The bat finally gets his day in the computer world!
The graphics are brilliant I must admit, offering up next gen dark and dungy textures and moments of aww as you glide around the open ended area's with Batman taking damage to his gear as he progresses through the campaign, there was a few moments of screen tear admittedly on the PS3 release but nothing too distracting. The voice acting is second to none with Luke Skywalker stealing the show as the Joker always seems to do and Kevin Conroy yet again filling the boots as the voice of Batman in voice form (always doing a better job than Bale and his Batman/John Connor/general I'm angry man voice) The combat is fluid offering up many chances to pummel 20+ characters at a time and make it look as if you are playing EA's Ballerina 2009 it's got that much of a flow to it, at times this can turn into a button mash experience especially on the lower difficulties but then again any person who says a game is Easy when they completed it on easy is not proving anything other than they suck and cannot complete a game without being spoon-fed the answers. The boss fights are my main gripe, other than Poison ivy there does not seem to really be that much of a challenge to any of the boss fights other than dash up the simpletons then start on the big guy especially in the case of the final battle, luckily enough the Scarecrow scenes do show inspiration offering up enough fear and side scrolling originality to make those scenes at least feel like a good break from the hack and knock out of the main game.
All in all Arkham Asylum is the best Batman licensed game of all time, which is as helpful as saying that that person from that thing is good in that whatsyacallit? But truly this is a good game and one of the finest of the year and worth checking out if you are a Batman fan or not.