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[BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM] - Tonight in the steel cage, "THE COMMISSIONER"
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OUT NOW FOR PS3/X360/PC (US/EU)
You poor sods with PCs in Australia have to wait for Sep 24th.
PS3 Demo - On PSN Network
PC Demo - http://www.batmanarkhamasylum.com/demo
360 demo - http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/ga...-d802534307f6/
PC Steam Store link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/35010/
Release Dates
PS3/360 -
NA - 25th August 2009
EU - 28th August 2009
AU - 3rd September 2009
PC
NA - 15th September 2009
EU - 28th August 2009
AU - 24th September 2009
August sales numbers: 303,000 XBox 360; 290,000 PS3 (that's in just under a week, folks)
Missing 3 Joker Teeth in the mansion? They are probably
REVIEWS
Get your review fix from GameRankings.com (may contain spoilers).
GAME INFO
Warning, game spoilers may reside below!
Eurogamer Preview
Inside the Game
The PC system requirements are as follows:
Minimum System Requirements:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3500+
RAM: 1GB for Windows XP 2GB for Windows Vista / Windows 7
GRAPHICS: nVidia 6600 or ATI 1300
SOUND : Microsoft Windows XP/Vista compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c -compatible)
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE: 9GB free disk space
INPUT DEVICES: 100% Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard
Recommended System Requirements:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) or Athlon 64 X2 4600+
RAM: 2GB for Windows XP / 3GB for Windows Vista / Windows 7
GRAPHICS: nVidia 9800GTX or ATI 3870
SOUND : Microsoft Windows XP/Vista compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c -compatible)
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE: 9GB free disk space
INPUT DEVICES: 100% Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard / Xbox 360 Controller for Windows
Features
Collector's Edition
Scans of the CE Doctor's Journal
Voice Cast
SCREENSHOTS
VIDEOS
Check out gameplay videos at GameTrailers
VIRAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Early access to patient interviews - SPOILERS
OUT NOW FOR PS3/X360/PC (US/EU)
You poor sods with PCs in Australia have to wait for Sep 24th.
PS3 Demo - On PSN Network
PC Demo - http://www.batmanarkhamasylum.com/demo
360 demo - http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/ga...-d802534307f6/
PC Steam Store link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/35010/
Release Dates
PS3/360 -
NA - 25th August 2009
EU - 28th August 2009
AU - 3rd September 2009
PC
NA - 15th September 2009
EU - 28th August 2009
AU - 24th September 2009
August sales numbers: 303,000 XBox 360; 290,000 PS3 (that's in just under a week, folks)
Missing 3 Joker Teeth in the mansion? They are probably
on the second level of the Warden's office. Yes, there is a way up.
REVIEWS
Get your review fix from GameRankings.com (may contain spoilers).
GAME INFO
Warning, game spoilers may reside below!
Eurogamer Preview
EUROGAMER- In some ways, Batman is the comic book hero most suited to videogames. Unlike Superman, he's not irritatingly invulnerable; unlike the Hulk, no-one expects him to do anything too CPU-intensive, like destroy an entire city; most importantly, unlike Spider-Man, he isn't saddled with a phoned-in Tobey Maguire voice track that makes him sound like he's battling evil while strung out on Co-codamol. Instead, all Batman needs is a natty cape, two fists, and access to the world's most elaborately deadly issue of the Innovations catalogue.
But look deeper, and it's not so simple. Batman, above all other superheroes, is defined by a particular mood, a brooding eternal midnight built from shadows, claustrophobic alleyways and Halloween freaks; a world, in a word, of fear. It's not just a case of turning down the lights and breaking a few windows, either: you can't fake Gotham City's stylish urban menace, and you can't fake the sense of dread that Batman engenders in his foes. And if you haven't got dread in your Batman game, chances are you haven't actually got a Batman game.
That's why Arkham Asylum is looking promising. It's got the brooding architecture and famous faces, but it's also fitting out its hero as a man who lets his fearsome reputation do a lot of the work for him: in close combat, he can't be beaten, but when the weapons come out, although he can certainly take a few more machinegun rounds than I could, compared to most videogame characters he's made out of old Kit-Kat wrappers and Marmite. With no magic powers, he has to spook his foes, freaking them out and softening them up before swooping in to finish the job.
This curious mixture - flashes of real power wedged tightly against moments of extreme weakness - seems likely to define the pace of the title, but it's currently hard to tell how well the combination will work in the long term. The developers, Rocksteady Studios, are still not ready to reveal exactly how the story fits together, so for now, we can only get a sense of Arkham Asylum's central mechanics by playing two of the game's challenge rooms.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 1
Detective vision reduces your enemies to skeletons. It's like that Chemical Brothers video, but without the Chemical Brothers. And with Batman.
Challenge rooms are just one flavour of over 250 unlockables Rocksteady's threatening to include in the finished game. Dumping you into a discrete part of Arkham and asking you to complete a task (generally clubbing everybody senseless), they're the Dark Knight's take on arcade games: a chance to break away from the central story, and explore simple joys like score multipliers and leaderboards.
At the very least, they suggest that this is one attractive loony bin, filled with pretty dereliction and inviting shadows, peopled by a range of terrifying freaks who appear to have gone insane after a diet composed of tattoo ink, face paint, and steroids. It's often overstated just how much the Unreal Engine guides the look of a game - Epic's tech was capable of turning out Mirror's Edge's lithe chimney-hoppers as well as Gears' rock-fisted grunts, but there's a certain shock of the familiar the first time you see the hulking lump of Batflesh you will be controlling. Massive and weighty, it's initially hard to picture this particular caped crusader swinging from the rafters without bringing most of the roof down as well, but once you see him in motion, all of that changes.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 2
Leaderboards, eh? Some nutter at Rocksteady, who presumably fights crime in his own time while not fiddling about with pixel shaders - has completed Silent Knight in under a minute.
