Better With Wii U? - Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
This isn’t the game Nintendo deserves, but it’s the one it needs.
Batman: Arkham City
Players: 1 Offline Player
Publisher: Warner Brothers Interactive
Genres: Action, Adventure
Publisher: Warner Brothers Interactive
Genres: Action, Adventure
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
MSRP: $59.99
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
MSRP: $59.99
Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players soaring into Arkham City, the new maximum security “home” for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds.
Arkham City: Robin DLC Details And Video
Posted By Micah C. about 1 year, 5 months ago
Time to kick some butt as the Boy Wonder
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever had a favorite Robin in the Batman mythos. I have a least favorite in Damian Wayne, but the other three were interesting characters, and continue to be interesting. With that said, the trend continues in Batman: Arkham City. The Robin DLC is finally out for those who didn’t pre-order the game through Best Buy or didn’t buy a code from someone who hocked it on Ebay. Though he plays similar to Batman in the stealth missions, Robin’s play style is still pretty intriguing, not to mention it was pretty cool that he beat up some ninjas in the single-player. At the same time, I don’t want to ramble on, because I have some video for you guys. So, enjoy!
Side note: I really hope the next Batman game (which I predict will be called Batman: No Man’s Land) is even bigger and lets us play as multiple characters from the Batman family.
The Dork Knight Himself
-Micah C.
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Batman Arkham City: Harley's Revenge Review
With the fate of Harley Quinn left up in the air at the end of Arkham City, this DLC has got fans excited to find out more. If you haven’t found the Easter Egg in the Joker’s office and don’t wish for spoilers from the original campaign, do not read this review and get away from the internet!
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Arkham City DX11 Patched, Kind Of
In the dark night, the dark knight got light effects to run tight in spite of slight setbacks to OSes of lower bytes. Will this affect you? It might. How trite.
Batman: Arkham City DX11 Issues Being Addressed
Excited PC players cranked their DX11 settings up this week to look at Arkham City in all its dark knight glory, only to discover the in-game camera to suffer from a condition that induced small seizures every few seconds. Rocksteady has acknowledged the problem, and is on the case! *theme song*
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I can’t believe that Robin was actually Harley Quinn the WHOLE TIME! All this and the ACTUAL plot twists in our Arkham City Long Haul conclusion!
Arkham City: Nightwing DLC Details and Gameplay
Once he was an acrobat, then a sidekick, and then he became his own man. Now, you can play as him in Batman: Arkham City.
New Trailer for Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC Highlights the Dynamic Duo
The final piece of DLC for Batman: Arkham City is only a few weeks away from release and now a new trailer has been released for players to enjoy.
Harley Quinn's Revenge Announced as New Story Driven Batman: Arkham City DLC
One final mission awaits the Dynamic Duo in Arkham City and BT has all the details you need to know.
Arkham City DX11 Patched, Kind Of
In the dark night, the dark knight got light effects to run tight in spite of slight setbacks to OSes of lower bytes. Will this affect you? It might. How trite.
Batman: Arkham City DX11 Issues Being Addressed
Excited PC players cranked their DX11 settings up this week to look at Arkham City in all its dark knight glory, only to discover the in-game camera to suffer from a condition that induced small seizures every few seconds. Rocksteady has acknowledged the problem, and is on the case! *theme song*
Arkham City: Robin DLC Details And Video
The Robin DLC is finally out for those who didn’t pre-order the game through Best Buy or didn’t buy a code from someone who hocked it on Ebay.
Arkham City PC Delayed
In surely the best year for games we’ve seen in a long time, the increasingly common trend of PC version delays rears its unpleasantly ubiquitous head. Arkham City now also delayed, but not for much longer.
Arkham City Conclusion is AWESOME!
I can’t believe that Robin was actually Harley Quinn the WHOLE TIME! All this and the ACTUAL plot twists in our Arkham City Long Haul conclusion!
Arkham City: Nightwing DLC Details and Gameplay
Once he was an acrobat, then a sidekick, and then he became his own man. Now, you can play as him in Batman: Arkham City.
Batman: Arkham City Angry Review
Batman encounters a mysterious new villain as Angry Joe reviews Arkham City. Can Rocksteady and the Dark Knight live up to all the hype in this highly anticipated sequel? And just who is this new villain’s true identity? Find out!
