What made this game so good is what they did with the Joker. In the game, we see the joker as he should be; crazy, psychotic, murderous, anarchic, destructive, and even cunning. In short, we see the Joker at his most..."joker-ey". We get to see him really go all out. In Arkham Asylum, we don't really see him at his best because he is confined to an island. Now don't get me wrong, the Joker does the very best with what he has, attempting to create an army of monsters and poison Gotham's water supply, but it it's nothing too crazy. It's not as extravagant and theatrical as we have come to expect from this character. Now in Arkham City, we didn't really see him do much because of his illness. The only thing we really see him do in terms of mass effect is poison only about a hundred people with his blood, which come to think of it is really never resolved in the game, and plan a prison break. That seems very much normal for a villain and the Joker is anything but normal. Now in origins, he is Sooo much better. We see him kill and/or torture both innocent civilians and his own henchman in cruel, circus/clown related ways, we see him blow up buildings, we see him pose as other villains and take over an entire crime operation, and we see him come up with intelligent and creative ways to test the batman. Even the way he looks and sounds feels creepier in a way that I can't voice. We even get to delve a little into the Joker's backstory and psyche, which, other than one line of dialogue in Asylum and the Joker recordings of Asylum and City, isn't brought up in the previous Arkham games. Now while this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the comics really didn't provide a definitive backstory either, it's just really nice to see more development for a character that would carry over into the other Arkham games. Let me put this simply; the Arkham asylum and city Joker was the Jack Nicholson Joker, while the Arkham origins Joker was the Jack Nicholson Joker combined heavily with the Heath Ledger Joker to create the perfect Joker. So while Montreal has had some misfires with Arkham origins, cough cough electrocution cough, it hid a dead-center Bulls-eye with their Joker.
Man batman was ONE of the inspirations for me to join the military (in the DEP, awaiting boot camp) I just love the fact he doesn't back down from any fight just to keep his city safe even though not alot of people like him. Kind of like Vietnam veterans not getting alot of respect for their actions when they come back home. I love the batman!
I'm so very pleased that the voice actor works. He does a good Conroy-ish take on it, younger, fresher, and the voices of Bruce Wayne and Batman are clearly seperable as they were with Conroy. Well done!
How condescending did Alfred sound when he asked Batman what he's going to do about the 8 assassins after his head, If I was Batman I would'a said thanks for the faith ya wrinkly old bastard lol
It was a great game. But it did have a lot of glitches. For example, after I completed the game on Hard, and New game plus, I started I Am The Night, and guess what happened? It always glitches out on the spot after you hack into penguins communications relay. Batman just stands there, you can't move or anything. Then I decided to try it out again from 0% and now the "Special Combo Grapple" doesn't work, even when you unlock it. On all modes it doesn't work. Then I started the 3rd time, and right now nothing has happened.
That's the exact same glitch I encountered, only I got it during New Game Plus. I had to play through the game again on a new save since you can't erase your new game plus data. It pisses me off they never fixed it.
People who say Arkham Origins is better then Arkham Asylum are clearly dullusional and should replay Arkham Asylum again before commenting because this is just bullshit
The gameplay was the same as Arkham city which is better, but the story for Arkham Asylum was the best out of the 3. Arkham Knight will be awesome though
+Hao Luong There's this thing called opinions. Everyone has their own. Opinions are the opposite of facts. You can't prove Asylum is better as a legitimate fact.
"You're not some hardened vigilante!You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger." " I am the reason that criminals breathe easily when the sun rises" The two lines that tell me that this game is gonna be BADASS! When Alfred sasses Bruce and Batman goes Shakespeare you know shit about to go down.
As a fan of the first two games I think this will be the best when it comes to fight sequences and style. Being a younger Batman, he isn't as restrained and is fine with breaking a couple dozen bones in each of the bad guys. That's what justice is in Gotham and I like it. Definitely cant wait to buy it.
