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Really fine game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 48
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game looks really good, not only because of the graphics, but all of Batman's gizmos and gadgets from all of the movies are here, even the Batmobile and the Batplane. You fight jokers henchmen, Ivy's, Mr. Freeze's, and you even fight them! This game looks awesome through and through.

Batman vengeance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i got tthe game for my husband and son my son palyed it and he said it was easy Then my husband played and he was funny to watch he could not do anything

A Comic Book Video Game Done Right..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Reviewer warning: Since I am biased to the character and the entire Batman mythos, my ranking maybe higher than others.

As a Batman aficionado, I couldn't wait to get Batman Vengeance for the Xbox. And the game is great on some levels. It totally immerses you into Gotham and the characters that reside in the grimmest city of them all. Going up against the Joker, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Harley Quinn and the Joker were akin to playing for the World Champion Boston Red Sox (another dream of mine). The story line seems very different than most of the previous incarnations of Batman through out the years as it involves the strange abduction of a child who may not be what he seems. The rendered graphics for both the environment and the characters appear just like a 3-D cartoon. The splicing of the game's "cinematics" and "real time" action is hardly noticeable. Once and awhile, there are some helpful hints that are provided through an on-screen display to help out the gamer if there seems to be a problem getting past a level. The option to save your game to the Xbox's hard drive was very nice as the game directions only state the use of the 8MB flash memory. And the use of the original actors' voices from the TV series brings a sense of authenticity that is really appreciated to this gamer.

Unfortunately, as for Xbox game play, there are some issues that are hard to overlook. While Batman Vengeance looks just like a 3-D rendering of The New Batman Adventures television series, it is only a direct port (or in other words, conversion) from the PS2 game that was released in the Fall of 2001 which does not take advantage of the graphical features and processing capabilities available in the Xbox platform. There are frequent load screens that appear in-between scenes that definitely slow down the play of the game. There is no saving "on the fly" as the game requires you to quit your current progress, go to the opening screen, and then save. The use of the gadgets (Batgrappler, Batarang, etc.) can be somewhat confusing due to the sheer volume of items available (all items are shown but not always available) and the small font used for the quantity number in the lower left of the weapon display (hard to tell between 5 & 8 sometimes). Also, Batman Vengeance is also somewhat like Two-Face (who does not appear in this game, much to my dismay) as it does not know whether it is an action/adventure third person game (like Tomb Raider) or a first person shooter game (like another Xbox game, HALO) since you must toggle between the two.

Overall, the game pleases more than it disappoints. It is fun to play once you get use to the toggling between the two perspectives and seeing the graphics are enough for any fanboy used to seeing visual garbage put out on other gaming systems to make the purchase. But for the hardcore gamer, you may want to check out HALO first as it is a game created specifically for the Xbox and uses the Xbox's strengths quite well.

This is the Baest Batman game EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok it be better if it had multiplyer but this is truly a fun game. I'm a big fan of Batman and rate this five stars because it's not to easy nor hard.

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

Very cool...controls a bit difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this game is very cool and feels as if you are right in the animated cartoon that this is based on. Graphics are excellent as well as the cut-scense which are nicely done. Batman's movements are very fluid and using the different items we all know and love from the famous utlity belt is great.

My favorite is being able to jump from up high and glide down by extending your cape into a pseudo glider/parachute. Also, free-falling is pretty fun as well ( as in jumping off a bridge to catch someone who has fallen/been thrown off). Thank god that once you catch the falling person in mid-air, the game takes over and grapples you back to safety automatically (I'm only human, ya know)

The only con is that control does take a little getting used to. Most of the time, you move Batman in a 3rd person perspective (like Tomb Raider) but you must often switch to 1st person mode to use the different items such as the bat-grapple and batarangs, etc. While it's easy to switch back and forth, it takes some practice is remember the different controls for each mode....

Now this is a Batman game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would say this is the best Batman game I've ever played. The Batman games on Playstation are good, but confusing and hard to control.
I like how they got the actual voices for the characters and not some phony ones who stand out like a sore thumb.
The free falling and the airplane chase take the cake.
The only two things I don't like about the game are: they don't tell you exactly what to do and where to go, and you can't turn the camera around and get a better view.

Amazing batman!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing game... i found that it actually puts you in the game. I felt and still feel as if I am Batman. There are different levels to have fun on, there are even different vilins to battle. I would give this game a very high rating. Hope you found what you're looking for, i sure did.

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.

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

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