Crucially, the animation delivers, smoothly flowing between cycles without a frustrating glitch or much in the way of clipping, and the team has perfectly nailed that distinctive blend of grace and brutality that Batman deals in. Zipping up to a distant ledge on the grapnel gun, he's a blur of black and grey, but in the middle of a fight, surrounded by deranged bouncers, he has a frosty, businesslike calm straight out of the comics, patiently waiting for an enemy to move, before parrying in a flash and retaliating with a series of efficient blows. Meanwhile, his cape is a separate character in its own right, whipping about, stunning enemies into a cowering huddle, and generally making him look like a hardboiled Darth Vader rather than a jumpsuited weirdo in an S&M dressing gown.
It's brawling that the first of the challenge rooms focuses on. Intensive Treatment (both rooms have the kind of punning titles that might make the Dark Knight let out a mirthless chuckle) is essentially a hand-to-hand variation of Gears 2's Horde mode, matching you off against increasingly deadly combinations of bad 'uns and asking you not just to flatten everyone (which is easy) but to flatten them while looking good (which isn't).Controls are refreshingly simple, your main options being stun, attack, and parry, all mapped to face buttons. Lock-on is automatic, and the animation has a habit of fitting itself in contextually, choosing by itself whether to knee-drop someone, or grab their kicking leg and flip them backwards, say, whenever you press a button, which means that, for the first few attempts at least, you might suspect Arkham is playing itself.
It isn't. Like Assassin's Creed, this is a game of crowd management, and while it moves at a faster pace than Ubisoft's title, it's still generally better to wait for an attack and retaliate rather than wade in swinging, with enemy moves announced in advance by a lightning bolt icon above their heads, giving you time to parry, before daring you to see how many powerful counters you can afford before someone else has a pop.
At the heart of the fighting is the combo system, a time-based arrangement requiring you to chain moves together in order to keep your points multiplier rising. When you're playing well, jumping off someone's chest and landing on someone else's head, before backflipping to unteeth the weirdo coming at you out of the shadows, you'll almost hear a drum-beat in your head, telling you exactly when to hammer the buttons. It's strange enough, after years of disappointments, to find a developer that really understands what a Batman game should feel like, but stranger still, perhaps, to realise that what it should feel like is a mixture of elegant brawling and rhythm action.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 3
No sign of Robin! Hooray! Hopefully Bat-Mite's unlockable, though...
The second challenge room, Silent Knight, is a little more thoughtful, showcasing a mode known, worryingly, as Invisible Predator. Happily, rather than an Yvette Fielding Living TV documentary exploring the wacky dangers of kitchen-based bacteria, it's actually another variation on room clearance, focusing on mazelike level design, and exchanging skill points for a timer as leaderboard currency. The agenda is the same, but the emphasis is completely different. You've seen Batman at his most powerful: this is him at his most vulnerable, with heavily-armed enemies turning a simple combat scenario into a stealthy assault course.
As gunfire is so deadly, the game quickly finds a new groove, alternately swooping in for a one-button takedown before zipping back up to safety with the auto-locking grapnel gun, ducking bullets as you try to lose yourself in shadows to plan your next move. Victory is about strategy: as you take goons out, the survivors will get increasingly panicky, and more prone to blindly firing into the darkness, while a press of LB switches you to Detective Mode, a kind of heat vision where you can instantly see where everybody is, what weapons they're carrying, and how freaked out they've become. But the standout element is the gadgets mapped to the d-pad: the batarang can be used to stun enemies or simply create a distraction, while a sonic variation gives you thirty seconds of pulsing sound, the batclaw blasts out on a wire to grab distant attackers and yank them off gantries, and the explosive gel can be sprayed onto the surroundings and detonated at your convenience.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 4
As any Batman fan will know, it's all about the length of the ears. Arkham Asylum is more Brian Bolland than Jim Lee.
They're fun on their own, but far more interesting when you learn to combine them, luring an enemy over to a ledge with a batarang and then clawing them off into space, or embedding the sonic batarang in gel, and taking out five villains at once. With these on your utility belt, Arkham Asylum seems intermittently capable of nailing that same elusive hide-and-seek feel that Riddick possesses, turning stealth into a way to broaden your options as much as narrow them.
So while the challenge rooms offer a very narrow window onto Arkham Asylum, they still leave a promising impression. There are potential problems - the multi-trigger controls needed to use some of the gadgets take a little getting used to, and, elsewhere, the turning speed of the camera is currently stately rather than brisk - but these are small gripes, and relatively early days. As an unlockable, then, this is a lot more interesting than the usual stack of concept art and blurry snaps detailing the developer's last office party; as an indicator of the broader game, however, it shows a promising understanding of the licence, tied to a central realisation that, while any old supersomebody can make you feel heroic, only Batman can make you feel truly dangerous.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is due out for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this year.
But look deeper, and it's not so simple. Batman, above all other superheroes, is defined by a particular mood, a brooding eternal midnight built from shadows, claustrophobic alleyways and Halloween freaks; a world, in a word, of fear. It's not just a case of turning down the lights and breaking a few windows, either: you can't fake Gotham City's stylish urban menace, and you can't fake the sense of dread that Batman engenders in his foes. And if you haven't got dread in your Batman game, chances are you haven't actually got a Batman game.