Batman: Arkham City Review
With expectations now sky high, Arkham City doesn’t have the luxury of flying under the radar. This only makes what Rocksteady has created that much more impressive.
Better With Wii U? – Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
Posted By Austin Yorski about 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Better With Wii U? – Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
Better with Wii U?
The Wii U is launching with roughly half a billion games. You don’t have the time to read that many full reviews (and we can’t write that many), so instead we’ll be bringing you a series of mini-reviews entitled “Better With Wii U?” We’ll still be publishing full write-ups for brand new titles, but these pieces will let you know the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of every port/re-release for Nintendo’s newest console.
HOW WAS THE ORIGINAL?
“I can confidently say that if you can only afford a few games this season, Batman: Arkham City absolutely has to be one of them. The fantastic story, robust amount of content, and fun factor all mesh together to make, without question, one of the finest games of the year.”- Taylor H.
We loved Arkham City here at Blistered Thumbs. Our official write-up and all three video reviews were highly positive, and the game made the “Best of 2011″ list for many a site writer. The only complaints any of our producers had with the experience were some niggling control issues and some texture pop-in. Even in a year that saw the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Portal 2, Batman held his own.
We scored the game 9 out of 10 with a “Buy it Now!” recommendation. Read the full review right here.
WHAT’S NEW WITH WII U?
The titular armor refers to the new suit worn by Bruce Wayne as he stalks about the open world assaulting thugs and villains alike. As you could probably guess from the header image, the suit’s main feature is adding electricity to punch attacks. This manifests within the game as a meter that charges up while you fight. Once you’ve filled the meter, tapping the associated icon on the GamePad allows you to begin your electro beatdown.
In addition, every gadget and mini-game has been altered in order to utilize the Wii U’s fancy new controller. This means that you’ll be tapping the screen to navigate menus, maneuvering the GamePad to scan for clues, and tilting it in order to aim Batarangs. The controller screen can also be used as your map while you play the game on the television, or you can just play the whole game on the GamePad while someone else watches regular programming on the big screen.
Armored Edition also includes all previously released downloadable game content for Arkham City, including the somewhat controversial Catwoman Pack.
WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US?
GamePad integration is a mixed bag. The overall effect on the game is minor, as the Battle Armored Tech gimmick is all but standard in third-person action titles. I don’t see DmC: Devil May Cry getting a Wii U port entitled Devil Trigger Edition. However, the addition doesn’t interfere with the quality of the original release.
The same cannot be said for some of the other new features. On one hand, using the GamePad to plant explosive gel is fine, but when it asks you to swipe, poke, and tilt every few minutes the experience stops being novel and starts becoming annoying. It is natural for launch titles to feel like tech demos, but when such features are shoe-horned into a game that was awesome to begin with, it becomes all the more egregious. With that said, you can disable some of the motion controls from the options menu if you are so inclined, although much of the functionality is irrevocably intertwined with the game in this version.
On the bright side, there are inspired instances in which new features pull their own weight. For example, the ability to search environments while in Detective Mode with the GamePad is probably the most smoothly integrated augment reality yet seen in a mainstream title. It probably helps that the conceit of the controller as part of Batman’s suit interface is relatively believable. Also, Alfred’s voice comes from the controller! That’s pretty awesome.
WHO SHOULD BUY IT? WHY?
If you’ve already beaten Batman: Arkham City then you can safely skip Armored Edition. Some of the GamePad features are cool the first time, but the experience is not improved enough to justify the purchase. In addition, the PC version appears to be superior in just about every technical metric, including textures, load times, and frame rate. Also, the B.A.T. for which the game is named is laughably irrelevant.
However, if you’re a Nintendo fan who missed Rocksteady’s magnum opus the first time, then you should definitely buy a copy. The included DLC is more than enough to make up for the occasional gimmicky misstep, and the rest of the experience holds up remarkably well. Even if this isn’t the definitive version of the game, it is still a port of arguably the best superhero video game of all time.
A copy of the game was provided by the publisher for review purposes and played for about 8 hours. The title was previously completed by the reviewer on the PC.
