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Sunday, Oct 4, 2009

Hey people, after a long long time, its a blog from me (omgomgomg). I've been obsessed with Batman Arkham Asylum since the past few days and to describe it in one word : AWESOME. If you remotely like action/detective/platformers/stealth games, you should NOT miss this.Too lazy to write a full review, but here are my short thoughts on the game...

I play on the PC with maxed settings and the game looks simply awesome. The environments are dark yet colorful and realistic. Too bad we need to spend so much time in detective vision.

The story is the usual I-want-to-take-over-gotham-with-my-ingenious-plan-type but the progression is weaved nicely with the sidequests, the riddler's riddles in particular. Those are fun to figure out. Collecting trophies which are hidden in different locations is fun too. I was more worried about collecting trophies rather than saving the hostages at some points

The combat, according to me, is the best aspect of the game. There is a freeflow combat system which allows you to chain combos together. You can counter, flip-dodge and perform some takedowns without losing the flow, making the dark knight faster and more agile as the combos start to build up. Batman sure knows how to dance. Take a look at this challenge mode challenge to see what I mean...

Did I tell you the combat is awesome?

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Until next time...bye!

Category: Games
Posted by rohver, 11:27am
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Yeah, Batman is awesome. I'm still stuck with the demo, but only temporary, most likely.
Posted Oct 5, 2009 1:21 pm PT
I have been playing challenge mode the past few days. I'm about 50% done with them, but it's pretty darn hard. I find myself messing up the freeflow one way or another. Any tips?
Posted Oct 7, 2009 10:45 pm PT
Hmm I might have to look into it a bit more. I played the demo on the PS3 for a bit, but I dunno just didnt seem that great. But yeh that challenge mode does look pretty sweet
Posted Oct 9, 2009 6:08 pm PT
@cell : well the key is to not look at batman. Always keep checking out the surroundings and see who is about to hit you. Save up combos and use special moves on thugs holding knives/prods since the special moves are unblockable. Sometimes if I'm surrounded, I use a special move to buy myself some time to check out the situation (special move animations are slower than just hitting things here and there). Keep practicing

@ daz: Hey man, nice to see ya, fill me up with news?
Posted Oct 26, 2009 12:01 pm PT
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