I like what I'm seeing, the combat moves in this trailer looks fast and very smooth. I can not wait to see what new gadgets batman will use in this game.
I love how all the character look younger in this. I didn't notice how old the joker, batman, and bane looked in the other two games before watching this.
I love it as to how in this story, Batman still has yet to gain the trust of Gordon, for if one was to think about it it would be too early in Batman's first year to quickly gain his trust. And the idea of Alfred not approving Bruce's idea of becoming a vigilante is quite appropriate, for in the comics, how is it that Alfred can sort of immediately condone to such a thing, so this game would help with those areas of Bruce building his legacy as Batman.
We've all seen the trailers for this and Arkham predecessors and whenever it ends, I'm on my seat clammoring for more, I say we're ready for a Batman full length feature film ... who's with me?!?
To be honest, I have never actually played any of the Arkham games (except for the demos), but I'm still pretty excited. Figure this would be a great introduction to Arkham world for new players.
Looks like we'll get I nice brawl between Batman and Joker! Plus a ton of other awesome big villain brawls- Bane, Deathstroke, Firefly and many more. Hopefully we'll finally get to go one on one with Killer Croc as he's now been confirmed to be in the game. Wish that ScareCrow was included too.
Really looking forward to this game. The previous two where amazing and the idea behind this can only lend itself to lots of epic fights. Let's hope it delivers, let's hope it becomes a classic.
I Love Batman's new Voice! Finally he doesnt sound like an old man like the last two games. New Batsuit is dope too, more realistic and darker. 1st Day Buy.
Scarecrow,two face ,penguin ,catwoman ,mr freeze, hugo strange, ra's algul and hush were are all these guys they cant can't have a batman game without those villans
"8 assassins after your head. What are you going to do"? He's gonna keep that epic music on and put some peoples bones into the witness protection program.
its different in a good way. respect smith, aint easy to pull of a convincing batman he's doing an excellent job. i grew up with conroy and was pissed when they announced the changed but he changed my mind about it
Remember that in Asylum and City he had limited gadgets, so it makes since that there are a few gadgets we see here that just weren't on him during the previous two game. Plus this game isn't going to have ALL the gadgets from City (Freeze tech, disrupter, electrical charge, etc.)
I think i'll wait till Christmas day to play this game, the setting of the game will give the ultimate Christmas feeling... but waiting 2 more months will be tough!!!
I agree with you're comment about Frank Miller to a degree, first, The Dark Knight Returns is not mainstream continuity, never was, it's a different Earth, it's not Earth One, which is where most stories take place, although several writers had to screw up what Earth One was. Anyway it was a very of-it's-time piece and Year One was great too, anything after that was abomination.
Game looks awesome and spectacular , this will certainly be a great game and I have feeling that it will be better than the previous Arkham games though I still loved the previous games.
I love when you totally don't give a crap about a game for the duration of the years-long wait since announcement... then become excited meer days before release. Short wait for me :)
Ben Mattes said a few days ago that the story and side missions are way longer than just 12 hours. It must have just been some quick estimate off of the top of one of the developer's head's, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see
Then you should see the similarities between BB and year one. Heath ledger joker was like Killing joke (the fact he wanted to prove the best of gotham can be corrupted/ multiple origins) and Bane fit knightfall with him being born in prison, working with talia and breaking batman's back. It fits enough imo
Going to have to get used to the new voice of Batman but I'm excited to get to play this tomorrow. I would have liked Bruce Greenwood from Under the Red Hood. He had that balance between harsh and smooth and the ability to deliver both at the same time with just inflections on either side whether he was Batman or Bruce. Same with Peter Weller in TDKR. Never the less, as long as Batman is portrayed as Batman, I'm still going to enjoy myself.
All fair points. But Hulk has the Jekyll & Hyde thing going on. I think the Avengers movie got the horror out of that character pretty perfectly, and it's the claustrophobic dread that makes him different to any other over-powered character.