That's why Arkham Asylum is looking promising. It's got the brooding architecture and famous faces, but it's also fitting out its hero as a man who lets his fearsome reputation do a lot of the work for him: in close combat, he can't be beaten, but when the weapons come out, although he can certainly take a few more machinegun rounds than I could, compared to most videogame characters he's made out of old Kit-Kat wrappers and Marmite. With no magic powers, he has to spook his foes, freaking them out and softening them up before swooping in to finish the job.
This curious mixture - flashes of real power wedged tightly against moments of extreme weakness - seems likely to define the pace of the title, but it's currently hard to tell how well the combination will work in the long term. The developers, Rocksteady Studios, are still not ready to reveal exactly how the story fits together, so for now, we can only get a sense of Arkham Asylum's central mechanics by playing two of the game's challenge rooms.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 1
Detective vision reduces your enemies to skeletons. It's like that Chemical Brothers video, but without the Chemical Brothers. And with Batman.
Challenge rooms are just one flavour of over 250 unlockables Rocksteady's threatening to include in the finished game. Dumping you into a discrete part of Arkham and asking you to complete a task (generally clubbing everybody senseless), they're the Dark Knight's take on arcade games: a chance to break away from the central story, and explore simple joys like score multipliers and leaderboards.
At the very least, they suggest that this is one attractive loony bin, filled with pretty dereliction and inviting shadows, peopled by a range of terrifying freaks who appear to have gone insane after a diet composed of tattoo ink, face paint, and steroids. It's often overstated just how much the Unreal Engine guides the look of a game - Epic's tech was capable of turning out Mirror's Edge's lithe chimney-hoppers as well as Gears' rock-fisted grunts, but there's a certain shock of the familiar the first time you see the hulking lump of Batflesh you will be controlling. Massive and weighty, it's initially hard to picture this particular caped crusader swinging from the rafters without bringing most of the roof down as well, but once you see him in motion, all of that changes.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 2
Leaderboards, eh? Some nutter at Rocksteady, who presumably fights crime in his own time while not fiddling about with pixel shaders - has completed Silent Knight in under a minute.
Crucially, the animation delivers, smoothly flowing between cycles without a frustrating glitch or much in the way of clipping, and the team has perfectly nailed that distinctive blend of grace and brutality that Batman deals in. Zipping up to a distant ledge on the grapnel gun, he's a blur of black and grey, but in the middle of a fight, surrounded by deranged bouncers, he has a frosty, businesslike calm straight out of the comics, patiently waiting for an enemy to move, before parrying in a flash and retaliating with a series of efficient blows. Meanwhile, his cape is a separate character in its own right, whipping about, stunning enemies into a cowering huddle, and generally making him look like a hardboiled Darth Vader rather than a jumpsuited weirdo in an S&M dressing gown.
It's brawling that the first of the challenge rooms focuses on. Intensive Treatment (both rooms have the kind of punning titles that might make the Dark Knight let out a mirthless chuckle) is essentially a hand-to-hand variation of Gears 2's Horde mode, matching you off against increasingly deadly combinations of bad 'uns and asking you not just to flatten everyone (which is easy) but to flatten them while looking good (which isn't).Controls are refreshingly simple, your main options being stun, attack, and parry, all mapped to face buttons. Lock-on is automatic, and the animation has a habit of fitting itself in contextually, choosing by itself whether to knee-drop someone, or grab their kicking leg and flip them backwards, say, whenever you press a button, which means that, for the first few attempts at least, you might suspect Arkham is playing itself.
It isn't. Like Assassin's Creed, this is a game of crowd management, and while it moves at a faster pace than Ubisoft's title, it's still generally better to wait for an attack and retaliate rather than wade in swinging, with enemy moves announced in advance by a lightning bolt icon above their heads, giving you time to parry, before daring you to see how many powerful counters you can afford before someone else has a pop.
At the heart of the fighting is the combo system, a time-based arrangement requiring you to chain moves together in order to keep your points multiplier rising. When you're playing well, jumping off someone's chest and landing on someone else's head, before backflipping to unteeth the weirdo coming at you out of the shadows, you'll almost hear a drum-beat in your head, telling you exactly when to hammer the buttons. It's strange enough, after years of disappointments, to find a developer that really understands what a Batman game should feel like, but stranger still, perhaps, to realise that what it should feel like is a mixture of elegant brawling and rhythm action.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 3
No sign of Robin! Hooray! Hopefully Bat-Mite's unlockable, though...
The second challenge room, Silent Knight, is a little more thoughtful, showcasing a mode known, worryingly, as Invisible Predator. Happily, rather than an Yvette Fielding Living TV documentary exploring the wacky dangers of kitchen-based bacteria, it's actually another variation on room clearance, focusing on mazelike level design, and exchanging skill points for a timer as leaderboard currency. The agenda is the same, but the emphasis is completely different. You've seen Batman at his most powerful: this is him at his most vulnerable, with heavily-armed enemies turning a simple combat scenario into a stealthy assault course.
As gunfire is so deadly, the game quickly finds a new groove, alternately swooping in for a one-button takedown before zipping back up to safety with the auto-locking grapnel gun, ducking bullets as you try to lose yourself in shadows to plan your next move. Victory is about strategy: as you take goons out, the survivors will get increasingly panicky, and more prone to blindly firing into the darkness, while a press of LB switches you to Detective Mode, a kind of heat vision where you can instantly see where everybody is, what weapons they're carrying, and how freaked out they've become. But the standout element is the gadgets mapped to the d-pad: the batarang can be used to stun enemies or simply create a distraction, while a sonic variation gives you thirty seconds of pulsing sound, the batclaw blasts out on a wire to grab distant attackers and yank them off gantries, and the explosive gel can be sprayed onto the surroundings and detonated at your convenience.
