Batman: Arkham Asylam Full Review

cool thanks good review Godling

cool, i understand where you're coming from as a batman fan, but in all reality, giving you all the tools in the beginning, letting you go where ever you want, and making the detective mode harder to the point where you have to do the detective work sounds good to you and me, but to the average average joe, that means there's no developement, nothing to gain by continuing, it is too easy to get lost, which it can get in certain areas, and a lot of people who play video games now a days don't want to be bothered with looking for minuscule clues, like tobacco on the floor, and need it to be handed to them. they had a wide, temperamental crowd to please... gamers, comic book fanboys, and gaming comic book fanboys (that's me) and so with all those bases to cover, I think they did a great job.

also bare in mind that this is the first game in the series, the next one probably will be open world in Gotham... it'd be the smartest thing to do, but they'd have to drop the unreal engine, too large to support huge area's like a whole city, i was thinking the use the uncharted engine (that is one of the best openings to a franchise right there) or the euphoria engine (the grand theft auto one). and inFamous is my game of the year too... lol, screw xbox... halo sucks

uncharted...very good, i highly suggest buying it, and the second one, forget about it, i don't need to buy it to know it's going to be amazing, no stealth, it's more of a indiana jones-esque shooting game, puzzles, free roam (limited, but the second one is completely free from what i've heard...) and of course hot girl sidekick. the game has all of these epic landscapes, it's great. check it out
it came out 07, it should be cheaper by now, idk.

and as for the sucker punch engine, it's ok, but too many repeats of people, and cars. and a bit too much depth in the building. they had to build ledge and stuff you can clasp on too with your fingers, but batman doesn't need parkour and free climing, he has tools for that. that's why i think euphoria is the way to go.

TheAnswer- I guess you'll be able to use something later on that will shoot explosive gel or something so it can blow up from a distance...

Godl1ng- Thanks dude, i'll check that one out! And good point about the people and the cars in InFamous. True, Batman wouldn't need ledges provided they give him bat-claws on his gloves.

TheAnswer- You upgrade your batclaw to pull down walls.

I have to completely disagree about Uncharted. The colors of the environment alone drive me away from that game, plus Drake moves like he's on rails, makes me think of Marcus Fenix in Gears of War. I am an Xbox owner, my best friend is a PS3 owner, and another close friend has both, so I get MUCH experience in playing both, and out of the 3 of us, we all agree that PS3 can't hold a candle to Xbox, and we have gone to great lengths to contrast this amongst us. PS3 does have it's advantages over Xbox, #1 being the BluRay compatibility (a BIG plus). Also, racing games seem to be most stellar on PS3 vs. Xbox, but other than that, Xbox really has PS3 trumped. We even compared releases that crossed both platforms, and we even tried it on Hi-Def televisions vs. standard digital TV with S-video. We really did our homework for it. Our results were so clear that I decided against buying a PS3 to accompany my Xbox, as I was on the fence about going for both platforms. The real difference came down to preference to the exclusive release's of each platform, and that is more a matter of opinion, as I prefer Xbox, my best bud preferred PS3 and the other friend also preferred Xbox(though I think he went that way because he is a freak for that newbie fest called Gears of War)

I know this has nothing to do with BAA, but a comment above made me think about it and I felt like sharing mine and my friends 'independent study'

Halo does indeed suck, we call it 'Gaylo' lol. Gears of War and Halo online multiplayer are some of the biggest noob fest games ever. My daughter could kick ass in Halo, and I get so bored shaming people in Gears I just do chainsaw stalking in it to piss people off. Call of Duty is where it's at for online shooters! I have an MLG invite when CoD: Modern Warfare 2 comes out, so watch out, you MIGHT see me in professional gaming for that game if the clan I'm in can do good enough!

Shaman, yea, I was on the fence for a while over this until the 3 of us actually decided to put it to the test. If you don't like 1st Person shooters, PS3 becomes a much better choice, as Xbox has that genre OWNED no contest. And like I said above, PS3 does have Xbox over the barrel in some aspects. Racing games for some reason are 10x's better on PS3, but I hate racing games lol. I also forgot to mention sporting games, Tiger Woods looks better on PS3, the BluRay compatibility is a big advantage, that reason alone is what almost made me go that way when I had to replace my first Xbox 360.

lol, I liked Forza Motorsprt for the original Xbox, just because it was the most insanely realistic of any racing game ever. The game engine functioned on real mathematical equations and physics... if you slid the car sideways into a wall, then your car was damaged as such, both the body and mechanically, impacts would throw off your allignment, blow a tire, [frick] your gearbox up, and at the end of a race, you had to pay for the damage done to your vehicle, and soooo much more super realistic aspects. I am with you on Castlevania and I too enjoyed Parasite Eve, but to me Final Fantasy is the king of the genre. FF9 is my favorite of them. On Xbox Live, you can download Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which is my favorite one.