"You're not some hardened vigilante. You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger!" "i am the reason the criminals breath easeir when the sun rises" best line in the trailer
That squad belongs to a guy named Branden. In the Year One comic, he and Gordon were adversaries. With Branden being so corrupt he would do anything for cash, and Gordon trying to clean up the department.
It's a younger more brutal Batman, he hasn't formulated signature movements yet, this is there's a threat, take it out, not the whole methodical style he has later in life to compensate for his reputation and age. Also the suit is more of an armoured look because he doesn't have the materials and resources at Wayne Enterprises to make the lighter kevlar suit that he has in later years.
It's not very likely, as this takes place in the first years of Batman as a vigilante, even before Gordon is Police Comissioner. Dr. Harleen Quinzel may not have met the Joker yet.
looks great. I wonder if they will make the 8 assassins playable eventually. Maybe a multiplayer that utilizes them including Batman. Would be an awesome battle arena mode taking place in Gotham using stealth and gadgetry.
I think the reason this game didn't do as well as the other two was because wb Montreal didn't polish it as well as they should have. The rocksteady games felt smooth,this one needed major patching,it still was a good batman game,just in my opinion it had too many technical issues that allowed it to be great like the first two.
Easlily the 2nd best of the franchise, this gem is too underrated for all the wrong reasons.
I love this game just as much as the first two!
"I am the reason the criminals breathe easier when the sun rises."
What made this game so good is what they did with the Joker. In the game, we see the joker as he should be; crazy, psychotic, murderous, anarchic, destructive, and even cunning. In short, we see the Joker at his most..."joker-ey". We get to see him really go all out. In Arkham Asylum, we don't really see him at his best because he is confined to an island. Now don't get me wrong, the Joker does the very best with what he has, attempting to create an army of monsters and poison Gotham's water supply, but it it's nothing too crazy. It's not as extravagant and theatrical as we have come to expect from this character. Now in Arkham City, we didn't really see him do much because of his illness. The only thing we really see him do in terms of mass effect is poison only about a hundred people with his blood, which come to think of it is really never resolved in the game, and plan a prison break. That seems very much normal for a villain and the Joker is anything but normal. Now in origins, he is Sooo much better. We see him kill and/or torture both innocent civilians and his own henchman in cruel, circus/clown related ways, we see him blow up buildings, we see him pose as other villains and take over an entire crime operation, and we see him come up with intelligent and creative ways to test the batman. Even the way he looks and sounds feels creepier in a way that I can't voice. We even get to delve a little into the Joker's backstory and psyche, which, other than one line of dialogue in Asylum and the Joker recordings of Asylum and City, isn't brought up in the previous Arkham games. Now while this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the comics really didn't provide a definitive backstory either, it's just really nice to see more development for a character that would carry over into the other Arkham games. Let me put this simply; the Arkham asylum and city Joker was the Jack Nicholson Joker, while the Arkham origins Joker was the Jack Nicholson Joker combined heavily with the Heath Ledger Joker to create the perfect Joker. So while Montreal has had some misfires with Arkham origins, cough cough electrocution cough, it hid a dead-center Bulls-eye with their Joker.
They also gave us the best Bane ever
Man batman was ONE of the inspirations for me to join the military (in the DEP, awaiting boot camp) I just love the fact he doesn't back down from any fight just to keep his city safe even though not alot of people like him. Kind of like Vietnam veterans not getting alot of respect for their actions when they come back home. I love the batman!
I loved this game. Don't understand the hate for it. Rates above Arkham Knight for me
Me too i think it is better than the arkham knight
I thought this game was great considering it was just to keep you occupied until Arkham Knight
***** They should do something for The Killing Joke, Vengeance of Bane, Knightfall, an origin for Scarecrow, Two Face, Ra's Al Ghul and Harley Quinn
8.6 out of 10
Let make it to 9.2 out of 10
Ladies and gentlemen
"YOU NEED A NEW HOBBY!". god i love that new voice! finally somebody who dosent sound like an old man
I'm so very pleased that the voice actor works. He does a good Conroy-ish take on it, younger, fresher, and the voices of Bruce Wayne and Batman are clearly seperable as they were with Conroy. Well done!