'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Screenshot 4
As any Batman fan will know, it's all about the length of the ears. Arkham Asylum is more Brian Bolland than Jim Lee.
They're fun on their own, but far more interesting when you learn to combine them, luring an enemy over to a ledge with a batarang and then clawing them off into space, or embedding the sonic batarang in gel, and taking out five villains at once. With these on your utility belt, Arkham Asylum seems intermittently capable of nailing that same elusive hide-and-seek feel that Riddick possesses, turning stealth into a way to broaden your options as much as narrow them.
So while the challenge rooms offer a very narrow window onto Arkham Asylum, they still leave a promising impression. There are potential problems - the multi-trigger controls needed to use some of the gadgets take a little getting used to, and, elsewhere, the turning speed of the camera is currently stately rather than brisk - but these are small gripes, and relatively early days. As an unlockable, then, this is a lot more interesting than the usual stack of concept art and blurry snaps detailing the developer's last office party; as an indicator of the broader game, however, it shows a promising understanding of the licence, tied to a central realisation that, while any old supersomebody can make you feel heroic, only Batman can make you feel truly dangerous.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is due out for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this year.
Inside the Game
- This game uses the latest Unreal Engine 3 as the gaming engine. For you PC users, this means you will need Shader Model 3.0 or higher.
- There will be 16 Challenge Maps, 8 of which will be Combat, the other 8 will be Invisible Predator. If you get the PS3 version, you will get 8 more exclusive maps, these will be where you play as the Joker. If you preorder the game from GameStop, EB Games, or Game.co.uk, you will get 1 more map which will be the "Dem Bones" Scarecrow Challenge Map.
- The game will be roughly 12 - 15 hours in length.
- There will be free-roaming after things are finished and there will also be no respawning of enemies after you've beaten them. After the game is finished, all power-ups and whatnot will not carry over to a new game (no New Game+).
- The game will support 720p.
- The PC version will be on Steam.
- There is a possibility that the PC version will use SecuROM and will use Games for Windows Live.
- There will be multilingual support on PC, 360, and PS3 (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian). There will also be subtitles on all versions, but it must match the spoken language (English Audio / English Subtitles).
- The PS3 will require about 1.2GB of space to install B:AA. - NEW!
- The 360 will require about 60KB of space to install B:AA. - NEW!
- The Batarang included in the Collector's Edition is made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, a type of plastic. It is the same type of plastic that LEGOs are made out of. - NEW!
- The PC versions will be enhanced for multi-core processors.
The PC system requirements are as follows:
Minimum System Requirements:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3500+
RAM: 1GB for Windows XP 2GB for Windows Vista / Windows 7
GRAPHICS: nVidia 6600 or ATI 1300
SOUND : Microsoft Windows XP/Vista compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c -compatible)
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE: 9GB free disk space
INPUT DEVICES: 100% Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard
Recommended System Requirements:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) or Athlon 64 X2 4600+
RAM: 2GB for Windows XP / 3GB for Windows Vista / Windows 7
GRAPHICS: nVidia 9800GTX or ATI 3870
SOUND : Microsoft Windows XP/Vista compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c -compatible)
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE: 9GB free disk space
INPUT DEVICES: 100% Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard / Xbox 360 Controller for Windows
Features
Preorder Only
-North America-
GameStop - Preorder includes the Scarecrow Challenge Map "Dem-Bones". The map will actually be downloadable content (DLC). (PC/360/PS3)
Amazon.com - Preorder includes 'The Road to Arkham' comic book (PC/360/PS3)
Walmart.com - Preorder includes code for the Armored Batsuit* (PC/360/PS3)
* Armored Batsuit will be unlockable during the normal game by beating the game on any difficulty if you don't preorder at Walmart / Play.com.
-Europe-
Play.com - Preorder includes code for the Armored Batsuit* (PC/360/PS3)
Game.co.uk - Preorder includes the Scarecrow Challenge Map "Dem-Bones". The map will actually be downloadable content (DLC). (PC/360/PS3)
GameStation - Preorder includes 'The Road to Arkham' comic book (PC/360/PS3)
HMV.com - Preorder includes an exclusive sleeve and Joker poster (PC/360/PS3)
Amazon.co.uk - Preorder includes 6 character postcards (PC/360/PS3)
* Armored Batsuit will be unlockable during the normal game by beating the game on any difficulty if you don't preorder at Walmart / Play.com.
Platform Exclusive
(ATTN: As confirmed by Sefton Hill of Rocksteady, the Joker will only be playable on the PS3 and will not be playable on the 360 at anytime in the future. It is a permanent PS3-only exclusive. This is due to an exclusive deal that Sony has for the video game.)
PC
None.
Xbox 360
None.
PS3
Cross-Platform (will be included in all versions of the game, including Collector's Edition)
Collector's Edition Only (both the NA and EU Collector's Editions will be the exact same)
Downloadable Content
-North America-
GameStop - Preorder includes the Scarecrow Challenge Map "Dem-Bones". The map will actually be downloadable content (DLC). (PC/360/PS3)
Amazon.com - Preorder includes 'The Road to Arkham' comic book (PC/360/PS3)
Walmart.com - Preorder includes code for the Armored Batsuit* (PC/360/PS3)
* Armored Batsuit will be unlockable during the normal game by beating the game on any difficulty if you don't preorder at Walmart / Play.com.
