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I had been kind of vaguely aware that there was a game coming out called Batman: Arkham Asylum, but I hadn't really been paying attention. Games based on TV, film and comic book characters come out all the time, and many of them aren't really worth the attention. On top of which, I don't spend a lot of time or money on computer games generally; they tend to register in my mind as "expensive", and I have to feel really confident about a game before I want to incur the expense.

Then I happened to read this review, which says that the most important thing to know about Batman: Arkham Asylum is that the central character really is Batman, not just a generic video game protagonist in a Batman costume. On top of which, apparently, it's got excellent voice acting and all the other achievements one looks for in a good game.

Hmm, I said to myself. That almost sounds promising. And then: Come to think of it, I haven't heard who's doing the voices for this.

So I went to look.

...

It's Kevin Conroy! And Mark Hamill! And Arleen Sorkin! And some other people I don't really care about, but that doesn't matter because at this point -- hey, look! storyline and dialogue by Paul Dini! -- at this point I'm grinning like somebody who's had a snootful of Joker gas, but it's because I really truly am that happy.


I foresee something expensive happening in my near future.