"One of the Robins took your last donut. What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to find them... and put an end them."
THis game is a funny one. If it had been the very first I think we'd all declare it an amazing game. The problem is it came after City.
Luv this game
As a huge fan of batman, i cant say how happy i am to know arkham games are succesfull enough to be released every couple of years :)
Good to see someone knows the source material! Arkham games are just candy for us Comic/ Animated Bat fans!
has anyone noticed how batman has only used the grapler once in batman begins he never used it in batman the dark knight or the dark knight rises??
that's because the Nolan movies suck ass. People just take waaay too long to realize that :P
silja lin In Nolan , I trust. So That's your opinion. HIs Trilogy is just about the best damn batman series
Excuse me he used it twice in Batman Begins, he didn't use any gadgets except once against Bane and they were extremely lame/uneffective
He used it in the dark knight building in construction fight scene
How condescending did Alfred sound when he asked Batman what he's going to do about the 8 assassins after his head, If I was Batman I would'a said thanks for the faith ya wrinkly old bastard lol
fucking great game
Eric Holmes you have created a masterpiece. Thank you.
0:19- 0:32 My most favorite part of the trailer! The music & Batman's words just scream AWESOMENESS!
It was a great game. But it did have a lot of glitches. For example, after I completed the game on Hard, and New game plus, I started I Am The Night, and guess what happened? It always glitches out on the spot after you hack into penguins communications relay. Batman just stands there, you can't move or anything. Then I decided to try it out again from 0% and now the "Special Combo Grapple" doesn't work, even when you unlock it. On all modes it doesn't work. Then I started the 3rd time, and right now nothing has happened.
I've encountered a ton of glitches through all my walkthroughs.
There was a glitch where before you take of Bane's men by the swimming pool in the hotel, the audio stops working and you can't use detective mode
That's the exact same glitch I encountered, only I got it during New Game Plus. I had to play through the game again on a new save since you can't erase your new game plus data. It pisses me off they never fixed it.
***** No like the music or sound of Batman wasn't working
So the Jarl of Witherun was transferred and degraded into the police commissioner Gordon? XD
FlashySenap better than ever. he did that because i tried to kill him in skyrim
I presnt to youuu the death of the batmaaan!!
Hell yeah!! This looks so good! Cant wait for next week!
The BEST Fights Written Well and The Most Specular fighting sequences
Am I the only one we thinks Copperhead looks like Miley Cyrus?
No, you don't.
+Apex Predator i said the same thing.
People who say Arkham Origins is better then Arkham Asylum are clearly dullusional and should replay Arkham Asylum again before commenting because this is just bullshit
repect opinions
The gameplay was the same as Arkham city which is better, but the story for Arkham Asylum was the best out of the 3. Arkham Knight will be awesome though
+Hao Luong There's this thing called opinions. Everyone has their own. Opinions are the opposite of facts. You can't prove Asylum is better as a legitimate fact.
FUCKING SPOILER!!!!!!!!!
How?This is an Official Trailer.
"You're not some hardened vigilante!You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger."
" I am the reason that criminals breathe easily when the sun rises"
The two lines that tell me that this game is gonna be BADASS! When Alfred sasses Bruce and Batman goes Shakespeare you know shit about to go down.
That was my favorite franchise of the yr. They were so well done
"GOTHAM'S GONNA BURN!!"
That Firefly fight is gonna be so awesome.
As a fan of the first two games I think this will be the best when it comes to fight sequences and style. Being a younger Batman, he isn't as restrained and is fine with breaking a couple dozen bones in each of the bad guys. That's what justice is in Gotham and I like it. Definitely cant wait to buy it.
