Batman: Arkham Asylum trailer conjures wishful thinking of Batman in Rapture
The latest trailer for Rocksteady's upcoming action title Batman: Arkham Asylym is superficially impressive, a rapid staccato of the leering rictuses of Batman's villain gallery, all of whom are nightmare ids sprung from the broken mind of Bruce Wayne himself. Familiarity with Grant Morrison's brilliant Arkham Asylym graphic novel fills in the blanks a bit, leading me to hope for the best.
And what is the best? Actually, a game more like Bioshock than a comics-licensed game, where Arkham Asylum is Rapture, the Joker Andrew Ryan, the escaped inmates Splicers, and the amnesia subplot replaced by Batman finally coming to understand his own insanity's symbiotic link to that of the maniacs of Gotham.
I hope for that game. I don't think Rocksteady or DC is going to give it to us, though.
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#1 – 5:37 AM December 9, 2008
yeah that would require too much of DC. lately they have mostly demonstrated that they'd rather go conventional than interesting. which is a shame because orginally Morrison had control of the whole DC Universe to reset it, but rumor is he's been gimped by editorial as the series nears it's completion.
Arkham was a great book, not my favorite, but really solid. i can't imagine how it'd work as a game, and certainly not as an intersting game. i have no doubt whatever they put out will completely forego any of the interesting facets to the book.
jackgreg
#2 – 8:59 PM December 9, 2008
Sounds good, but I think we've already played that game. Either we get more Conan/Hellboy (which is what this looks like) or we get something completely different. But the completely different stuff is rare. Part of what makes it completely different.