The first game is my favorite game of this generation and I don’t even really like Batman. The trailers for the sequel look so f’n cool I can’t wait to play it.
Check out this trailer with Hugo Strange. I know its pre-rendered but it still gets me so psyched for this game.
Anyone else stoked for this one?
I loved the Arkham Asylum. This should be good too!
I’m replaying Arkham Asylum now and enjoying it quite a bit. Yeah, I’m looking forward to the sequel too.
Add me to the list.
I just read a post elsewhere that said that Batman:AA was nearly identical to the Wolverine:Origin game, which I hadn’t played. Anyone know if there’s any truth to that? And if so, which came first?
I’ll be the first to admit that I lack knowledge of the Batman mythology, but shouldn’t it be about Gotham city?
ETA: Not that I am not pleased about this. I loved AA. (PC)
It is my understanding that, in the game, that Gotham walled off part of the city as a large jail, ala Escape from New York. Hence Arkham City.
Or just that a shit ton of inmates escaped Arkham and took over Gotham, or are at least running amok.
I really can’t wait. Really really can’t wait. I loved the first and am looking forward to seeing how they follow up. I hope they keep the detecting type bits of the game. That aspect is what made it a bit more than good.
The best I heard about X-men Origins:Wolverine was that it was pretty good for a movie game. So, I would be shocked if it were identical to Batman: AA, which was one of the very best games of the year. Wikipedia says Wolverine came out first. But, I haven’t played it, so I can’t really say much about how identical it was.
If it were legal I would marry the Arkham Asylum game.
Arkham Asylum was mind-bogglingly awesome. I’m psyched for AA.
I played Arkham Asylum this past weekend after a lot of starts. (Is it just me or do others have a hard time with some games with lots and lots of different controls for each button and then having to remember all of the combos each time you pick up a game after an absence?)
It is a great game and I’m almost done but I tell ya what, I’m pissed at the designers who had me jumping off the couch as I thought my XBOX was RRoDing again. I had just got a new one a couple months ago and there’s a scene right before meeting the Scarecrow for the third time where the graphics get all pixillated. Which is exactly what happened when I played Dead Space 2. Grr.
That said, once I was able to spend some quality time with the game, I’m really excited for AC.
According to Wiki:
If you follow that link you’ll get a spoiler of more gadgets too…
I’m not much of a video game player, but I didn’t have a lot of trouble with that in Arkham Asylum. On the other hand I’m playing through Dead Space now and I’m constantly stasis-ing when I want to heal, reloading when I mean to perform an action, forgetting that I don’t have to hold B when I grab some object with kinesis …
Heh. Ever play Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube? If your character’s “sanity” level is low it tries to mess with you—not only in-game stuff but, IIRC, falsely giving you a disconnected controller error or claiming that your saved game was deleted, among other things. Cute but a bit fourth-wall breaking.
I too am looking forward to Arkham City. Arkham Asylum was a nice piece of work, very few glaring flaws.
I was amused at the review that suggested that once you got the “x-ray vision” gadget in Arkham, there really wasn’t a reason to turn it off, except to enjoy the beautiful graphics. That game made me much more a fan of Batman than the comic or the movies ever did.
Bwuh? Having played both I have to say they’re not even superficially similar. Wolverine is a straight-up action game where Old Man Logan can almost never be killed (except for that one level where he actually loses his healing ability) while Batman is a stealth game where the object is NOT to run head first into gunfire.
I just finished Arkham Asylum last night, and it’s definitely my favorite game in a very long time–probably since Portal (come to think of it, the puzzle/action combination is a bit similar). Now I’m totally looking forward to the sequel.
The mouse and keyboard controls on AA were unbelievably good. They leveraged the precision of the mouse perfectly and made you feel bad ass in combat. The only time you could see the games gamepad roots was one scene with croc were camera control was taken away for a minute. The keyboard needs the mouse when precision in movement is required, otherwise it’s awkward moving at angles. And of course it also plays great with a gamepad, making it a perfect title for my htpc.
For you PC gamers some bad news. The developers are working hard in improving the PC version with higher quality assets, textures, a DX 11 renderer, advanced physics, but unfortunately it’s taking them a bit more time to finish, so were not getting the game for another month after consoles 
Pooh also, something my friend just found out, if you are planning on upgrading your video card, now may be the time to do it. If you purchase any Nvidia GTX card you get Batman Arkham City for free!
This sounds like a poor excuse not to release the PC version at the same time as the console one. It’s not the first time a game company has delayed the PC version with the same reason. They did it with Fable 3, and that turned out to be an unoptimized mess. I’m not saying that Arkham City will be a bad port, they did a really good job with Arkham Asylum, I just suspect it’s ready to be released now.
From what I can remember, you have it throughout–or at least so early that you might as well. And it really was something the art team complained about. I expect there will be a downside in the new game.
New article at Nvidia showing off some of the PC exclusive effects.
Love me the Physx touches to the environments and some of the set pieces (the ice shards totally change the mood of that scene).
Tessellation is looking yummy as well!
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/exclusive-physx-in-batman-arkham-city-a-first-look