I like that you get to unlock different batman skins after completing certain task in the game. it reminds me of the old gaming days days.
WTF... The police officer has Jarl Balgruuf's voice... and he will be ballin.
you have no idea how excited i am for this game and the rest of youtube seems to ignore it it's driving me nuts
I like what I'm seeing, the combat moves in this trailer looks fast and very smooth. I can not wait to see what new gadgets batman will use in this game.
Underrated for sure. He was too awesome to be treated like that.
makes me smile every time
I love how all the character look younger in this. I didn't notice how old the joker, batman, and bane looked in the other two games before watching this.
"You're not some Hardened Vigilante, You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger" - Alfred's Voice of reason...love it
Guys i think this is the best promotion of batman ever each and every batman game get's better and bigger day by day. :)
I love it as to how in this story, Batman still has yet to gain the trust of Gordon, for if one was to think about it it would be too early in Batman's first year to quickly gain his trust. And the idea of Alfred not approving Bruce's idea of becoming a vigilante is quite appropriate, for in the comics, how is it that Alfred can sort of immediately condone to such a thing, so this game would help with those areas of Bruce building his legacy as Batman.
Honestly Batman Has Badass Villains in Comic Book History!!!
We've all seen the trailers for this and Arkham predecessors and whenever it ends, I'm on my seat clammoring for more, I say we're ready for a Batman full length feature film ... who's with me?!?
To be honest, I have never actually played any of the Arkham games (except for the demos), but I'm still pretty excited. Figure this would be a great introduction to Arkham world for new players.
Looks like we'll get I nice brawl between Batman and Joker! Plus a ton of other awesome big villain brawls- Bane, Deathstroke, Firefly and many more. Hopefully we'll finally get to go one on one with Killer Croc as he's now been confirmed to be in the game. Wish that ScareCrow was included too.
"You're not a vigilante. You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger."
Love that line.
Man... this was the best trailer so far
Really looking forward to this game. The previous two where amazing and the idea behind this can only lend itself to lots of epic fights. Let's hope it delivers, let's hope it becomes a classic.
Batman's true origin of how he really became the Dark Knight earning many titles as he progresses through this new era of justice
They did a good job with the Joker and Batman voices, Joker sounds exactly like Mark Hamil and the Batman voice sounds like a young Batman for sure.
Firefly is actually pretty cool. I think it's good that they're including him.
Cooperhead, Firefly, hahaha you're gonna love them !
still the best trailers!!!
I Love Batman's new Voice! Finally he doesnt sound like an old man like the last two games. New Batsuit is dope too, more realistic and darker. 1st Day Buy.
Scarecrow,two face ,penguin ,catwoman ,mr freeze, hugo strange, ra's algul and hush were are all these guys they cant can't have a batman game without those villans
"8 assassins after your head. What are you going to do"? He's gonna keep that epic music on and put some peoples bones into the witness protection program.
This will be the golden standard for Batman games.
Preordered the collectors edition today...cant wait..
its different in a good way. respect smith, aint easy to pull of a convincing batman he's doing an excellent job. i grew up with conroy and was pissed when they announced the changed but he changed my mind about it
Just letting anyone know that isn't aware both games are on sale on steam right now. Both have 75% off - really good deal for two great games.
SOON, WE SHALL BE PLAYING, ON A GLORIOUS WEEKEND.
Thank you could not remember where I heard that voice before
Remember that in Asylum and City he had limited gadgets, so it makes since that there are a few gadgets we see here that just weren't on him during the previous two game. Plus this game isn't going to have ALL the gadgets from City (Freeze tech, disrupter, electrical charge, etc.)
This game will definetly bring peace.
I think i'll wait till Christmas day to play this game, the setting of the game will give the ultimate Christmas feeling... but waiting 2 more months will be tough!!!
why would any one dislike this awesome trailer for an awesome game!
