DC is in a unique position in that they can take the name “Batman” and plaster it on anything to sell it. The worst example of this being the recently released animated film “Batman: Assault on Arkham” where the caped crusader is a secondary character in a film that has his name in the title.…
When it comes to movie tie-in games, the Dark Knight has a pretty great track record. Discounting Acclaim’s work on Batman Forever and Batman and Robin (though admittedly I have yet to get my hands on the pricey Batman Forever the arcade game) both Batman: The Video Game from Sunsoft and Batman Returns from Konami…
With Batman: Vengeance, Ubisoft tried to mold too many genres into one game; It was part plat-former, part fighter, a first-person shooter at points, as well as a driving and flying game. For the follow-up in 2003, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Ubisoft took a far more basic approach to the design and the finished…
As you may or may not recall from my review of Batman: Return of the Joker on the NES, I liked it quite a bit. It was a complete package of great controls, graphics, and music that made it a little slice of classic NES heaven. Reason stood to believe then that a version of…
Ubisoft had a lot to make up for with their debut Batman game on the 6th generation of consoles: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, a game they picked up the tab from Kemco didn’t do the publisher any favors, nor did their PSOne Batmobile game Gotham City Racer. The new generation brought with it…
Konami was one of the many companies who started making Batman games once Sunsoft abandoned the license. After starting out with a game based on the Batman Returns film, they turned their attention towards making games inspired by the 90’s Batman animated series. Their last outing, The Adventures of Batman and Robin on the SNES,…
I never know what to expect when I get my hands on a Game Boy Advance version of a game that’s designed for a console. Sometimes you get a hidden gem, like X2: Wolverine’s Revenge, other times you get a complete dud, like Superman Returns. Batman: Vengeance doesn’t surpass its big brother on consoles, but…
This game. I’ve been waiting a llllloooonnng time to get my hands on this game. I remember seeing ads with screenshots in them for this game in issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly around the time it was coming out. I desperately wanted to play it and checked my local video store and gas stations to…
Yesterday marked one of the most important dates for super heroes in cinematic history: It was the 25th anniversary of the cinematic debut of Tim Burton’s Batman. That film was one of the progenitor super hero films, along with Richard Donner’s Superman, and it showed the world that The Dark Knight could be more than just a…
Taking something that you think wouldn’t fit into the racing genre and making it work is not something uncommon in the video game world: Last month saw the launch of the 8th iteration of the Mario Kart franchise on the Wii U and has helped greatly in bolstering the sales of the struggling console; Diddy…
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