-Europe-
Play.com - Preorder includes code for the Armored Batsuit* (PC/360/PS3)
Game.co.uk - Preorder includes the Scarecrow Challenge Map "Dem-Bones". The map will actually be downloadable content (DLC). (PC/360/PS3)
GameStation - Preorder includes 'The Road to Arkham' comic book (PC/360/PS3)
HMV.com - Preorder includes an exclusive sleeve and Joker poster (PC/360/PS3)
Amazon.co.uk - Preorder includes 6 character postcards (PC/360/PS3)
* Armored Batsuit will be unlockable during the normal game by beating the game on any difficulty if you don't preorder at Walmart / Play.com.
Platform Exclusive
(ATTN: As confirmed by Sefton Hill of Rocksteady, the Joker will only be playable on the PS3 and will not be playable on the 360 at anytime in the future. It is a permanent PS3-only exclusive. This is due to an exclusive deal that Sony has for the video game.)
PC
None.
Xbox 360
None.
PS3
- Able to play as The Joker in eight Challenge Map which will be released as downloadable content on August 25th on the PlayStation Network. This DLC will be free.
- There will be a "Batman Arkham Asylum Batcave Outpost Apartment". Apparently, this will be only for PlayStation Home. It will contain items such as the Batsuit, Batmobile, and Batwing, along with various Bat-gadgets. This content on PlayStation Home will be free.
- The comic book "The Road to Arkham" will be given to PSP owners via download on the PlayStation Network. This comic will be free but will most likely NOT be able to be read by your PS3.
- The PlayStation 3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum will use some elements of SIXAXIS Motion Control.
Cross-Platform (will be included in all versions of the game, including Collector's Edition)
- Standard Challenge Maps
- Stealth Challenge Map
- There will be 240 Riddles left by The Riddler that are scattered around the island.
Collector's Edition Only (both the NA and EU Collector's Editions will be the exact same)
- Behind-the-scenes videos featuring interviews with the development team, Paul Dini, scriptwriter for the game, Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman, and more.
- 14" Batarang with stand which matches the Batarang’s in-game design
- Arkham Doctor’s Journal (48 pages of notes on Arkham’s inmates with an embossed leather dust jacket)
- 2 Sleeve Digi-pack, including the game disc and a behind-the-scenes DVD
- Code for downloadable Challenge Map
- Exclusive “Crime Alley” map, available immediately
- Full-color Manual
- Batarang Boxset
Downloadable Content
- It has been confirmed by Sefton Hill of Rocksteady that we will get downloadable content on 360 and on the PS3.
- The exclusive Challenge Maps from the GameStop / Play.co.uk preorder and the Collectors Edition will possibly be up for download 30 days after the release of the video game.
- There will also be downloadable content on the PC as confirmed by jaycw2309, Moderator from Eidos.
Collector's Edition
The European version of the Collector's Edition will not have a leather-bound doctor's journal.
The North American collector’s edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum, co-published by Eidos, Inc. and Warner Bros. features a full array of iconic collector’s items, including:
* 14" Batarang with stand
* Matches the Batarang’s in-game design
* Arkham Doctor’s Journal
v48 pages of notes on Arkham’s inmates
* Embossed leather dust jacket
* 2 Sleeve Digi-pack, including:
* Game disc
* Behind-the-scenes DVD
* Code for downloadable Challenge Map
* Exclusive “Crime Alley” map, available immediately
* Full-color Manual
Based on the core Batman license, in Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Dark Knight takes on his greatest challenge yet when he becomes trapped with all of his most dangerous villains inside the insane asylum of GOTHAM CITY --ARKHAM ASYLUM! Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum – Gotham City's psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Gamers will move in the shadows, instigate fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City's most notorious villains who have taken over the asylum.
All this for the cheap, cheap price of $100.00!
The North American collector’s edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum, co-published by Eidos, Inc. and Warner Bros. features a full array of iconic collector’s items, including:
* 14" Batarang with stand
* Matches the Batarang’s in-game design
* Arkham Doctor’s Journal
v48 pages of notes on Arkham’s inmates
* Embossed leather dust jacket
* 2 Sleeve Digi-pack, including:
* Game disc
* Behind-the-scenes DVD
* Code for downloadable Challenge Map
* Exclusive “Crime Alley” map, available immediately
* Full-color Manual
Based on the core Batman license, in Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Dark Knight takes on his greatest challenge yet when he becomes trapped with all of his most dangerous villains inside the insane asylum of GOTHAM CITY --ARKHAM ASYLUM! Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum – Gotham City's psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Gamers will move in the shadows, instigate fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City's most notorious villains who have taken over the asylum.
