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Best Batman video game too !

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game comes straight from the movie obviously.You unlock more and more movie clips and other prizes with every stage you complete.As for the graphics go , awesome.Batman has great climbing capabilties.His hit combos aren't so great either thats for sure.But you do have special movies that mainly invlove jumping up in the air and falling upside down and drop kick the opponent.I give it three out of five stars.

A good play but not much depth

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Initially my review of Batman Begins was going to be a lot harsher but then I remembered my past Batman gaming experience - that would be Dark Tomorrow. The three hours I lost attempting to play that maddening, unrewarding, poorly animated game were among the least satisfying of my life... I'd have to say it was more disappointing than playing Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 back in the day.

But Batman Begins is a galaxy removed from Dark Tomorrow and, indeed, any other super hero-based game I've ever played. The visuals are superb, smooth and life-like. Backgrounds are rendered with great care and sensitivity to the Blade Runner-aesthetics of the source material (the film). The audio also is top notch. The game producers managed to get nearly every cast member from the movie to voice their characters which, to their credit, they perform with aplomb.

The problem arises with the game play itself. It is a terribly easy game; it seldom allows you to really screw up. For example, when on a ledge, Bats automatically goes into "careful mode", creeping along the ledge until he gets to a point of safety and you have to hit a release into order to resume a normal posture.

Another oversight has to do with the weapons. One of things that makes Batman Batman is, in the words of the Joker, all those "wonderful toys" he carries in his utility belt. Indeed, this was an element I figured would have been a slam dunk for the producers. Even the god-awful Dark Tomorrow allowed the player to access an array of offensive and defensive weapons whenever he or she desired to use them. In Begins, the "toys" are few : smoke bombs, flash bombs, throwing stars (well, "bats"), a "batarang" (used once during the whole play), a hacking tool, and a grappling hook. But the relative poverty of the utility belt is not the problem. The problem is access to the tools themselves. The game only allows the player to use them during scene-specific moments. So if you had the thought that it would be good to throw a smoke bomb before you entered a room in order to disorientate your foes, forget it. You have to go into the fight first before you are given the option of using an item from the belt.

And this is the general problem with the game. There isn't a lot of agency on the part the player. You intuit where you need to go within a very minimal geographical perimeter. You can never get "lost" because the game subtly pushes you forward and lets you know what you are to do next. Everything is laid out of you.

There is some strategy involved with figuring out how to get the drop on your opponents, but usually there is only one way to do this - spooking your foes to get them to drop their guns, then fighting them hand to hand. The actual fighting is fairly fun as Batman has a good array of attacks and combinations.

The Batmobile missions are pure candy. Anyone who has played Grand Theft Auto, or even Simpson's Hit and Run, will not need too much practice to get the hang of the car. But the geography is even more limited than the "walking around" world. The player essentially follows a "track," drives real fast, occasionally smashes into cars (where, inexplicably, no one seems to get hurt - perhaps its a difficulty-level thing), and does the Speed Racer jump over the occasional obstacle. Again, fun, but not necessarily challenging.

The thing about living in the post- Grand Theft Auto III world is that players are now expecting a lot more versatility with the worlds their digital counterparts inhabit. One of the supreme charms that the GTA3-generation of games offers is the ability to do things before, during, and after missions. In fact, while in my own play of GTA Vice City, I have spent so much time scooting around the airport doing jumps on my motorcycle that I haven't really picked up a mission in weeks! Sadly, Batman Begins offers no such off-mission fun whatsoever. This is a shame considering Bat's detective persona. He could bop around Gotham fishing for clues, hooking up small-time criminals, or even having Bruce Wayne moments at a basketball game. Perhaps the makers have this in mind for the sequel. There is obviously a lot room to grow. Might I suggest a RPG modality?

Final verdict, if you are not already a hard-core gamer, or if you are and would like to play something just for the visual thrill, then Batman Begins will provide at least two or three hours of fun.

I was expecting more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I saw Batman Begins and I thought it was pretty good. I was very excited when I heard there was going to be a game based on the movie. When I rented it I was very disapointed. This game is so short that I got frustrated about it. The best thing in this game is using stealth and scaring your emimies. The game is very repeditive. Overall it's a rent.

