WHAT?!?!??! ****! I'm stuck at work!!! http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/08/06/demo-batman-arkham-asylum.aspx Someone play it and tell me if it lives up.... NOW!!
My 360 picked a bad ****ing time to crap out on me....it won't turn on- my power supply keeps flashing orange when its connected to the console.
since everything for me is blocked at work I'm reduced to scraping the bottom of the barrell for info. Found this on PennyArcade
I hope you're right. I read a couple early reviews that weren't favorable, however MetaCritics (whoever they are) gave it 90/100. So maybe the reviews I read were garbage.
if they complained that it is a lot of mashing buttons then they should be discarded. I do not understand this complaint. God of War is a bunch of mashing buttons and that game is AWESOME!
agreed, but Dynasty Warriors are button mashers and they are not (well the first ones were okay but now that they are on 6x10^5 they are not good anymore)
I think playing one Dynasty Warrior game is pretty fun. My problem with Dynasty Warrior is that if you played one, you played them all. Devils May Cry is pretty funny and that is pretty much a button masher. There are good button mashers and bad button mashers. I just do not believe that being a butotn masher makes a game bad.
My brief take- Solid demo... Didn't like how gargoyles were tossed randomly inside the asylum just so that you could swing to and from them. Graphic style is cool in my book..Batman looks awesome The game seems like it could get extremely repetitive though ... I hate games like that. Looks like a solid weekend rent.
I'm have a PS3 and I'm bitter about God of War. I by one to find out after I bought it, Sony decided to remove backwards comp in the model I picked. It isn't the only reason I bought the thing but was part of the appeal. BASTARDS!!! Looking forward to Arkam though.
i am loving the demo. graphics are awesome, style is awesome. like the late 80s comic book gothic revival of that dark knight style. fun game too, controls seem solid.
i think the people who complain about the game are the people who only played the hand to hand combat stuff. Cause the combat system is easy, generic, and a little boring. ...BUTTTTTTT, swinging around on the statues, taking out the guards from the ceiling, and sneaking around them while picking them off one by one, now that was kick ***.
I played the demo today, and I have to have this game. I hate stealth games, but this one adds depth to the stealth game,while still being fun. I love the strike-counter graphics. Great demo.
well im an achievement whore. so i hae to go 360. But if i wasn't an achievement whore, then yes, id go ps3 for the joker playability.
360 for me... only because FREE > ****** And, like everything else DLC, I'm sure the Joker stuff will eventually come over.
I played the demo. Kick *** game. Loved taking out the guards one by one. My thing was to hang a guard on the gargoyle. Then when all of the other guards rush over to see what happened, I attack the one douchebag that's alone. And, I didn't know you can play as the joker. Can someone tell me how?
I have played the demo quite a few times now and this game is unbelievable. I wish I had the money to throw at this on the 25th, but I might have to wait. The combat is basic in the demo, but it will get much more intricate as the game moves forward (according to the reviews). The stealth on the other hand is nasty right off the bat. I love hanging a guy and cutting him down with a batarang when the other guys walk under him. I take them out one by one and when the last guy starts freakin out I mess with him and take him out when he runs screaming into the control room by crashing through the glass. I f***in love this game already.
BATMAN.ARKHAM.ASYLUM.XBOX360.RF-MM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> With thanks to: m0dm0use, m60_maniac, stevoal, Lava Lamp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> www.xbox360iso.com World Exlusive Release - We know this will be repacked ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yea This is a a non-scene rip who cares I have now added this to verification database for those who use abgx360 1.0.1 or newer. So go ahead and run it through this will now verify agains't my retail rip. Ripped Twice to make sure this would pass! Abgx360 1.0.1 results below: \BATMAN.ARKHAM.ASYLUM.XBOX360.RF-MM\mm-baa.dvd is valid Checking Game ISO: "\BATMAN.ARKHAM.ASYLUM.XBOX360.RF-MM\mm-baa.iso " Size: 7838695424 bytes (SplitVid 3rd wave) Game