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Scans of the CE Doctor's Journal
Apparently there's 48 entries, while this is only 22 of them
** are the ones that you can zoom in on
Front Cover **
Inside cover/credits **
Batman
Great White Shark
Penguin
Mad Hatter
Clayface **
Mr.Zsasz
Joker
Killer Croc
Bane
The Riddler
Poison Ivy **
Scarecrow
Harley Quinn
Calender Man **
Humpty Dumpty **
The Rat Catcher **
Black Mask
Mr.Freeze
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Warden Sharp
Firefly
Harvey Dent
** are the ones that you can zoom in on
Front Cover **
Inside cover/credits **
Batman
Great White Shark
Penguin
Mad Hatter
Clayface **
Mr.Zsasz
Joker
Killer Croc
Bane
The Riddler
Poison Ivy **
Scarecrow
Harley Quinn
Calender Man **
Humpty Dumpty **
The Rat Catcher **
Black Mask
Mr.Freeze
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Warden Sharp
Firefly
Harvey Dent
Voice Cast
Clancy Brown ... Killer Croc (voice)
Brittany Byrnes ... Barbara Gordon / Oracle (voice)
Kevin Conroy ... Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Mark Hamill ... The Joker (voice)
Danny Jacobs ... Victor Zsasz / Frank Boles (voice)
Tom Kane ... Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
David Kaye ... Scarecrow (voice)
Michelle Ruff ... Poison Ivy (voice)
David Sobolov ... Penguin (voice)
Arleen Sorkin ... Harley Quinn (voice)
James Arnold Taylor ... The Riddler (voice)
Kirk Thornton ... Mr. Freeze (voice)
Brittany Byrnes ... Barbara Gordon / Oracle (voice)
Kevin Conroy ... Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Mark Hamill ... The Joker (voice)
Danny Jacobs ... Victor Zsasz / Frank Boles (voice)
Tom Kane ... Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
David Kaye ... Scarecrow (voice)
Michelle Ruff ... Poison Ivy (voice)
David Sobolov ... Penguin (voice)
Arleen Sorkin ... Harley Quinn (voice)
James Arnold Taylor ... The Riddler (voice)
Kirk Thornton ... Mr. Freeze (voice)
SCREENSHOTS
VIDEOS
Check out gameplay videos at GameTrailers
VIRAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Early access to patient interviews - SPOILERS
http://www.gothamcitymunicipal.com/
http://www.arkhamcare.com/
How to access:
http://www.arkhamcare.com/
How to access:
FYI you can't just put the passwords in, you'll need to find them through the sites first before they'll work
quote:
Some weird comments:
"My brother is receiving treatment at Arkham. Their phone lines are down right now. Hope he’s okay. "
"My husband is a guard at Arkham and he never came home this morning. A little under 20 hours until I can submit a missing person’s report. I’ve never been so worried in my life."
*UPDATE JULY 29TH! KILLER CROC DETAILS*
**UPDATE JULY 31TH / AUGUST 1ST MR. ZSASZ PROFILE UNLOCK GUIDE:
**UPDATE AUGUST 8TH**
New email on Dr. Cassidy's account
New camera feed on Dr. Cassidy's account
Dr. Kellerman : Password hint :my hometown.
Unlock guide
Dr.Young Account *Added August 19th
quote:
Some weird comments:
"My brother is receiving treatment at Arkham. Their phone lines are down right now. Hope he’s okay. "
"My husband is a guard at Arkham and he never came home this morning. A little under 20 hours until I can submit a missing person’s report. I’ve never been so worried in my life."
*UPDATE JULY 29TH! KILLER CROC DETAILS*
First, go to this web-site. http://www.gothamcitymunicipal.com/ Notice the breaking news. Follow the link, read and enjoy. Scroll down to comments. A user gives you her email address. Send her an e-mail. Doesn't matter the content.
Now, follow the instructions at the end of the e-mail. Note the picture of a tattoo on the guys arm. Watch the video. Note Boles ID number. 125845712. Go to http://www.arkhamcare.com/ click on employee login at the top. Enter the employee ID. Click forgot password. Remember when I told you to note the tattoo? Circle. From here, change the account info, etc. Now login. You can check the control panel here, and his messages. Nothing too interesting, but you notice a Dr. Westler asks Boles if he could check her desk to see if her cell phone is there. Go to the camera feed of Dr. Westler. Note, a phone. And right next to the phone? The word horowitz.
Logout. Select Dr. Westler's name on the employee list. Enter HOROWITZ here. Now this is where all the meat is. Lots of messages to read, and at the bottom of the Arkham map, a box you can click on like the camera feeds, with a ton of awesome stuff on Croc.
Enjoy.
Now, follow the instructions at the end of the e-mail. Note the picture of a tattoo on the guys arm. Watch the video. Note Boles ID number. 125845712. Go to http://www.arkhamcare.com/ click on employee login at the top. Enter the employee ID. Click forgot password. Remember when I told you to note the tattoo? Circle. From here, change the account info, etc. Now login. You can check the control panel here, and his messages. Nothing too interesting, but you notice a Dr. Westler asks Boles if he could check her desk to see if her cell phone is there. Go to the camera feed of Dr. Westler. Note, a phone. And right next to the phone? The word horowitz.
Logout. Select Dr. Westler's name on the employee list. Enter HOROWITZ here. Now this is where all the meat is. Lots of messages to read, and at the bottom of the Arkham map, a box you can click on like the camera feeds, with a ton of awesome stuff on Croc.
Enjoy.
**UPDATE JULY 31TH / AUGUST 1ST MR. ZSASZ PROFILE UNLOCK GUIDE:
step one
Check Dr. Westler's e-mails, you will have a new e-mail from Dr. Cassidy regarding Zsasz. Read it
step two
Check the video feed in Zsasz's cell and look around for a word on the cell walls. When you find it the word you do find should be "garianne"
(Here's another method: Change the time on your computer to 10:30 pm, and the writing on Zsasz's wall will show up.)
Step three
Log out of Dr. Westler's account and you will find Dr. Cassidy's profile able to be accessed, insert the password "garianne" into in blank
That's it
Check Dr. Westler's e-mails, you will have a new e-mail from Dr. Cassidy regarding Zsasz. Read it
step two
Check the video feed in Zsasz's cell and look around for a word on the cell walls. When you find it the word you do find should be "garianne"
(Here's another method: Change the time on your computer to 10:30 pm, and the writing on Zsasz's wall will show up.)
