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Top Five Things Arkham Asylum Does Right

GrE writes, "Batman as Detective: Come on, this is the earliest definition of Batman. He's the greatest detective in the world. He doesn't have super powers, so although he's trained to a intensely high degree of physical shape, he needs to be smarter than the dangerous criminals he protects his city from. The gadgets and 'detective mode' play to this strength, and carry it off well throughout the demo. I can't wait to purchase the game to play more..."

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Neco5126037d ago

I don't know, the whole stealth action thing doesn't do much for me.

roblef6037d ago

so, you've never wanted to be THE BATMAN!?!?! Whew. Who ARE you?! ;)

y0haN6037d ago

But does it run and look good on PS3? It's Unreal Engine 3 after all.

callahan096037d ago

It runs & looks amazing on PS3.

UnwanteDreamz6037d ago

The #1 thing they did right IMO was to make both games (360 and PS3) look the same.

No reason we all shouldn't be happy to play this title. Unless steath action is not your cup-o-tea.

phosphor1126037d ago (Edited 6037d ago )

The demo sucked. It was horrible. 1 button combat, 1 button counters, EVERYTHING is context sensitive. Someone said "It makes you feel like Batman" because you can ONLY do what Batman does. Stealth is bad, you are behind someone? You're good, they won't notice you. The inspection mode or what ever basically points at what you need to do.

My brother compared this game to a roller coaster. "It's a guided experience safe for anyone 12 and up." You know what? It is. Not only is it really easy and extremely linear. The only thing holding this game up for me is the story (One of DC's best writers is doing the story) and the graphics. That's it.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the counters were extremely easy to do. You have a good second to counter things. It's extremely easy to do. I mean, I know Onimusha is a completely different game, but that game gives you a split second to make a counter, and it doesnt even tell you WHEN to counter like Arkham does. Freaking giant exclamation point or w/e above their heads, it makes it too easy.

Tony999Montana6037d ago

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I'm not going to disagree, because It's not that you're wrong, it's that you misunderstand the demo. The demo is essentially all tutorial. Hence it's completely linear, the puzzles are simple and the combat is easy. Later in the game combat varies with different enemies and the game gives more options to the player when clearing a room. The demo is a taster, nothing more.

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roblef6037d ago

Seriously geeking out on this one. Not sure why, but these are some of the reasons.

CrAppleton6037d ago

Anything that has Batman in it, has my attention.

foxtheory6037d ago

The demo was INSANELY AWESOME!!! There's no reason why you SHOULDN'T be geeking out about this!!!

roblef6037d ago

There's a new trailer up, called Gadgets, that I really want to see, too.

CrAppleton6037d ago

He really needs to get his own personal Q

Neco5126037d ago

It looks like it is about time that they made a good Batman game. Hopefully they don't blow it.

Haly6037d ago

I'm a bit unsure whether it can live up to the hype, but I still can't resist desperately wanting to play it!

roblef6037d ago

The demo certainly does live up to it.

Mr_Bun6037d ago

I had a blast with the demo too!

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Blizzard Sends Legal Notice to bbno$ Over Diablo-Themed Website

bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.

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Mulletino3d ago

More and more it seems like these gaming companies are at war with their fans.

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Video Game Stocks Plunge on Fears Google's Genie 3 Will Replace Game Engines

When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.

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peppeaccardo20d ago

same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it

z2g20d ago

Duplicate story. Or does Christopher just remove xbox stories that are similar?

Commentby20d ago

Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …

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Next Life is Strange game to be announced on January 20

Square Enix will announce a new title in the Life is Strange series on January 20 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:0 p.m. ET, the company teased.

Yui_Suzumiya36d ago

Life is Strange: Reunion is the title that was recently leaked and it's supposed to have Max and Chloe back together. So they finally doing what should have been done nearly a decade ago.