Okay... but limited?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The visual style of this game, just like the movie, is very good. The inclusion of Splinter Cell "stealth" elements is also a good idea. However, there are a couple of significant problems with this game:

1. WAY too linear. There is ONE way to scare a bad guy in each level, ONE place to throw a batarang in the whole level, ONE way forward and back. Batman is a creative guy! Make it open-ended like GTA, Spider-man, and Superman Returns... Batman is the most creative of all those folks, so his game should match.

2. Fighting and "fear" systems: Semi-broken, not very satisfying.

3. In relation to #1, Gotham feels very small. It would be nice to explore it from the rooftops and in vehicles. So far you are pretty much stuck in a building or two, with one straightforward objective.

Despite these design flaws, the production value of this game is very high. Worth renting, but hopefully the next game is open-ended, darnit.

This game loses something

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game's story follows the film almost exactly. You take the role of Bruce Wayne, whose motivation for crime-fighting stems from witnessing his parents' brutal murder in Gotham City. In Batman Begins, this passion takes darker overtones, and Batman must constantly balance his internal rage with his sense of justice. The game starts off in the Himalayas, where you learn the dark arts of being a ninja from a mysterious sect. Your mentor is a man named Ducard, voiced brilliantly in the game by Liam Neeson. As you reach the end of your training under Ducard and his odd band of ninjas, you're confronted with a moral dilemma. It's there that young Bruce Wayne decides that even his brand of angry vengeance has its limits, and he won't join in the sect's vision of bloodlust as justice against crime. From there the game's story shifts to Gotham City, where you uncover the mystery behind the trafficking of a mysterious hallucinogen.

Batman Begins makes for a decent companion to the film. After you spend about seven or eight hours to beat the game, you unlock numerous bonus items, such as interviews with the movie cast, galleries, and more. But as a game it doesn't quite measure up. Though it borrows numerous conventions from other great action adventure franchises, the elements don't end up coming together very well, resulting in a game that feels less than the sum of its parts.

One of the best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you love Batman you will love to be him. This game is really easy to understand the controls, some games loose point just because you can not figure out how to get them to go anything. This is a game that I wasn't thinking would be great, but we rented it first, and now we are waiting for it to ship!

PLUS - Once your order ships, a promotional code that can be redeemed for a free ticket--valued at up to $12. SO now we can go see the movie again. THis time a Buy one get one kinda thing!!

Batman Begins to a decent start on the X-Box

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This review will be brief,the more time spent reading this,means less time playing the game. As most of us read these reviews to see what others are saying about items we are interested in,before we shell out our hard earned $. First as a movie based game this one is superb. Graphics,voice acting,and character likeness are all top notch. The levels range in length and difficulty. The games greatest weakness is its overall gameplay. You cant really control Batman the way you would like to. His weapons,enemy targeting and stealth ability are confusing at times. At least on the X-Box version. The control set up is akward and really takes away from what could have been a great game. These are minor complaints and for a movie tie in game with a price under 40.00,you could do a lot worse. Overall this Batman is leaps and bounds superor to other Batman titles of the past,and should satisfy the fans until developers finally get it right.

Best Batman Game Yet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After reading a lot reviews on this game I decided to pick this one up. Now I'm glad I got it. This game keeps your attention the whole time. It is a LOT of fun to play with good graphics, great story line, and I could go on and on. The only negative is the camera angle doesn't want to follow you sometimes when needing to move. Overall I say this a game to buy for a video game player for the holidays or just because.

Batman has finally been done justice.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Batman Begins is a great game usind stealth ninja like abilities. The batmobile levels are fun too. The graphics in this game really bring it to life with amazing facial expressions. The only reason I didn't give this great game 5 stars is because I think they hould have tried to make more gadgets and more ways to get around obstacles. Another great thing about the game is that once you beat it you get the Dark Knight batsuit the Worlds Greatest Detective batsuit and The Caped Crusader batsuit. You also can drive the prototypr batmobile in the two driving levels. I HIGHLY reccomend playing this game on the challenging mode if you don't you can quickly beat the game in around 6 or 7 hours. Overall I fell that the 40 dollar price on this game is perfectly fair. - Max

Great Game and smooth graphics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very fun to play with lots of items to use. love the reputation spin on the game. A little clumsy on your view as you move around but easy to over come.

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