So here's the game that's currently running my life again. I don't know why but this is a game I can't stop playing once I start, the Xbox equivalent of Pringles. But there's a reason to my addiction! What's that you ask?
Mark. Hamill.
Mark's voice acting as the Joker is nothing short of amazing, he's really into the role. It's also nice to see him back doing the Joker after Batman: The Animated Series. He's very, very funny as well. Some of his little quips really come off with Mark's Joker voice that Heath Ledger or Jack Nicholson could never really pull off in their characterizations of the Joker. If Mark was younger, he'd be my first choice as the Joker, no doubt about it.
Well, that's not all that keeps me hooked. This is a very clever game, while it is a pretty standard RPG the puzzles are nice and innovative and some are actually pretty hard. The controls are all pretty standard so there isn't much messin about figuring that out and you can get straight down to it.
The art for Arkham Asylum is brilliant, very good artwork for Batman, with Arkham looking suitably dark and gothic but showing that there is an outside world to the Batman franchise. Little details like the security gates being made by Wayne-tech, or the Wayne tower visible in the Gotham skyline show that a lot of thought went into this with the art direction.
Were I rating this I'd give it a 9/10, because everything is so good (which is very rare for a batman game) but the ending just doesn't quite do it justice in my opinion and falls victim to the flaws which riddle most RPG boss fights, the repetitive nature of it, once you figure out how to hurt them you get it done pretty quickly.
(You might be able to tell from this that I really like Batman)
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