
GameTopius Writes: If I were a third party developer I'd be pissed at Rocksteday -- the developer of Batman: Arkham Asylum -- for raising gamer's expectations. Too many developers have received a free pass based on a faulty assumption that only a few developers can make a game as good as Zelda, Metroid Prime, or Bioshock, and to expect anything more out of the rest would be unfair. Rocksteady has shattered that assumption and anyone else currently making a videogame better take a good, long look at what they have done with Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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