Step three
Log out of Dr. Westler's account and you will find Dr. Cassidy's profile able to be accessed, insert the password "garianne" into in blank
That's it
**UPDATE AUGUST 8TH**
New email on Dr. Cassidy's account
New camera feed on Dr. Cassidy's account
Password to the Botantical Garden is nightshade.
Dr. Kellerman : Password hint :my hometown.
Unlock guide
Unlock the Botantical Gardens camera feeds,
Here is a dot guide -
You'll notice little red glowing dots on the walls first click on the far left one near the top, secondly on the far left dot again near the big light and in between the leave/branch,thirdly far left dot again (look upwards of the bench), then the one that is down the hallway with the benches,fourthly the dot on the right end of the hallway high up,fifthly the red glowing dot on the right wall in the middle of the wall with all the plants,sixthly the dot located down the stairs on top of the door , now you should be inside a big room with a fountain.Now click the red dot on the left hand side of the statues head and finally, the dot near the stairs (the bottom if the stairs). Now you'll see a clipboard.The numbers are KL1279 Google this, and it should be a flight number, and edinburgh will be the correct password for Dr. Kellerman's account.
Here is a dot guide -
You'll notice little red glowing dots on the walls first click on the far left one near the top, secondly on the far left dot again near the big light and in between the leave/branch,thirdly far left dot again (look upwards of the bench), then the one that is down the hallway with the benches,fourthly the dot on the right end of the hallway high up,fifthly the red glowing dot on the right wall in the middle of the wall with all the plants,sixthly the dot located down the stairs on top of the door , now you should be inside a big room with a fountain.Now click the red dot on the left hand side of the statues head and finally, the dot near the stairs (the bottom if the stairs). Now you'll see a clipboard.The numbers are KL1279 Google this, and it should be a flight number, and edinburgh will be the correct password for Dr. Kellerman's account.
Dr.Young Account *Added August 19th
There was new information added to the Binary Code for Penny Young. It spelled out Titan 13.
We know the password is Dione, but you must verify your system first, because all systems must be verified now.
Doctors all got a new section in their Arkham control panel called File Transfers. Kellerman has one file, talking about Ivy and how she's intoxicated him.
Wendi has posted something on Gotham City Digital. Log in with the old User ID and password. In there, there are two new files: A System Verification program, and notes as to the updates to the new Arkham login program. In those notes, it says people have noticed a bug when holding down mouse keys and/or pressing keys when in the File Transfers section.
We know the password is Dione, but you must verify your system first, because all systems must be verified now.
Doctors all got a new section in their Arkham control panel called File Transfers. Kellerman has one file, talking about Ivy and how she's intoxicated him.
Wendi has posted something on Gotham City Digital. Log in with the old User ID and password. In there, there are two new files: A System Verification program, and notes as to the updates to the new Arkham login program. In those notes, it says people have noticed a bug when holding down mouse keys and/or pressing keys when in the File Transfers section.
Character Motivation
Controlling Batman
Controlling Batman
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And do we really have to continue to propagate that shitty piece of writing that culminated in the goddamn batman/
Intro
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
Ba ya ha ya ah ah ah ah ah ba ba ya ya
ha ah ah ah ah ah ah
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
Ba ya ha ya ah ah ah ah ah ba ba ya ya
ha ah ah ah ah ah ah
Verse 1
There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill.
Chorus 1
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and,
The light that you shine can be seen.
Chorus 2
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
...kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh,
The more I get of you,
Ooh...................
Stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
Inter
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
Ba ya ha ya ah ah ah ah ah ba ba ya ya
ha ah ah ah ah ah ah
Verse 2
There is so much a man can tell you,
..there....................woa...
So much he can say.
there's so much inside.
You remain,
you.......
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.. yeah.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
Chorus 1
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Chorus 2
Baby,
I've...
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
been.............. kissed from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
...ooh...........the..
Stranger it feels, yeah
stranger it feels, ...yeah.
Now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grey,
Bridge
I've been kissed by a rose on the grey,
...I've been.......................I've...
I've been kissed by a rose
...been kissed by a rose on the grey.
I've been kissed by a rose on the grey,
...I've been.......................I've...
...And if I should fall, at all
I've been kissed by a rose
...been kissed by a rose on the grey.
Verse 3
There is so much a man can tell you,
..there....................woa...
So much he can say.
there's so much inside.
You remain
you.......
My power, my pleasure, my pain.
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah (L)
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby.
Chorus 1
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
the light that you shine can be seen.
Chorus 2
Baby,
I've...
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
been.............. kissed from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
...ooh...........the..
Stranger it feels, yeah
stranger it feels.
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
Yes I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
I've..........been kissed from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
...ooh...........the..
Stranger it feels, yeah
stranger it feels. ...yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom
aah-ee-aah...
A light hits the gloom on the grey
aah-ee-aah...
Outro
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
ba da da da ba ba ee ah
Ba ya ya ba ba de ba da da da ah ya ya
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
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God damnt, now I need to replay it again!
I should probably start on the challenge rooms at some point. I guess it's been enough time since I finished up the game. Speaking of, I realized something when the credits were rolling: the soundtrack is awesome. It's got a heroic feel in the vein of the Burton movie/TAS soundtracks, but it's not as overbearing as those. It also has the dark ambiance of the Nolan movie soundtracks, but its theme is more pronounced and identifiable. I dig it.
edit: The controller in the OP lacks a button for huffing out a window while someone is in the middle of a sentence.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Yeah, not good.
