Opening words:PS3, PS3, PS3, why? you can play as the joker!!! and that makes this version the best hands down. Don’t bother with the pc and xbox versions.

Presentation: 9.4
GREAT! This lives and breathes a good version of the batman series. Voice actors are from the Animated Series. The look and feel of everything, the menus, the splash scenes of batman. The story is very well done, incorporating most of batman’s old foes. Paul Dini wrote the story and it is based on the comic series and not some other garbage spin off 3rd party crap. Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Arleen Sorkin all lend their vocal talents for this game.

Single Player: 9.6
The single player game is the core, this is the story mode, but there is also the challenge modes. The story in this is very good, I am not a huge batman fan and I found this to be very enticing. You become batman in every sense. You fight like him in the beat em up part of the game, you sneak around like him in the stealth parts of the game, and you get more and more gadgets over time that really keep the pace and the new experiences kicking in all at the right times. The way they tell the story is excellent. How joker always is talking at you over the PA in the asylum is really cool, and eggs you on. The challenge modes are more like old school beat em up style challenges. I think the storty mode is amazing. The boss battles are fun as well.

Visuals: 9.2
The attention to detail is phenomenal. The characters looks stunningly amazing. I cannot believe this was made with the unreal engine. Shows that in the right hands, it’s even better than the inventors of the engine. There is no slow down, the game runs silky smooth on the ps3. The environments are jaw droppingly erie and spooky in that great gotham way. I cannot get over how great this game looks even against all the other AAA ps3 games on the market now. WOW.

Audio: 9.5
Top notch. Seriously, the music, the voice acting, the sound fx. It is perfect. I cannot stress how well done the voice acting is in this game. Sometimes the audio gets really suspenseful and creepy.

Game Mechanics: 9.0:
The game is easy to pick up and play, although the stealth parts really take patients and waiting for the right time to do silent sleeper attacks. If you try and run and gun against bad guys who have guns, you will lose every time, you must use stealth to take out the guys with guns usually. The beat em up parts are really fun, and you can button mash or play smart. The combo system, and leveling up with bat points, is really cool, and new powers and gadgets will be unlocked over time. I really see this as more of an RPG with splinter cell style stealth with batman gadgets, with an 80s arcade beat em up mixed in. Nothing is really hard to master either. It does take some skill when it comes to the stealth, but other than that, I think this game is pretty accessible to anyone who wants to play it. I like the exploding batterangs. And also the grappling hook, exploding gel. The gadgets are really cool. Some of the level designs are really good, There are parts of the game that are like a platforming style type of game. The asylum is huge, and there is a lot to explore, but that being said, you will come back through a lot of the same buildings, the good thing is that all the buildings seem real, like they have a purpose. The game reminded me of metroid on the game cube, because once you unlock certain gadgets, you are able to go back to a place and get to a new place you couldn’t before. I really liked his electro vision mode that shows you all the clues and makes everything look weird. I played most of the game in this mode, I love how it turns people into skeletons and you can see them through objects and detect them through heat.

Story: 8.5
A Brand new story line based on the comics. Batman easily captures the joker, takes him back to the looney bin prison. Joker escapes his henchman have taken over the entire prison. A lot of the people Batman has locked up over the years make their appearance in the story. Many of the boss fights etc. There are some great twists and sub plots. The way the story is told through psyche ward evaluation tapes and notes is very well done, and very creepy in some ways. Very good.

Replay: 7.9
The ps3 version gives you all the challenges with the joker, so it’s the one to get. Still there is no multiplayer element, or online mode. So this kind of hurts the replay.

Total Score: 9.4 out of 10:
I seriously have not had more fun with a single player game this year so far. I highly recommend that you rent it no matter what. This is a buy if you like these kinds of games. By far this is the best comic book based hero video game ever made. No joke! I am not into comics like I used to be when I was younger. No matter what, batman and all his super cool gadgets makes for a great video game this time around. AMAZING. Buy Batman Arkham Asylum for the ps3 by Clicking Here.

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