Post by Dan @ 01:23pm 26/09/11 | 58 Comments
Also revealed today is a new trailer cut from in-game footage, starring the most notorious of Batman villains, The Joker.
With his elaborate schemes and capacity for violence, the Clown Prince of Crime has demonstrated a knack for creating deadly mayhem in Gotham, and now that threat has come to the dangerous streets of Arkham City.Watch the new video embedded below or click here for the HD option.
Batman: Arkham City is due on Australian shelves for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 19th 2011 with the PC version following at a yet-to-be-determined date in November. For more details on the game, read up here for all of our extensive coverage on the game.
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Posted 01:25pm 26/9/11
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Posted 02:18pm 26/9/11
kinda annoys me that i get screwed for no reason with release dates, but i'd rather wait and have it on pc then play on consol
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Posted 10:27pm 26/9/11
whatever you say guy
Posted 11:11pm 26/9/11
I'll be playing it a couple of months earlier on console though, so it balances out
Posted 12:12am 27/9/11
*Raises one eyebrow quizzically* Considering they're releasing the PC version in November, how exactly will you be playing it a couple of months before us.....? Also us PC players will get the pleasure of the finer details which is what I love when dev's show us some love :P.
Posted 12:38am 27/9/11
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Posted 08:20am 27/9/11
phwa
Posted 08:31am 27/9/11
that's some big jumps they're predicting there
while so many games are still being for console and ported to pc, my comment remains :]
once the next gen of consoles come out that will all swing around anyway
Posted 08:32am 27/9/11
Posted 08:42am 27/9/11
Not that I'm anti-PC, I love my PC gaming, but you gotta be realistic about the state of the industry instead of just wishing upon a star.
Yeah, fair call. But it'll still be out at least a month earlier on consoles, and I'm way too impatient to sit there for a month not playing it, I've been waiting for this game for too long already :P I was always planning on getting it on console anyway though, games like this I've always played on consoles, just seems to fit for me. I spend all day sitting in front of a computer for work, so sometimes I like to play my games spread out on the lounge in front of a big tv instead of getting more computer face-time.
Posted 08:52am 27/9/11
i'm same as khel i'm a PC gamer from way back but the majority of s*** is just done better on consoles these days - no matter how much you whinge and complain the console juggernaught is only going to get bigger with all the noob kids these days far more likely to get a console than build a pc for gaming
adapt or get left behind
Posted 08:59am 27/9/11
Will avoid collectors edition due to how lame the original CE was.
Posted 09:30am 27/9/11
HTML5, WebGL, Flash Whatever-Is-Next, and Smart-phones, look to take a sizeable chunk of the gaming market to browsers, from what I've seen. People love these games now, when given a chance, and they're rapidly getting better. Sims on facebook has reached over 60 million players within a few weeks of launching, while still relying on cruddy old standard flash tech, and is immune to piracy. ;) The social and casual elements add a huge boost which pc/console games struggle to match, and these are much easier to get easy or lazy access to. Entertainment value is still pretty high, graphics prove not to be everything in this arena, for example the D&D game, which plays similar to oldschool bioware and interplay games, is proving to be pretty addictive in the same manner as the old ones. We shall seeeee, I guess.
Posted 09:28am 27/9/11
i see you seem to think you're pretty clever because you're including that in your argument
but you know full well we're talking about proper games here - PC VS Console
which the pc is taking a beating
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Posted 09:31am 27/9/11
Posted 09:36am 27/9/11
I'm saying that proper games may well soon be in Browsers. :P
I just mean that it's an indication of where the market may well head, due to the size of the audience there. Some of those games are very playable over longer periods (but often with short gaming sessions, which I'm suddenly finding much easier to reconcile with a lack of much free time), and the tech is improving rapidly.
Posted 09:36am 27/9/11
infact they would most likely own nintendo DS's etc
also beaten by khel
Posted 09:44am 27/9/11
As the tech gets better, I suspect that the divide will decrease. Many gamers I know are having just as much fun in these games as they do triple with A titles, it's not a "lesser" type of game, but is rather a different type of game, essentially large turn based mmos with benefits from interacting with friends. Anyway, it's one possibility of many, but I'm thinking that it's currently looking to be a very possible outcome for games in the next few years. Many people (not all) can probably be tempted away from "better graphics" with easier and more casual access (see consoles over pcs now, or pokemon versus crysis).
Posted 09:46am 27/9/11
Posted 09:51am 27/9/11
The wii and ds were ahead by miles in 2009.
Six times as many people play the sims on facebook within a few weeks of launching, as had bought a ds in 09.
Posted 09:55am 27/9/11
but you'd find most people with them have a console/pc at home for gaming, they don't sit on their couch playing their DS, as well as how hand helds integrate with their console big brothers these days (psp -> ps3) etc
when they are releasing top notch games like battlefield 4 through a browser, i'll believe you
until then you're just not really even considering the facts on hand and basically speaking s***, too much froth at the mouth from a one eyed pc gamer
Posted 09:56am 27/9/11
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Posted 10:02am 27/9/11
Ads make money, but if you get even a few percent spending money (and the rest creating the user experience), it can still far outstrip a semi decent desktop or console title.
Posted 10:02am 27/9/11
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Posted 10:09am 27/9/11
with a PC you could get a different Video card, stick more ram into, raid a couple of SSD, all to limit load time, and give a better feel (and load time) to the game
console,........wait till they, er maybe release a new console, in what, 3 more years?
PC will rock, harder than console,
Posted 10:20am 27/9/11
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Posted 10:21am 27/9/11
My only real complaint was about the voice acting; it's 2011 and everything still feels like two people reading lines in geographically remote locations. There's no proper natural flow in any of the scenes, they all felt stilted.
Posted 10:29am 27/9/11
It's genius! And it's superior in every way to a console assuming you have a decent pc and the arms and legs with which to move it.
Posted 10:42am 27/9/11
froth froth
Posted 11:10am 27/9/11
Yeah I was a huge fan of the animated series as a kid (though somehow entirely forgot until around the second time I watched Begins and it all came flooding back, rewatched 3 seasons for good measure).
I think I can see what you mean about the voice acting, and it's odd that they perhaps got it so wrong in terms of feeling connected, given that they were working with all the same voice actors who have been doing it for years (unless you meant that the cartoon suffers from it as well). I'm struggling to think of a decent game that doesn't suffer from that at least a bit in retrospect, maybe Ridd*** - Escape from Butchers Bay (very similar to batman actually, and very very awesome, definite play for everybody imo - heard they remade it recently too, but haven't checked it out).
Who the hell owns a tv and/or couch? No wonder you guys can't afford umart pcs. :P
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or maybe i could just buy a console... that will stream media too and is cheaper..
FROTTHHH
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