Both pro-reviewers and Batman fans alike praised Batman: Arkham Asylum, but what did fanboys think of the game? Did the people who live, breath and eat Batman (uh, maybe not that last bit) believe the game stayed true to the comic books?
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To the left of the desk where I am writing this stands a glass cabinet containing the complete line of Batman Hush action figures, including the Jason Todd as Hush figure, only one of two thousand ever made, pristine in the box of course.

To the right stands a bookcase holding about fifty pieces of Batman literature ranging from Frank Miller masterpieces The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Back, and the seminal Year One, to Jeph Loeb’s Batman:Hush and The Long Halloween, to the infamous Knightfall series where Bane defeats the Batman.

I left the cinema after both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight feeling particularly underwhelmed. Such is the plight of the fanboy, nothing is good enough. The films seemed to forget that Batman is the ‘Worlds Greatest Detective’. He’s a thinking mans Superhero. If Superman reads Nuts magazine, Batman reads Esquire.

I trust this gives some sort of weight to my claims of being a Batman fanboy (if one would want to claim such a thing is another matter!) A couple of months after Arkham Asylum’s release, my initial views of it being ‘the best game ever!!!’ have thankfully died down (I still stick with Little Big Adventure 2 for that title) and I can finally look at what Batman: Arkham Asylum really offers the more picky and critical among us; in other words, the fanboy.

Miss Razz via alternativemagazineonline.co.uk »