partition offset: 0xFD90000 Root sector: 1737620 (0xE3F5A000), 2048 bytes default.xex sector: 1741734 (0xE4763000), 19677184 bytes Files in ISO: 4, Folders in ISO: 0 Total bytes used: 21381120 (0.29%) Game appears to have random padding Checking default.xex Module Flags: Title Module Image Flags: XGD2 Media Only 64 KB Pages System Flags: Uses Game Voice Channel Title ID: 534307F6 (SC-2038) Ver / Base Ver: v0.0.0.3 / v0.0.0.3 Disc Number: 1 of 1 Original PE Filename: Default.exe Original PE Timestamp: 2009/07/08 11:31:27 Allowed Media Types: DVD-XGD2 (Xbox 360 original disc) Game Ratings: ESRB: T (Teen 13+) PEGI: 16+ PEGI-FI: 15+ PEGI-PT: 16+ BBFC: 15+ USK: 16+ OFLC-AU: M (Mature) OFLC-NZ: M (Mature) FPB: 13+ Compression Info: Uncompressed and Encrypted Title Type: Full Game Title Dashboard Languages: English (default) German French Spanish Italian Polish Russian Game Name: Batman: Arkham Asylum Developer: Rocksteady Studios Ltd Publisher: EIDOS Genre: Action/Adventure Description: A hero's descent to the core of the criminally insane. Achievements: 47 Achievements totaling 1000 Gamerscore XEX CRC = 13BDB659 XEX Media ID: 3E9C063C6FC6840D63BD3B94-4A2B74A4 Region Code: 0xFFFFFFFF Region Free! Checking SS 04FB20h ------- PSN ------> 20339Fh DFCC60h ------- PSN ------> FB04DFh +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦ L0 Data Area = 1783936 sectors ¦ L1 Data Area = 1783936 sectors ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ 0x000FD90000 --------> 0x00E99CFFFF 0x00E99D0000 --------> 0x01C360FFFF <----------------- 3567872 sectors (7307001856 bytes) ----------------> Timestamp of Authoring: 2009/07/23 00:00:00 Timestamp of Mastering: 2009/08/02 08:56:38 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CT RT CID Mod? Pad? 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Make sure your drive is flashed with iXtreme version 1.4 or newer. Alternatively, you may enable the option to adjust angle 359 for compatibility with iXtreme < v1.4 SS CRC = ADA7D426 (RawSS = FD2F02A9) SS Media ID: 3E9C063C6FC6840D63BD3B94-4A2B74A4 (matches game) SS looks valid Checking DMI Timestamp of Authoring: 2009/07/23 00:00:00 (matches SS) DMI CRC = 34EBE2B3 DMI Media ID: 3E9C063C6FC6840D63BD3B94-4A2B74A4 (matches game) DMI looks valid Checking PFI 030000h ------- PSN ------> 03975Fh FC68A0h ------- PSN ------> FCFFDFh +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦ L0 Data Area = 0038752 sectors ¦ L1 Data Area = 0038720 sectors ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ 0x0000000000 --------> 0x0004BAFFFF 0x01CE7F0000 --------> 0x01D338FFFF <----------------- 0077472 sectors (0158662656 bytes) ----------------> PFI CRC = 2A4CCBD3 PFI matches known data (3rd wave - requires iXtreme v1.51 or later) Video partition found Volume ID: "CD_ROM" Volume space size: 38690 sectors (79237120 bytes) Volume creation date & time: 2009/01/14 16:00:00 (GMT-08:00) Video CRC = 0E58FB9D (V0 = CF942E7B, V1 = 4809B37A) Video partition matches known data (3rd wave - requires iXtreme v1.51 or later) Stealth check passed! Starting Verification Looking for ADA7D42613BDB659.ini in the online verified database ADA7D42613BDB659.ini was downloaded successfully Using ADA7D42613BDB659.ini (328 bytes): [ADA7D42613BDB659] SS=ADA7D426 RawSS=B9B91A3E PFI=2A4CCBD3 DMI=34EBE2B3 RegionFlags=FFFFFFFF V0=CF942E7B V1=4809B37A Video=0E58FB9D Game=5F28B787 XexHash=13BDB659 MediaID=3E9C063C6FC6840D63BD3B94-4A2B74A4 DiscSource=Retail GameName=Batman Arkham Asylum GamerTag=m0dm0use DriveName=Unknown DriveFW=Unknown Notes=[abgx360 v1.0.1] Video CRC matches V0 CRC matches V1 CRC matches PFI CRC matches DMI CRC matches SS CRC matches Xex CRC matches Checking Game CRC... (press Q to cancel) Percent Elapsed Estimated Time Average Current Errors Total Done Time Time Left Speed Speed Recovered Retries 100% 3:26 3:26 0:00 33.7 MB/s 48.7 MB/s AnyDVD style corruption was not detected Game CRC = 5F28B787 (matches) All CRCs match Verification was successful! Press any key to exit . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Retail Cover Scan: check covergalaxy Disc Label Scan: check covergalaxy Released: 20/08/09 Street Date: 25/08/09 The codes for this game are Xbox live market place codes unlike Red Faction these codes are unique REGION FREE Origin USA-NTSC/U Languages: ENGLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITALAIN, POLISH, RUSSIAN Filename: mm-baa.r79 I know m0 compression who cares - scene do but I'm not the scene fyi scene if this gets repacked and taken as your own I will know!