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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Impressive!, 17 Jun 2005
By A Customer
I've just finished the game and i have to say this is really great!
It really fits in well with the film, using the same actors voices and the characters look very similiar to their real-life counterparts.As well as Batman, you get to play as Bruce Wayne in training before he becomes batman and also as Bruce in a tuxedo in a level which has the Wayne Manor in flames. Very cool. The driving bits are great fun as well, very Burnout, with extra racing modes being unlocked after you beaten those levels. The main gameplay consists of a mixture of combat and stealth. If Batman comes accross a group of heavily armed enemies, he will end up dyingh if he tries to tackle them directly. you need to use stealth to sneak up on them or even beter use your fear-gadgets or a batarang on your surroundings (e.g throw your batarang at a gas-pipe to burst it), to scare them a bit beforehand, making defeating the enemies easier. The game isn't too difficult (though the combat seems to be a lot tougher in Challenging mode) and took me about 9 or 10 hours to beat in Normal mode. The graphics are simply amazing. The levels graphics are some of the best i've seen and the Batman charcater looks very cool in his bausuit and cape. The game could have had a bit less linear with more ways of solving the situations that you come accross but at least it means you never get stuck for too long. The controls are pretty straight forward, with 2 butons for combat (punch & kick) as well as another button for soing special finishing moves and other buttons for batarang and fear gadgets.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Ok, you guessed it wait till Batman 2, 5 Jul 2005
DAMN YOU! yes, what seemed a promising title, nay a Splinter cell with pointy ears and wings plummits to level "naff" with a "pow splat".
Quickly follow me on a tour of how to kill a damned good game. Ok graphics, not bad, just rushed some minor gripes but on the whole exceptable. Sound, well voiced by the cast, not too bad but like the graphics I got the impression that the compaay knew what they wanted, but due to lack of time could not implement it.
The game feels like one BIG training mission, you know, where you get to grips with the controls, the game tells you what to press, where you can go etc. Thing is I wanted a Splinter cell/Thief experience i.e. Mr Bats starts out side, you have to get in, by the front door, grapple to window, or glide to roof, your choice. What you get is one way and no other way. Weapons can only be use on certain objects, bombs can only be used when thugs have spotted you! etc. When you walk into the room, what you can do is highlighted so you just follow along like an obediant puppy. No tatics, no stalking, no freedom. Come on guys for the second game give us the ability to sit in any rafta we want, if we miss a jump we have cape, we can glide,we can use out bat line to rescue our selves (Spidy 2 style) we don't have to die. And why can't Batsy swim, ok ok do the baty paddle. The car sections are nice, but again, told what to do etc.
Not a bad game, and the best Batman game to date (that's not hard) wait untill it gets cheap and cheerfull,or better still borrow a friends copy!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Batman Begins, 30 Jun 2005
If you are after a game that looks great and sounds great to keep you in the spirit of the new movie and keep you mildly entertained if not challanged, look no further ("and where else would I look?" you may well ask). You take on the role of Batman as laid out in the film, with voices provided my the film's cast, and with this plus a great character mapping...thing (they look just like the actors) you'd be thinking "Well don't that sound peachy?" If this is what you're thinking, hold your horses!While the game's initial beginnigs (ha ha) seem well founded, the execution and finishing touches seem rushed and gone to pot. For example, Batman makes use of a variety of gadgets, such as a grapling guns and camrera scramblers, but when he does so, there is no gadget in his hand. He just points and shoots, and cables shoot out of...his finger tips? This seemed to me to be an obvious tell-tale sign that the game had been rushed to coinside with the film's release, not gonna work in its favour. Another sign of its hurried production is that you have very little choice over where you go and what you do. There is nigh on nill free roaming throughout the game. If you want to progress its one way and one way only. Not only that but the game makes it so obvious what it is you have to do that you almost feel as though you're just along for the ride. Hearing Michael Cane give you advice is great, but its annoying when you know that its just dictating what your next move will be. Attacking enemies suffers from a similar problem. You can drop down on thugs and drag them to the rafters in order to pummel or interogate them, but only where the game says and the game will decide whether to pummel or persuade. This proves frustrating as you don't feel so much like you are the character, more just a conduit from one cut scene to the other. As I mentioned before, grphically the game aint too bad and it caputures the atmosphere well for what's there. On a side note the way Batman glides looks almost identical to the way he glides in Batman: Vengence, just like they copied it all across and changed his suit! That said the graphics are good, however I would have sooner seen worse graphics and more of Gotham to explore. Spiderman 2 may have been yod in many ways, but what it got fundamentally right was that you got to be Spiderman with all of his spider powers at your disposal, in a free-roaming Manhattan. Batman can not so much as fall below a ledge or dip his toe in the water before he plumits to his death (despight being able to glide) or drowns (well he will wear all that rubber...). So with even the graphics holding your hand and forcing you in the very narrow direction that they want you to go, not to mention the game play, what is there about this game that justifies a purchase? Well I suppose the answer is simple: its a movie franchise game, and as such its not too bad. As a game its below avarage, but put it in the context of the other Batman games and other movie games, and its about average/slghtly above average. I'd recomentd that in the Batman frenzy at the moment, if you can't keep going to see the film in the cinema because, I don't know, you have a life or something, rent this out for a few days and get the gist before you decide to buy it.
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