Batman: Vengeance

You begin by training in the Bat Cave and work out the mysterious details of the game's first set of clues.
The Joker is the first bad guy to appear, and it is he who sets up Batman to start with. its got all the characters here including Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Harley Queen, too.

The game itself is a compilation of arcade-like gameplay styles that relies on a third-person perspective camera angle to show Batman in his basic mode. He can walk, run and jump,as well as use a dozen or so bat gadgets to complement his mad martial arts. I have managed to drive the Batmobile and although I haven`t reached it yet you can fly the Batplane on the later stages.

There are many items and gadgets to collect including Flashbombs, batcuffs, batarangs,remote Electric Charges,batgrapple,nets and the Bat Launcher.

Batman is controlled in two ways, in the third-person perspective that's occasionally altered with cut animated scenes, sort of like in Resident Evil or Onimushi, but also in the first-person mode. The problem I`m finding with this is that you can't get to every one of Batman's moves and gadgets and fight at the same time. In first-person mode they can explore and use gadgets freely, but they can't do things like open doors, or punch and kick. Then in third-person perspective, players can open doors, jump, walk, fight and kick, but they can't freely access all of their weapons.

You will find that in addition to the regular set of moves, they earn special kick-butt automatic Special Moves with look suprisingly similar to the old batman game I have on my Snes.

Batman Vengeance looks exactly like the TV show ( the new cartoon one that is), simple, flat textures with highly stylized backgrounds and character designs.
Gotham city looks quality, complete with red skies, comic book architecture, and tons of style. oh and the usual Blinking lights flittering everywhere!
I reccomend this to anyone who enjoys a good old beat-em-up, its well worth the money so far!

It manages to recreate all those great episodes where Batman tries to jump a gap, but plunges to his death. When Batman leaps across rooftops, wobbles chaotically in the air, plunges to his death. Or that great adventure when Batmans point of view decides to reverse itself and Batman plunges to his death. Or even when he carefully edges along a ledge, takes a step too far and, you guessed it, plunges to his death.

Get the idea? It all looks good, dark and moody like the cartoon series but if the games a pig to play it's not much fun. Even the tutorial is a bit lame, and some of the power ups in the game actually rely on you failing a jump to be found!

Major disappointment.