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EDGE:  THE FUTURE OF INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT

                Article summarized from original print of “Dark City”article in EDGE #231 September 2011

                Trying to grasp the scope of the new ARKHAM CITY game, the people at EDGE say  that though Batman is just as he was in ARKHAM ASYLUM with the “…same mixture of bruising strength and human fragility”, the developers have …inverted the environment completely.  The first game’s poky madhouse has been plucked from Gotham Harbor and dropped into the rambling streets of the city proper.  Concrete replaces carpets, interiors give way to exteriors, and brilliant, focusing claustrophobia is replaced by something that feels almost like an open-world games at times.”

                That being said, this new larger scope of the games will allow Batman to explore skills that were barely used or non-existent in the first game.  Batman will now have a chance to use his forensic skills and analyze crime scenes. Not only that, moves are enhanced for Batman to deal with this new environment, like his new ability to break through flimsy walls to reach targets or the ability to take down two enemies simultaneously and most fun to use will be the ability to use the environment during a fight (rails, walls, lamp posts, etc.)

                Rockteady® has also guaranteed that this environment will be filled with Batman DNA, “…we’ve got Batman legacy stuff, obvious nods, and cameos only hardcore fans will notice. We don’t force you to find them all, but if you come across a few, it makes the world feel more real.”

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Full Report originally appeared in PlayStation the Magazine Issue 50, October 2011.  Author: Matt Cabral.

It’s only one a little over a month for the release of Arkham Asylum’s sequel video game (Arkham City) all ready from the marketing to the preview playable demos available out there it promises to be another hit just like its predecessor.  The scale is just…unfathomable.  This time is not just a lunatic asylum but a whole city that is populated by the worst of the worst of the Batman rogue Gallery.  You not only will see Joker, but also Penguin, Two Face, and Riddler playing along with the Bat, to gain supremacy in the food chain of the criminal world.

The October issue of the Playstation Magazine offers an interesting view of what the new with the game.  Here is an excerpt of the whole article by Matt Cabral

                With so many baddies involved in this new chapter of the Batman saga, we have reassurance from Dax Ginn, Marketing Manager for Rocksteady, that it will not affect the atmospheric immersion we are used to from Arkham Asylum and we will not have lame characters with stupid lines or plots that do not relate to the whole development of the story.

                “Every aspect of the game is character driven.  It was critical during the development of the whole 40 hours of content…Characters, especially villains, need time to breathe; you really need to be able to plumb the  depths of the things that make them interesting.”

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