Trailers: Batman: Arkham City Debut

[Yossarian1507]

Though they still missed with Harley Quinn's costume.

Why? I like it much more than the costume from AA. Also, it looks like now we'll have a proper boss fight with her, which is good. That was seriously annoying, when instead of fighting her I just had to beat thousands of regular goons.

Anyway, looks great, I'll definitely buy it.

Also, what's the name of the song?

 

[ZombieGenesis]

I still don't understand why it doesn't just take place in Gotham.

Either way, it looks pretty good, although if they make the place too big, they'll run into the problem many games have with the sheer number of enemies it'd take to keep things interesting.

I'm pretty sure Arkham City *IS* Gotham...
Isn't it? That was my understanding.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

I'm pretty sure Arkham City *IS* Gotham...
Isn't it? That was my understanding.

Oh, yeah, you're right. That sure is misleading, then.

 

[kouriichi]

Oh joy. Another game to suck the life out of my food budget.....
Ok, so between Aliens: Colonial Marines, TES: Skyrim, Assassin's Creed 3, Metal Gear Rising, and now Batman "Arks Of Ham" City, im going to be broke!

Living off of ramen and vitamin pills......

 

[Zom-B]

As long as there's not a lot of invisible walls boxing you into a small area of the city, this looks really good. And as long as you can enter a decent amount of the buildings. One of my biggest peeves in game is to have these huge, detailed, rich environments yet for some reason the character is unable to open a simple door. I understand why this is, but it's just annoying.

It also looks like the new detective vision might use some sort of pulse effect, rather than a persistent overlay. I think this will be a change for the better.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

I'm pretty sure Arkham City *IS* Gotham...
Isn't it? That was my understanding.

Oh, yeah, you're right. That sure is misleading, then.

What I've read about the game is that Arkham City is a section of Gotham slums that was bought out by the now Mayor Sharp in order to have a place for the overflow of prisoners from Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison. So it's a walled off section of Gotham.

And I am so stoked for this game. I wish October was here already.

And I agree with what someone else said about Two-Face: his voice did sound a bit off from what I remember in the cartoon (if they are using the original voice-actors from the cartoon series like they did for AA)

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

They should make an unlockable costume where you can re-play the game as the Adam West Batman.

 

[4173]

Though they still missed with Harley Quinn's costume.

Why? I like it much more than the costume from AA. Also, it looks like now we'll have a proper boss fight with her, which is good. That was seriously annoying, when instead of fighting her I just had to beat thousands of regular goons.

Anyway, looks great, I'll definitely buy it.

Also, what's the name of the song?

To me, it's a miss because it isn't a Harlequin with a comically over-sized mallet, gritty setting be damned.

 

[mexicola]

/orgasm

Thank you, thank you... *lights a cigarette*

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

That is a sexy trailer.
I noticed when I was done watching it that my fingers had reflexively started reaching for my wallet.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

I didn't actually like Arkham Asylum all that much (don't ask me why, just had something about it that I couldn't place my finger on that just let the experience down for me,) BUT this looks really, really enjoyable.

Kudos to the devs, this is what a sequel should be like, bravo!

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

Though they still missed with Harley Quinn's costume.

Why? I like it much more than the costume from AA. Also, it looks like now we'll have a proper boss fight with her, which is good. That was seriously annoying, when instead of fighting her I just had to beat thousands of regular goons.

Anyway, looks great, I'll definitely buy it.

Also, what's the name of the song?

To me, it's a miss because it isn't a Harlequin with a comically over-sized mallet, gritty setting be damned.

Agreed, everyone else's appearance was kept roughly consistent with their comic counterpart. While I don't hate the two Harley costumes, it feels weird to me that they were overly fetishized. But then, that bothered me about Harley in the comics too.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

squee!! ok what benefits will be for picking up say the PS3 version over PC?

 

[Rough Sausage]

They should make an unlockable costume where you can re-play the game as the Adam West Batman.

That would be too awesome. They could probably get Adam West to do the voice for this unlockable too, which I'd find pretty funny.

 

[ProtoChimp]

I feel like saying that music was innapropriate and should have more of a Hans Zimmer, Dark Knight feel for the sake of principle but that would make me a fucking dick so I just have to admit that that music was awesome. Oh yeah, game looks great too and Harley very fap worthy yeah, but man that music is great.

*hums song*

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Catwoman! Do want. She'll probably be playable in tandem with Bats. One feature I really liked the sound of when first mentioned in a magazine article was points where you'd be given a huge chunk of empty city that a group of armed goons would be released into to hunt you. You would pick them off one by one as they spread out, like the previous one's stealth segments scaled up.

I wonder if the 'it's all a lie' segment is another hint for the subplot they seem to be going with for Joker this time. At the end of the last trailer the guy was coughing his lungs out and Mark Hamill has made it clear this will be the last time he ever voices the Joker (VERY SAD FACE).

 

[Buizel91]

You can so tell this is going to be one of them rare sequels that is better than the original <3

By the way, i am disappointed Two Face isn't voiced by Tommy Lee Jones =\ that would be awesome.

Will be Pre-Ordering and picking this up on release day =D

 

[Monshroud]

OH HELL YES! Now show me some gameplay video! I really hope that the combat is similar to B:AA, as there was a simple elegance to it all.

 

[Baldry]

Okay well that was beautiful and awesome and all that jazz...But I caught a slightly assassins creed vibe, not sure if that's good or bad.

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

I liked the music. Created a different vibe from previous versions of Batman, or even from Arkham Asylum. Hopefully the rest of the rest of the game also helps carve out it's own identity.