Batman: Arkham Asylum is amazing, one of the best games I've ever played, I finished the story four times, and every time I finished I never doubted that the experience that the game proportioned me was wholesome. I did all the Riddler challenges as well, can be boring sometimes but it's satisfying, at least for me. Everything in this games is great. Batman is badass, the game respects the character and its mythology, Joker, Bane, Poison Ivy, all of the characters that we know and are in this game, they're all faithful to the source material and they're all perfect.
The voice acting here is amazing as well, one of the best things of the game. Kevin's voice is perfect for Batman, and I think he's better here than in Timm's Justice League and Batman cartoon, where he is great as well, but here, there's something more. Mark Hamill is perfect for Joker, his laugh, his tone, everything, and this version of Joker is one of my favorite, despite the whole desire to kill Batman, one of the best concepts is that Joker and Batman 'complete' themselves, Joker doesn't want to kill Batman because he is too much of a fun and Batman can't kill Joker because of his code. Here in this game, Joker is bored of Batman and want to kill him, but I understand why they did this, is a different media.
And for being a video game, the experience is really immersive, you ARE Batman in the game, you beat all the goons, the fighting system is perfect by the way, you go out there in the Asylum grappling around, have millions of gadgets. And it's impressive that Rocksteady, a small game developer when this game was relesead, did a masterpiece even with the budget they had in hands.
Not exaggerating, but everythign here is perfect: the soundtrack, the voice acting, the fighting system, the stealth parts, Batman being detective, something the majority of the movies doesn't show, Arkham Asylum is amazing, the aesthetics, the characters design, I could go on for a day listing everything that is perfect is this game. The boss battles, how haunting is the Scarecrow and the nightmares. It's just a masterpiece and you SHOULD play it, it's totally worth playing.
The voice acting here is amazing as well, one of the best things of the game. Kevin's voice is perfect for Batman, and I think he's better here than in Timm's Justice League and Batman cartoon, where he is great as well, but here, there's something more. Mark Hamill is perfect for Joker, his laugh, his tone, everything, and this version of Joker is one of my favorite, despite the whole desire to kill Batman, one of the best concepts is that Joker and Batman 'complete' themselves, Joker doesn't want to kill Batman because he is too much of a fun and Batman can't kill Joker because of his code. Here in this game, Joker is bored of Batman and want to kill him, but I understand why they did this, is a different media.
And for being a video game, the experience is really immersive, you ARE Batman in the game, you beat all the goons, the fighting system is perfect by the way, you go out there in the Asylum grappling around, have millions of gadgets. And it's impressive that Rocksteady, a small game developer when this game was relesead, did a masterpiece even with the budget they had in hands.
Not exaggerating, but everythign here is perfect: the soundtrack, the voice acting, the fighting system, the stealth parts, Batman being detective, something the majority of the movies doesn't show, Arkham Asylum is amazing, the aesthetics, the characters design, I could go on for a day listing everything that is perfect is this game. The boss battles, how haunting is the Scarecrow and the nightmares. It's just a masterpiece and you SHOULD play it, it's totally worth playing.