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Batman: Arkham City
By: Chip Date: June 25, 2011, 1:52 am
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Hugo Strange Trailer
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Catwoman Trailer
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Mr. Freeze Trailer
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Batman: Arkham City Launch Trailer
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Robin Bundle Pack Trailer
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Batman Skins Pack DLC Trailer
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Comic Con
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Gameplay
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: Chip Date: June 25, 2011, 8:46 pm
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Playing Arkham Asylum and realizing that the Scarecrow Levels
have been the best in my eyes and just look super cool on top of
that, I sure hope to see a few similar type of Levels in Arkham
City with that old-school, sideways game play.
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 24, 2011, 11:41 am
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Well, I finally got to try out the Demo for Arkham City
yesterday at the San Diego Comic Con. What can I say? This game
is fucking awesome!!! Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick! The demo itself
contained not One but Two working levels. The first Demo is
something that everyone has already seen by way of footage
released from E3 2011. It's the level that introduces Two-Face
and Catwoman. But what you don't see in the videos is that it's
much much longer. Time wise, I think it took 15-20 minutes to
complete. The flying aspect of this level is pretty damn
impressive and very additive.
The Cryptographic Sequencer Gadget is different this time
around. It's has elements of the old one but is different in
execution. Also, pretty cool detective mode play action in this
level where you have to analyze a gunshot fired from a Sniper
from an adjacent building that was trying to take out Catwoman.
Once you discover it's trajectory, that's when you advance the
2nd half of this Two-Face/Catwoman level.
The other Demo Level is what I would call The Riddler Maze. This
isn't the exact name of it. But since I forget to mentally take
note of it's name, I am going with Riddler Maze as it best
defines what it is. For this level, Bats has to make his way
through a path, while avoiding the shock floors and spinning
"wheel blades" as he must duck and jump over ledges, etc... Here
you have to use the remote Batarang to get to veeeery hard to
reach spots to knock out electrical boxes to turn off sections
of the maze. I am talking about having to use the remote to
guide the batarang under and over objects that are blocking your
path. This isn't a direct line of sight toss here.
One of the coolest things I discovered during this level, even
though I already heard about it through one of the Developer's
Diaries, was that of the Zip-Line. When Bats uses the Zip-Line
from Point A to Point B, you as the player and slow down Bats
and turn left or right and look for a new spot and shoot another
Zip-Line and change your direction mid flight. Think along the
lines of Bats doing his version of Spider-Man and you get the
idea here. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cool. This level took about
15 minutes or so.
This was by far the longest Demo I've ever played. One thing I
didn't like about the Demo is that during Detective Mode during
the Catwoman Demo is that when you are out in the City, the
skyline and buildings look really bad. Some sort of clipping.
I'm sure this is just a bug that will get tweaked before the
games release.
Other than that, THIS is the game to beat this year. The cut
scenes are fucking awesome! And this time, when you talk to
guards, they don't look stiff as a block of ice as they do in
Arkham Asylum. The facial animation looks gooooood. The whole
game is sick!
I asked the floor person in charge of the game as many questions
as I could think of. I asked about how many more gadgets Bats
will have this game. He ALMOST let it slip the the exact number
but then caught himself in the nick of time. All he would say is
that it's a lot more. I asked about Robin as a player character
and if Best Buy was the only way to get it. He said that for the
time being, Best Buy has the exclusive, but that once that
exclusive agreement expires, Robin will be available as a DLC.
His words, not mine.
Downside to playing this Demo.....
The wait time for this game is gonna be even longer because I
got a taste of the good stuff and I have nothing to play now
that can measure up to it. Bah!!!
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 24, 2011, 12:24 pm
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Oh, I forgot to mention in last post, I asked the Floor person
if the Catwoman Level was what opens the full game. He said this
level doesn't come about until about 15 minutes into the game.
His words, not mine. It could change. Who knows.
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 24, 2011, 12:24 pm
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Bah! I keep remembering stuff after the fact....
They also had the display for the Collector's Edition and it
looks nice. The statue that comes with it is fucking kick-ass!
But, I'm still not gonna shell out $100 for it. Also in the
display was the Xbox Controller Batman Arkham City Edition that
is slightly shaped like Batarang. Not sure if this will be on
sale or if this was just a cool promotional piece. If they do
sell this, I am definitely getting it.
The core gameplay is pretty much the same throughout the 2
levels of play. There are a couple of new moves like take the
baseball bat and using it against your opponents. I pulled this
off a couple of times, but I honestly don't know how I did it.
I'm fucking awesome is what it is!!!!!!!!! ;D
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 24, 2011, 12:25 pm
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Also have to mention that in the Catwoman Level, you get to use
the Silent Takedown with 2 Goons in front of you. You can take
them out one at a time (but this will alert the other Goon to
him) or you can take them both out with double tap of the Y
Button to slam their heads together. Awesome moment!! I was
giddy. ;D
Last bit of info...for the time being anyway. They gave me a
free Batman Arkham City T-Shirt with Bats and Catwoman on it,
and a free Comic Book (Part 1 of 12) for the series centering on
the game, just for playing the game. Nice. :) The artwork is
really good too. It doesn't suck. Not some cheap knock-off
promotional piece either.
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 24, 2011, 11:55 pm
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The Green one is the XBox Controller while the Red one is for
PS3. Not sure what the deal is with the cord attached to the
XBox Controller though. FYI, the one on display at Comic Con was
all white with Grey Trims. It was in the same display with the
Collector's Edition, so thematically they all looked to be part
of a set, even though the Controller was in it's own case inside
of the larger display.
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 27, 2011, 8:21 pm
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Added 2011 Arkham City Panel
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: July 27, 2011, 8:43 pm
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2011 Arkham City Panel
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[quote]
Kevin Conroy: Why am I driving toward the LA Riots?
Stana Katic: You're Batman!!!!
Crowd goes apeshit. ;D
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Re: Batman: Arkham City
By: ChipRawks Date: August 5, 2011, 1:00 pm
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HTML http://www.trueachievements.com/n4799/arkham-city-preorder-skins-collection.htm]Arkham<br
/>City Pre-Order Skins Collection[/URL]
This looks sick and I have a feeling that the Skins are only
going to increase from the initial offering.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! :)
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