of the shadows to freak him out. In his panic, he repeatedly blind-fires into dark corners of the ceiling we are no longer in. With a chuckle, we swoop in for the final takedown. Job done.

[AnnIQ Edison]

This game is sounding more like Splinter Cell everytime I read a review. I'm liking it.