Yeah, if you didn't like GT, you'd HATE Forza, cause it blew GT out of the water in realism. Can't tell you how many times I was in the final lap in first place and failed to break properly on the last turn and smashed my front end, throwing my alignment off and possibly blowing a tire or crushing my gear box, or even twisting the drive shaft in 2 lol and losing the race as a result lol, but that is real life and that is what I liked about that game vs. any other racer, and I am not a racing game lover by any means. Forza was so real, you could literally use that game to simulate specs for real life cars.

Godling, Trust me when I say there is a Major difference in games like CoD and others that span both systems. Like I posted above, Me and 2 of my friends literally put this to the test. I don't buy into stupid shit with people just shouting how good they 'think' they're system is. I really wanted to find out, cause I wanted to have both system's, and the results we came up with made me decide to not buy a PS3. You can try to argue all you want about it, but until you go to the length's my friends and I went to, I can't buy your argument. It's not meant to offend you or anything, because I do like PS3... I preferred PS2 over the original Xbox, so I'm not attempting some Xbox-fanboy bias. The friend mentioned above that has both systems also has 3 hi-def tv's in his house, so we could put each system on a hi-def screen at the same time with the same game and play the same levels with the screens side by side. For some games, the differences are small and almost insignificant, but for others, it's outrageous. Wolverine for instance, on PS3 looks like the Xbox version done in pastels, and that is a recurring theme in PS3. I don't know if Sony thinks the colors are sharper of more vibrant, but they actually look almost neon. And saying disliking the color scheme of a game is lame is a pretty shallow defense. If the game isn't visually pleasing, how can you play it? Uncharted felt like I was running through some Candy Land version of a jungle, the colors were so unrealistic and honestly offensive to my eyes, but that's me, my friend who owns both platforms said the same thing as you lol, when I said that about Uncharted. As for the movement, it just seemed he moved to slow and turned a bit too sluggish to me. I like a lightning response when I move the analogue, Uncharted didn't give me that.

You'll get no argument from me on the lameness of Gears of War and 'Gaylo' lol. To me, Gears is the BIGGEST noob-fest in multi-player. If you've played it online much, you know what I'm talking about. I can't even stand to see people play it I hate it so bad. Gear 1 was fun in the campaign and a nice deviation from typical shooter formula, but Gears 2 just plain sucks. My friend who has both platforms plays it in MLG and he is good at it, but to me, that means shit. He is also one of the worst CoD players you'll ever meet. He's the guy with 2 kills and 20 deaths per map in CoD games lol, which only goes farther in proving that CoD games are the king of multi-player, but that is more a matter of opinion lol.

Seriously, my findings on this aren't based on stuff from magazines or hearsay, but on first-hand experience with the purpose of discerning this. Honestly it was closer in a lot of aspects than many would think, but nonetheless, I stand by our results.

Regarding 'red-rings of death': I have 2 friends that own PS3, all the rest own Xbox. Not one person I know has had to replace an Xbox based on this, but my homey who has both had to send his PS3 in for repair about 2 months after buying it. They ended up replacing all of it's inards and giving him an extended warranty for free. And as a PS3 fan, lol, surely you remember the massive programming errors in the initial PS3 release which resulted in a massive recall of over 1 million units. My first Xbox was sold because I was behind on my mortgage one month and had to do something to pull the money from my ass. I sold it, and the guy who bought it still plays it with no problems, and it was an Xbox bought within 2-3 months of the release of the console.

PS. While you can almost guarantee there is no difference between consoles regarding CoD, I can guarantee 100% with 'TheMyth' seal of approval that there is a difference. But if you don't believe me, try my experiment for yourself. I encourage you too. Out of the 3 of us that did this together, it was 2 of us who preferred Xbox. So some of the critiquing just boils down to personal preference. All you need is a buddy or 2, 2 hi-def tv's, a console of each type, and a membership at a rental store lol, and you can conduct it for yourself. Either way, from one gamer to another, Game on homey, if your ever on PS3 network or Xbox Live and see a name that is a derivation of my CBM name, don't be surprised when I send a sniper bullet through your scope ;) hmmm, for some reason I feel like dusting off Fallout 3 now... Have fun!!!

lol, I probably will eventually, when I grudgingly make the step to BluRay. It saddens me cause I spent so much time and money on a DVD collection that was getting very respectable... now they're obsolete lol. When I do I would certainly rather pay the $300-$400 for a PS3 as aopposed to paying a similar amount for a plain ole shitty BluRay player that DOESN'T play games. I'm just not in a hurry to get one as I was before.

Get'em all and have fun is what i say ;)

Myth- But don't BluRay players read regular DVDs??? Cause i like my DVD collection as well and even though i can now play BluRays, i'm not about to buy all the same films on BluRay now.

either way, all consoles are in theory retarded computers (restricted internet surfing capabilities, no key board, , mouse, no ctrl alt delete) . pc is still the optimal gaming platform... and yes, my friend has a 1080p screen as do i, just no console, but you best believe those nudy movies are crystal clear ;) lol jk. not really though... i have a problem.