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Dec. 8th, 2009 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherSo, I mentioned a while ago that I was quite looking forward to Batman: Arkham Asylum. And I bought it, and then, being me, took quite a while to get around to actually installing it.
So now that I've started playing it, do I like it? Ohhhh, yeah.
One thing I like is that the game provides a variety of ways for Batman to tackle the bad guys, apart from running up to them and punching them inna face. (Which, let's face it, is not such a hot idea when they have machine guns.) There's batarangs. There's swooping down from above, using his cape as a glider. There's sneaking up behind them and silently picking them off one-by-one. And - my favourite - there's a move called the "inverse take-down", which begins with Batman perched on a ledge watching a mook walk past below, and ends with the unconscious mook dangling by his feet from the ledge. That never gets old.
One moment that really struck me when it happened -- but first, background: The game involves a certain amount of crawling around in the air ducts, and generally when Batman wants to get out through an opening that's covered by a ventilation grille, he gives the grille a kick and it goes clattering off across the room. This had already happened several times during my game when I got to a point where Batman was in an air duct looking out into a room being patrolled by a bunch of bad guys with guns. I figured they wouldn't have been written stupid enough to ignore a clattering ventilation grille, so I readied myself for action before I hit the "open the door" key.
Batman very gently worked the grille loose, and carefully, silently, placed it to one side.
It's happened a few more times since then, and I've got used to the idea that Batman's capable of adapting his actions to the circumstances, but it really got me that first time.
So now that I've started playing it, do I like it? Ohhhh, yeah.
One thing I like is that the game provides a variety of ways for Batman to tackle the bad guys, apart from running up to them and punching them inna face. (Which, let's face it, is not such a hot idea when they have machine guns.) There's batarangs. There's swooping down from above, using his cape as a glider. There's sneaking up behind them and silently picking them off one-by-one. And - my favourite - there's a move called the "inverse take-down", which begins with Batman perched on a ledge watching a mook walk past below, and ends with the unconscious mook dangling by his feet from the ledge. That never gets old.
One moment that really struck me when it happened -- but first, background: The game involves a certain amount of crawling around in the air ducts, and generally when Batman wants to get out through an opening that's covered by a ventilation grille, he gives the grille a kick and it goes clattering off across the room. This had already happened several times during my game when I got to a point where Batman was in an air duct looking out into a room being patrolled by a bunch of bad guys with guns. I figured they wouldn't have been written stupid enough to ignore a clattering ventilation grille, so I readied myself for action before I hit the "open the door" key.
Batman very gently worked the grille loose, and carefully, silently, placed it to one side.
It's happened a few more times since then, and I've got used to the idea that Batman's capable of adapting his actions to the circumstances, but it really got me that first time.
