Batman: Arkham Asylum Demo is out
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Anybody else giving it a try? I've already got it reserved, and this just makes me want August 25th to come that much sooner. The combat is satisfying as hell, and its a blast to sneak around freaking out baddies taking them out one at a time.
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Was the starting cutscene pre-rendered? I mean the visuals in general seem to be pushing the engine pretty far, which is nice, but man I was really impressed with the first ctuscene, specially when they go inside Arkham.
This will be a buy for me, day 1!
I´ll have to give the demo a try after work today. Looks awesome.
Fighting is WICKED. I love the cuts to different angles on death blows. I can't wait to unlock new toys and gadgets (assuming this is what XP is for) and see what other new manoeuvrer I can do.
I found 2 Joker trophies, btw!
But I rather prefer steath combat as I am more of a gentleman, takes some time to practice, and you will mostly spend your time with the screen blue at all times(detective vision) but its so fracking satisfactory when you drag a baddie up the ceiling and hang him there screaming then cut his rope(anyone tried that?).
Only crit I may have ist that I dont think Batsy is agile enough, I know he is gianormous, but at least I would want a jump button. Pluss I love that they go back to the real Gotham feeling Batman and not the batman in the new movies. Like the old joker and the old batmobile and the real dark Gothamn.
It comes out August 25th right?
oooh, gonna have to try that when I play through it again.
The visuals are fantastic. Can't wait to really explore the rest of Arkham and look around at all the sights.
As for Batman not being more super agile, I can see why they'd go that route. Maybe they were trying to keep the combat and grappling more realistic and in line with the recent movies, and not have Batman jumping like 10 feet in the air at the press of a button like Kratos or Dante or other characters in 3rd person action titles.
But man, this is one sexy ass game. The gameplay is nothing short of awesome. Can't wait to purchase this baby.
Took some pics too:
Beat it once. ONCE. Never been able to do it again. Not even in my adult life now.
Looks really good, congrats to the polycounters who I know have worked on it, seems you guys have done some impressive work
Awesome quote
Also, do you grapple and swing onto objects other than the same gargoyle over and over?
Small gripes overall, it's a sweet lookin game that I'll definately buy.
the gameplay is definitely fun too(reminds me of the old game for ps2 "the bouncer")
although preferred playing it on the ps3 as it crashed part the way through playing it on my pc
big thanks to rocksteady for this one and the demo
I'll have to upgrade my hardware and enjoy this game proper sometime.
Oh, is the cape done with PhysX on the PC version? So it moves different on the consoles?
PC or console...
I think the cape is pretty much the same, but even the tape blocking stuff moves and breaks, and all the papers on the floor move arround and shit. looks awesome.
and yeah the ps3 version is just as awesome, but the pc version has some extra graphic treats.
Played on PC. Awesome demo, gameplay was everthing I thought it would be. Loved the sneaky aspects especially. Batman is a true badass, I can't wait to play the full game.
I enjoyed it quite a bit, more then I thought I would. The art looks great!
Feels a LOT like bioshock, had there been no water.
Mash the left mouse button... Or while in stealth just crouch and keep doing long drawn out silent takedowns.
The joker was fucking awesome in every aspect, he makes this game.
...Bioshock? You're gonna have to explain that one. I don't see any connection at all.
Awesome job. I might even buy this.
-Buddikaman
Are you serious? It's a freaking demo. From a marketing perspective, there is no better way to turn off a possible customer than to make a demo that is too damn hard. This is a perfect demo; it gives you a fun bit of gameplay that is indicative of what the final game should be.
Really? This feels absolutely NOTHING like Bioshock to me. Not quite sure where you are coming from on this ...