I read All Star Batman and Robin yesterday (from whence the goddamn batman reference came from). It was.... very bad.
You missed that?
Good scene too
Harvey Dent #37
Jarvis Tetch ?
Basil Karlo #791
Waylon Jones #211
Oswald C Copplebot ? ?
Arnold Wesker ? ?
Luke Oliver ? ?
So it looks like Clayface was invited to the party.
Only Waylon, Basil and Luke aren't crossed out on the list so the smiley faces may mean that they were present for the party and unhappy faces meant they'd escaped though why Catwoman is in Arkham I dunno, is that where she goes? Dunno who Luke Oliver is.
Poor Eddie, so lame in this version he can't even be invited to help fuck with Batman.
But then Ivy, Bane and Scarecrow aren't on there either. I'm really not sure what the intention of the party was.
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9098/jokerslist.png
I think we can all agree that the "Goddamn Batman" meme is the only good thing to come from ASBR.
Well basically at some point in the early 90s Frank Miller lost his mind and with it his ability to write
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I had no idea you could bypass that.
Bane was Patient X and was there because Dr. Young was using him and his Venom to produce the Titan strain.
Scarecrow? Well, that one is never really explained. There are some mooks who wonder why Joker let him out, but they decided to lock him in the sewers with Croc. It's probably 'all part of the plan' whatever that was. Maybe to release the Fear Toxin into Gotham to further increase the panic and destruction when the titans started their inevitable rampage?
Just how much of Joker's plan involved Batman's continued presence on the island is kind of up in the air.
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I honestly can't remember I've been out of the comics scene for a year or so
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But yeah, I really have no clue.
And I assume Luke Oliver is another contest winner because I've never heard of him/
Nope. Still Miller, still Jim Lee, but no new issues because the comic is "on hiatus".
Which probably means "You don't cancel a Frank Miller comic book. But you also don't publish it."
Open bar's a bad thing, sometimes.
The problem with the theory that the list means or indicates who can be released for the party kind of ignores the scene where Harley is talking to Ivy and is presumably on her way to release Clayface who is in the next room and she doesn't do it.
I don't remember the specific sequence of events, but this is shortly before the fight that leads to Harley's capture, right? If Clayface was necessary for Joker's plan, why didn't Harley let him out? But I think I have my timeline wrong... Still, there should've been plenty of time and oportunity for him to be released if he was meant to.
I saw the partial ?, I just couldn't find the dot to connect it. It bugs me since I play this game in full-on GDB mode, and I'll be damned if I let that goddamn Riddler get the best of me.
I also used the internet to find the last 3 Joker Teeth in the Mansion, but I didn't hold that one against me since A) that's more of a Joker challenge, and with Joker you have to use everything at your disposal, and
In any event, the Riddler challenges have been completed, and now I can post this to celebrate.
Trophy/Achievement Unlocked: Crack the E Nigma
I recommend everyone play that video once you solve all the challenges.
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I too found something new. Climbed high in that cave room before going into the Joker's secret lab, some dead goon drops out of a vent half mutated and Batman contacts Oracle about hurrying the fuck up before they get bigger.
I'm not sure I've seen the electocution one, but I got the body one the first time.
Maybe the new DLC will shead like, if it isn't more challenge rooms
I liked the small part where Joker and Ivy taunt each other over the PA system, too.
But man, in my first playthrough, I completely missed the dialogue where Joker said he shot Ivy up with Titan. I just assumed she went crazy nutso on her own, but things make a little more sense now. I was kind of wondering why she went from just kinda chilling out in the greenhouse to a PMS'ing Mother Nature in the blink of an eye.
A bunch of the villains weren't really working with the Joker, it seems. Ivy was only out because of Harley, Bane was there against his will, and Croc was never even freed in the first place. Which seems weird to me, cause letting Croc loose would lead to the kind of chaos you'd think Joker would enjoy. I'm not sure what the party list was about, either...cause Joker really didn't seem to be making much of an attempt to free and team up with the other inmates. Harley was of course working with him, and Zsasz was at least a little. Scarecrow seemed to be in on it, as far as I can tell. Both him and Joker seemed t have to common goal of driving Batman to the breaking point.
And now that I think about it, during the third hallucination, the four villains that are leading Batman down the hall are Joker, Harley, Zsasz, and Scarecrow. The four that are at least partially working together. Croc, Bane, and Ivy didn't show up in that at all.
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Actually heres the pics and the location of where it is. Man, I need a life...
And does this skeleton look strange?
Probably cause its a bat skeleton!
http://baublestitch.com/images/08-12/x_ray_art.jpg
I thought it was something else at first but alas, no, it's not that.
edit: HOLY SHIT H-RAPE! Should I just link to them or is the fact they're in spoiler tags okay?
Whereas Clayface and Croc were both present, so perhaps they were for a later stage of the plan that didn't come around or they were meant to come to the party and get amped up but Croc got taken out. Still doesn't explain Clayface unless Harley was meant to release him and she got beaten before that. Joker probably didnt want them running free and escaping/eating his minions before his plan came together.
Yeah, the people he actively works with aren't on the list at all. Confusiiiiiiiiiiiing.
You could hear them talking about when you leave the batcave for the first time, trying to decide which is worse: getting eaten by Croc... or telling Joker they couldn't find him.
Basically what I'm saying is, the no shows for the party, we expect in the sequel right?
I just had a small revalation:
If you actually look at the list
I think you're reading too much into a joke.