"I'm the reason criminals breath easier when the sun rises"
I agree with you're comment about Frank Miller to a degree, first, The Dark Knight Returns is not mainstream continuity, never was, it's a different Earth, it's not Earth One, which is where most stories take place, although several writers had to screw up what Earth One was. Anyway it was a very of-it's-time piece and Year One was great too, anything after that was abomination.
Game looks awesome and spectacular , this will certainly be a great game and I have feeling that it will be better than the previous Arkham games though I still loved the previous games.
Batman doesnt need powers to be a superhero. He out classes and out smarts some of the most powerful heroes in the DC universe.
I love the whole year one approach, even though it's the second year of batman's crimefighting
This is a prequel to Arkham Asylum. This batman is two years into his career as a superhero.
I think this Arkham game.. is going to be AWSOME !
I love when you totally don't give a crap about a game for the duration of the years-long wait since announcement... then become excited meer days before release.
Short wait for me :)
Final days before game release, time for 5 day batman marathon.
this is years before back when batman and joker are both just starting out
22 more days... This game will bring me peace!
I love Batman's response to it
Ben Mattes said a few days ago that the story and side missions are way longer than just 12 hours. It must have just been some quick estimate off of the top of one of the developer's head's, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see
Then you should see the similarities between BB and year one. Heath ledger joker was like Killing joke (the fact he wanted to prove the best of gotham can be corrupted/ multiple origins) and Bane fit knightfall with him being born in prison, working with talia and breaking batman's back. It fits enough imo
Watching this with Every Day by Pryda on in headphones at once is orgasmic
"You're not some hardened vigilante! You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger!"
Just pre-order yesterday !!! Only 5 more days!!!
Going to have to get used to the new voice of Batman but I'm excited to get to play this tomorrow. I would have liked Bruce Greenwood from Under the Red Hood. He had that balance between harsh and smooth and the ability to deliver both at the same time with just inflections on either side whether he was Batman or Bruce. Same with Peter Weller in TDKR. Never the less, as long as Batman is portrayed as Batman, I'm still going to enjoy myself.
All fair points. But Hulk has the Jekyll & Hyde thing going on. I think the Avengers movie got the horror out of that character pretty perfectly, and it's the claustrophobic dread that makes him different to any other over-powered character.
Holy...! That's epic.
you bet
The new voice actor for Batman is pretty good. :)
Well he did Ezio's voice too.
"You're not some hardened vigilante. You're a young man with a trust fund and too much anger!"
"i am the reason the criminals breath easeir when the sun rises"
best line in the trailer
That squad belongs to a guy named Branden. In the Year One comic, he and Gordon were adversaries. With Branden being so corrupt he would do anything for cash, and Gordon trying to clean up the department.
Thanks for the head up, Batman.
It's a younger more brutal Batman, he hasn't formulated signature movements yet, this is there's a threat, take it out, not the whole methodical style he has later in life to compensate for his reputation and age. Also the suit is more of an armoured look because he doesn't have the materials and resources at Wayne Enterprises to make the lighter kevlar suit that he has in later years.
1:45 Batman: Jim, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
It's not very likely, as this takes place in the first years of Batman as a vigilante, even before Gordon is Police Comissioner. Dr. Harleen Quinzel may not have met the Joker yet.
looks great. I wonder if they will make the 8 assassins playable eventually. Maybe a multiplayer that utilizes them including Batman. Would be an awesome battle arena mode taking place in Gotham using stealth and gadgetry.
sort of works, I think hans zimmers arcade also works, mainly around the transitions.
I have no doubt about it, how much it deserves that i'm not sure.
Oh, wow! I couldn't even tell. This guy is good!
I think the reason this game didn't do as well as the other two was because wb Montreal didn't polish it as well as they should have. The rocksteady games felt smooth,this one needed major patching,it still was a good batman game,just in my opinion it had too many technical issues that allowed it to be great like the first two.
Good job! Excellent. That is Christmas sorted