Batman Arkham Asylum Review and News

Batman Arkham Asylum. I would have reviewed it sooner if I hadn't been glued to my TV playing it for the last couple of weeks.

Damn is this a great game. I'm gonna put it up for greatest superhero game I've ever played, and I've heard it's on a lot of lists for game of the year, and for good reason. It's just damn fun. You're the Batman, and not a crappy side scrolling semi-retarded Batman. You're the real deal. You see, the Joker has tricked you into getting him into Arkham Asylum, whereupon he has released an army of Batman's greatest foes. It's up to you to do the Batman thing and fight through the night to lock them all back up and take the Joker down again.

You get everything in this one. You've got a really fun and fairly intuitive fighting style that lets you walk into a room filled with 10 guys and take them all out without ever taking a hit. Then you've also got Batman's stealth, where you can run and grapple around a room and take out baddies without them ever even knowing where you are. Those two things are fun enough, hell their fun enough to warrant their own mini games, but when you add the uniqueness of the boss fights and all the different Riddler challenges, you've got one hell of a well rounded game. There's nothing cooler than when you're doing stealth take downs to hear the terror in the voices of the villains, all while Mark Hamill's Joker is taunting them for getting take out. What can I say, if you don't have this one yet, you're really missing out.

Now for those of you that have played it are saying, yea, I know all this shit, where's the news you promised, well, here you go. MTV's gaming site, Multiplayer.com, has announced that on September 17th free content will be available for download. That's right, the game hasn't even been out a month and there's gonna be a free content download. Unknown what the content is as of now, maybe new challenge levels, maybe new levels or challenges for the game, but its on the way. So keep your eye out for all new ways to keep Batman Arkham Asylum kicking ass for the forcible future.