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The worst game on the box

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the worst game I ever seen on any of the next generation consoles if you have to have this game than get it for the PS2 or Gamecube. The control is horrible and the cut screens are way to long plus you can't skip them. If you want a solid game for your Xbox take Halo.

DO NOT BUY!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a terrible game. The graphics are completely pathetic! When you turn a corner,the camera looks in the wrong direction! There is way too much cinema and the levels are empty. There are barely any enemies and when you do see them ,they just sit there and shoot you. You only get to use the gadgets if you have enough of them. My advice to you is that this game is a complete waste of money! DON'T BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch the cartoon instead!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is not a good game at all. The graphics are Sega Genesis quality and the gameplay is terrible. Batman has good hand to hand skills, but can only use certain weapons in certain situations. I rented it for 5 days and played it about a total of 45 minutes in those 5 days. Save your money and get something else. This game is horrible!!!

Batman????

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Reccently i recived this game for free at my local gaming store. This game is just plain off weak
Very little action, Extremely easy to beat, a million glitches (everywhere in the game u can see through walls)
This game does provide some neat things such as the car chace and the helicopter ride. Put after a minute i see the same room and design over and over agian.
FMV parts are "ok"
Basically the company used the name Batman to attract people and put out such a horrible game on Xbox,Ps2,GC,GBA.
THIS GAME IS NOT WORTH [price] don't even go rent it u will be extremely upset.

Aggrivating....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you want a game that's fun, buy something else. The controls make this game super frustrating.

Lives up to expectations... almost

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I must say that I am mostly impressed. This game is the first Batman video game I've ever played that I enjoyed (the others, quite frankly, were awful). The graphics are great, the movement is very fluid, and the animated sequences are fantastic. They developed no shortage of moves for Batman, such as gliding with his cape, or hiding in shadows against the wall.

The problem is that the game can be very frustrating at certain points due to the limitations in control. It would have worked much better if its controls were more like Halo and Max Payne, in which you move with one thumbstick and control the viewpoint with the other. Here, Batman's perspective is limited and you constantly have to press the trigger button when you want to look in the direction that Batman is facing.

The fight scenes are good, as are Batman's martial arts moves, but there are certain parts where it is very awkward and frustrating to maneuver him. The biggest example of this is when fighting Poison Ivy's minions hand-to-hand; the very slight delay between pressing the button and the execution of the move is just long enough for the plant guy's to knock you on your butt.

Having Batman use the grapple is neat, but very limited: you use the grapple only to certain select spots where they allow you to do it, and not to any surface that would likely be able to hold a grappling hook. It's not like Spider-Man (which in most ways was obviously Batman: Vengeance's biggest inspiration) where you can pretty much use the web to attach to whatever you want.

The car and plane chases are lame. There's no other word for them. The detail is scant, control is very limited and if you deviate even slightly from the set path, you lose and have to restart from the checkpoint. Basically, it's as if the developers spent five minutes working on the vehicle sequences.

If you compare this game to trend setters such as Playstation's Spider-Man, which set the standard for urban superhero games, or X-Box's Halo, which has amazing graphics, fantastic control and great vehicles, Batman falls a little short. Still, for anyone who loved the animated series (which I did), it is a heck of a lot of fun to interact in Gotham City, the atmosphere of which the developers flawlessly mirrored for this game. I was very impressed by the graphics and it was so great that they got the original cast from the cartoon to provide the voices here.

How far would you go?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All in all, the game is kind of boring. If it weren't for the fact that the Batgrapple could only be shot at certain places at certain times, and if enemys were found more in the game, and weren't so hard to take down(using the term "hard" loosly), then it would be a pretty good game...

I like the fact that they used the original voices from the cartoon, and the cinimatics are great (I still like the explosion the best).

All in all, they really should have put more into the game. I was expecting more action than that of adventure. (just remember one thing, the game box itself can be very deceptive!!!)

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I thought that this was a good excellent game. It has some great cinematics there are some tough levels like the car chase. This is an overall good games the controls are a little tough but overall a veyr good game and very enjoyable

Best Batman Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have liked BATMAN since I was a kid. This game seemed stupid when I heard it was batman (yes, i grew out of that phase) but when i actually got to play the game it actually had alot of cool features. The Batman's movement is really cool, the cutscenes are great, however their mouth doesnt move (can be ignored). Sound gives you the feeling of the old batman cartoon again. Storyline is basically the Batman cartoon that was on TV. Missions are sometimes a bit difficult because of camera angle but overall brings the thrill. I would recommend this because this is actually the BEST BATMAN game around that stuck to the original BATMAN storyline on TV and it is actually playable. Although there are rooms for improvement, this game is great and better than any other titles out there so if you are a BATMAN fan, this is it.

Sound: 8.5
Replay Value: 7
Gameplay: 9
Graphics: 8.5
Story: 9
Overall: 8.5

This game was actually loads of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Batman Vengeance is a fun action game that keeps you enjoying every moment all the way through the game. Honestly, I'm not one to like Batman, but this game was so much fun. When this game first came out, it was actually a lot of fun. I really wanted a good action/adventure game to play and what better than a batman game to fulfill this need. I've never watched the Batman animated series, but I hear that the game is loosely based on those. It's got a very dark, comic book look. The graphics are very hard to judge because of the art direction it takes. They don't look bad in any sense, they are just very comic book-y. I actually really enjoyed the look of the game. Let's just say they aren't realistic in any way.

The gameplay is also really good. Although the game takes a very "go from point A to B" type of style it is still so much fun. Throughout the game, you will encounter some of the most popular Batman bad guys from Poison Ivy to Doctor Freeze, and of course The Joker. They all make a great contribution to the game. Most of the game is played through a 3rd person perspective. When in this perspective, you can do pretty much everything except use your special gadgets and bat-toys. In that case, you go into a 1st person mode. My favorite of the gadgets is probably the batarangs; they are SO much fun! One small gripe about these gadgets is you cannot use them while staying in 3rd person. When you use any of them, the game automatically takes you into 1st person mode, which can feel pretty clunky and confusing at times. If you are in close combat, however, you can stay in 3rd person mode and fight with good old punches and kicks. The fighting in this game was put together very well and felt very authentic.

Overall, this game was very good, especially for a game that came out in 2001. It had a very unique art style that I liked a lot, even though it didn't truly show the power of the Xbox. It was definitely worth playing, a little short, but still very good.

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