Game of the year...
I have to say that i was waiting for this game, not because i´m a Batman fan, but because i saw some images that gave me the impression that we were going to have a great adventure of the caped crusader this year. Let me say that this game doesn´t follow the summer blockbuster The Dark Knight, it focus on the adventures of the caped crusader in the comics.
Now let´s talk about the game, Batman once again captured Joker and brings him to the Arkham Asylum, but this time Mr. J has some evil plans to bring down the Dark Knight, he somehow breaks the security and releases all the prisoner´s of Arkham and chaos is installed now Batman needs to stop this situation. To do that Batman has in hand some of his cool gadgets like batarangs, explosion gel (this gadget is great), a grapple gun to bring down some enemies or walls and some other great instruments...
The gameplay is great, i played this game in a keyboard and it´s very simple all you have to do is press the two mouse buttons and sometimes the shift key to see Batman performing a great amount of violence. The combat is very fast, very dynamic, even when you try to use some stealth you don´t have to press three or four buttons to see him knocking down the enemies.
I played in this in max resolution and the graphics are great, i don´t have a graphics card Nvidia so i couldn´t activate the physisX, but even so it gave me a good graphical experience.
Most of the boss battles are nice, i don´t want to spoil it but there´s one in which you it will be very engaging and it´s going to mess with the childhood of Bruce Wayne. The problem is that we only fight like 5 or 6 of them and we all know that the Batman series has some of the great villians we ever seen in a comic stripe.
There´s a lot to do in the game, even when you finish the main quest there´s a lot of riddles to solve, sometimes you have to find some Riddler´s trophies and sometimes you just have to look for something else...
Batman: Arkham Asylum is the last game being made by Eidos (the guys that gave us Tomb Raider) and it´s their best. So if you´re looking for a game to play in the PC i suggest you buy this one even if you´re not a Batman fan.