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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.

Buy this now!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: June 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've just finished the game and i have to say this is really great!
It really fits in well with the film, using the same actors voices and the characters look very similiar to their real-life counterparts.

As well as Batman, you get to play as Bruce Wayne in training before he becomes batman and also as Bruce in a tuxedo in a level which has the Wayne Manor in flames. Very cool.

The driving bits are great fun as well, very Burnout, with extra racing modes being unlocked after you beaten those levels.

The main gameplay consists of a mixture of combat and stealth. If Batman comes accross a group of heavily armed enemies, he will end up dyingh if he tries to tackle them directly. you need to use stealth to sneak up on them or even beter use your fear-gadgets or a batarang on your surroundings (e.g throw your batarang at a gas-pipe to burst it), to scare them a bit beforehand, making defeating the enemies easier.

The game isn't too difficult (though the combat seems to be a lot tougher in Challenging mode) and took me about 9 or 10 hours to beat in Normal mode.

The graphics are simply amazing. The levels graphics are some of the best i've seen on a XBox game and the Batman charcater looks very cool in his bausuit and cape.

The game could have had a bit less linear with more ways of solving the situations that you come accross but at least it means you never get stuck for too long.

The controls are pretty straight forward, with 2 butons for combat (punch & kick) as well as another button for soing special finishing moves and other buttons for batarang and fear gadgets.

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.

I'm Batman

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you loved the movie, you'll love the game. Of course, there's a little bit more events in the game, but they are well worth it. Being able to sneak up on your enemies and basically scare the s*** out of them in the immediate area is loads of fun. I especially liked dropping in from above and taking them out. The interrogations are pretty fun too. Bringing the cast of Batman Begins in to do the voice work (except for Morgan Freeman) and using movie clips as some cut scenes is a treat too. So go out and get this game...at least rent it!

AWSOME GAME!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS A GREAT GAME TO PLAY IF YOUR A BATMAN FAN. THE GRAPHICS
OWN! AND THE GAME PLAY IS KOOL! YOU CAN BE JUST LIKE BATMAN IN THIS GAME. YOU CAN SCARE YOUR ENEIMIES,USE YOUR SWEET GADGETS
SUCH AS FLASHBANG GERNADES,SMOKE GERNADES,AND THOSE SWEET NINJA STARS. THE COMBOS AND ATTACKS ARE AWSOME.YOU CAN UNLOCK A BUNCH OF STUFF LIKE BATMANS ORIGINAL COSTUMES, ANY WAYS IF YOU WANT A KOOL GAME BUY THIS!!!!!!!

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.

Simply put : WOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this is honestly THE best Batman game i have ever played. i am a huge batfan and loved this game, i have beaten it 4 times already, its freaking FUN to play in different "batsuits" i personally like the "worlds greatest detective" suit. And the "splinter-cell*ism*" of it is GREAT!

Anyway ALL the cut scenes are GREAT (especially cause they are In-game) and the controls are great. The camera and sound are good to.

The batmobile is SWEET but has bad armor, so dont hit any walls.

If you like Batman, BUY IT. if you dont like batman, BUY IT.

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