Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum – Gotham’s psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Move in the shadows, instigate fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City’s most notorious villains who have taken over the asylum.
Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players soaring into Arkham City - five times larger than the game world in Batman: Arkham Asylum - and the new maximum security «home» for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds.
17 comments
schnide
17 Oct 162#1
Asylum's in my top 10 games ever, I think. City's not as great but few things are, and it's still fantastic - Mr. Freeze is one of the best boss battles I've ever played. Heat added.
oUkTuRkEyIII to schnide
17 Oct 161#2
I wasn't really a fan of Asylum. I loved City though.
haritori to schnide
17 Oct 16#10
Agree Asylum was just brilliant..
Geekynerd12
17 Oct 163#3
I much prefer Asylum myself. I like city but I think it was that sense of being trapped in the Asylum that I liked. Knight was good but was lacking. Definitely picking this up.
RiKx to Geekynerd12
17 Oct 16#4
^THIS.
cookie2015
17 Oct 16#5
this will be sub £20 by Christmas
oUkTuRkEyIII to cookie2015
17 Oct 161#6
Most games will be.
rickitmk12
17 Oct 16#7
I absolutely loved Asylum and City. I recently got a PS4 so I'll be ordering Knight very soon. :smiley:
in$anity to rickitmk12
17 Oct 161#8
You'll love it. The graphics on Knight are some of the best I think i've seen on a console.
holmeview4
17 Oct 16#9
this will be dirt cheap come Christmas
darkspace100
18 Oct 161#11
Asylum was brilliant metroidvania style game. Its funny as back then I was dreaming how great an open world Batman game would be but years later I haven't enjoyed any of the open world Batman games while Asylum is still one of my favorite games ever.
ReflexReact
21 Oct 16#12
Never played the original two and REALLY want to on my PS4, however I can't bring myself to spend £27 when I have both the originals on PS3 still sealed!
darkspace100 to ReflexReact
21 Oct 16#13
They will be at least half price if you wait before the end of the year as games don't hold their prices anymore. Its now a mugs game buying at launch and honestly as you already have the superior PS3 versions i'd just play that as this remaster is a fail as it runs and looks worse than the originals while removing the brilliant atmosphere by making them look too sterile and dull.
ReflexReact
21 Oct 16#14
Oh really?! I didn't realise it was a bad remaster! Fair enough I'll have to dust off the PS3 :smiley:
darkspace100
21 Oct 16#15
Yeah really. Warner Bros outsourced the work to some no name company who did a rush job. Also for some reason both games take about 63GB of hard drive space when the PS3 versions only took a few GBs of space.
Looks pretty good to me. Have you actually seen it or just regurgitating the IGN review?
ReflexReact
21 Oct 16#17
Just watched some videos and it looks (for the most part) insanely better. Thanks for your feedback and you're welcome to your own opinion, but I have to disagree this is a cheap remake. They appear to have done loads!
Main concern is the lighting improvements and the impact on the atmosphere. That's a fair concern but having never played this on PS3, I think I'd rather take a 1080p remaster with much better textures over a little atmosphere.
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Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players soaring into Arkham City - five times larger than the game world in Batman: Arkham Asylum - and the new maximum security «home» for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds.
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Heres a comparison of the PS3 vs PS4 version and judge for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00alYJER9pw
Main concern is the lighting improvements and the impact on the atmosphere. That's a fair concern but having never played this on PS3, I think I'd rather take a 1080p remaster with much better textures over a little atmosphere.