Sage Reviews - Batman: Arkham City
Wow...just wow. Batman: Arkham City Video Review - ZGR
ZGR Daniel gives you the scoop on Batman: Arkham City! ZGR - Video Review Batman: Arkham City Angry Review
Batman encounters a mysterious new villain as Angry Joe reviews Arkham City. Can Rocksteady and the Dark Knight live up to all the hype in this highly anticipated sequel? And just who is this new villain's true identity? Find out! Batman: Arkham City Review
With expectations now sky high, Arkham City doesn't have the luxury of flying under the radar. This only makes what Rocksteady has created that much more impressive. Batman Arkham City: Harley's Revenge Review
With the fate of Harley Quinn left up in the air at the end of Arkham City, this DLC has got fans excited to find out more. If you haven't found the Easter Egg in the Joker's office and don't wish for spoilers from the original campaign, do not read this review and get away from the internet!-
November 20, 2012 at 06:20pm
I told you, Skitch!
While a lot of developers had learned long ago that the touch screen is used best when used minimally, those were all portable developers. Most American companies don’t work on portables at all, except for phones (and most of them still try to make the touchscreen be used like a regular controller, much to everyone’s chagrin). They were bound to do this stupid crap since they never dealt with it in the first place.
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November 19, 2012 at 08:54pm
I sorta expected that this game would be the example to point to for how to use the Pad well and horribly wrong at the same time. I just hope that the gimmick of making you swipe and slap at the controller screen for tedious stuff is used infrequently in future games.
Also guiding that Baterang gave me horrible flashbacks of Heavenly Sword’s sniper sections. Admittedly, I’m sure Rocksteady is a far, far more competent developer than Ninja Theory. Hell 5 chimps taped to an Apple II would be a better developer than Ninja Theory.
Arkham City Conclusion is AWESOME!
I can’t believe that Robin was actually Harley Quinn the WHOLE TIME! All this and the ACTUAL plot twists in our Arkham City Long Haul conclusion!
Batman: Arkham City Angry Review
Batman encounters a mysterious new villain as Angry Joe reviews Arkham City. Can Rocksteady and the Dark Knight live up to all the hype in this highly anticipated sequel? And just who is this new villain’s true identity? Find out!
Batman: Arkham City Video Review - ZGR
ZGR Daniel gives you the scoop on Batman: Arkham City! ZGR – Video Review
Batman: Arkham City Long Haul!
What is longer than this cosplay-through? The ICE AGE! Why not CHILL with these COOL bats with some Arkham City… FREEZE PUN!
Better With Wii U? - Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
This isn’t the game Nintendo deserves, but it’s the one it needs.
Check Out Arkham City's Boy Wonder
Dick Grayson’s out and Tim Drake’s in. Looks like Robin won’t be laying any eggs today.
Where’s the Bat-nipples?
Robin is the best character to play for those combat challenge maps. He’s faster then Batman and stronger then Catwoman, I’ve routinely ground knock out-ed thugs and managed to counter attacking thugs while they were halfway through their animation. Do that with Bats, or god help you Nightwing, and your combo is fucked. Robin goes through these dudes like a knife through hot butter, but damned if his gadgets aren’t useless as crap (though I tend to never use gadgets during combat anyway)
Okay. That ending at 2:40? The best.
Some constructive criticism here:
No word on the pricing in the text? What exactly is the content of the DLC? You couldve easily given all the important info in the text summary as well, for the few people that don’t necessarily want to watch the video for whatever reason.
However the video itself is nice and provides all the information plus some gameplay footage.
I myself will have to wait and see if I’ll get the DLC. First off, I’m still waiting for the PC release of the game and I’m also not sure how they will translate the 7 USD into Euros. If it’s cheap enough, I might get it but seeing as I only spend about 20 minutes doing challenge missions in Arkham Asylum GOTY, I probably won’t be to excited for those even though it gets me the chance to play Robin.
Both Nightwing and Robin are already available at the GFWL Marketplace for 6,75 € each.
Robin comes with two new challenge maps (Black Mask’s Hideout (Predator) and Freight Train (Combat), which is a sidescrolling Beat em’ Up stage) and two alternate costumes: Animated Robin and Tim Drake’s new persona Red Robin.
And btw: Black Mask IS featured in Black Mask’s Hideout, but only in the campaign version.