Batman Game Retrospectives

[riddler]

Certainly! I haven't played all of them, but I've played most of them. And I'll try to give the others a whirl, assuming I can find some emulators...

Your user name rocks! That is all.

[Azrael]

Decided to collect these retrospectives for future reference. I don't quite agree with all their opinions (to lenient on some games, too harsh on others), but the gamesradar guy nails it on Batman Returns/SNES.

Gamesradar: http://www.gamesradar.com/batmans-best-and-worst-games/
Video Game Critic: http://videogamecritic.net/extras/batman.htm
Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-21-retrospective-batman-article
The Bit Bag: http://www.thebitbag.com/2009/08/23/video-game-retrospective-batman/
1UP : http://www.1up.com/features/batman-videogame-retro-roundup (well written article and solid opinions, but I disagree on Batman 89 for Sega! It's one of the best :p )

Also, three in-depth reviews from Sega-16:
Batman - http://www.sega-16.com/2006/01/batman-the-video-game/
Batman Returns - http://www.sega-16.com/2009/04/batman-returns/
Batman Forever - http://www.sega-16.com/2006/07/batman-forever/

[Azrael]

Someone needs to do a comprehensive article about all of the Batman video games. And a video games section of the site would be pretty bitchin', Paul. I volunteer to bulk up any such possible section any way I can, should you like the idea. I personally would love to work on/read a comprehensive catalogue of all Batman games. He's had a lot, and so many of them good/excellent. More than people think.

Old post, yet encouraging, there's at least one more person that thinks Batman games didn't suck before Arkham Asylum came along.

(edit dated June 9)
I wanted to do a proper retrospective on those games, at least the good ones, similar to the format employed by http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ , one of the definitive retro gaming sites.

They've already done extensive articles about games that are very loosely connected together (different developers, systems, gaming generations etc) and have only the licence as the common core (e.g Asterix, Donald Duck). Their style is very informative and is more about facts about the games, when known, as well as explaining and describing how each game works, and less about expressing the personal opinion of the writers.

However, something like this takes a lot of time and research, and I don't think it's worth it.

[Paul (ral)]

Access to work on features will be available within the next 4 days.

I will do a video to show those who wish to be staff how to add video games to the database listings so it can have a "spotlight" page.

[Silver Nemesis]

Here's a video from Mike Matei over at Cinemassacre.com, checking out some old Batman games that weren't mentioned in the AVGN review.

http://cinemassacre.com/2012/07/19/mike-reviews-some-batman-games/

[Paul (ral)]

Access to work on features will be available within the next 4 days.

I will do a video to show those who wish to be staff how to add video games to the database listings so it can have a "spotlight" page.

Obviously that was BS!

10 more lines of code and the features section is ready!

[Azrael]

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[riddler]

http://whatculture.com/gaming/10-greatest-batman-video-games-of-all-time.php

Is it August the 1st, or April the 1st? At least that's what I thought when I saw the above list, published today.

He loses credibility by NOT including the original NES Batman in the list (but still using a screen), by forgetting about Ocean's movie game for Amiga (which had pioneering, for the time, racing stages), and for his choice as #2. He doesn't even aknowledge #2's negative critical reception by virtually everybody, even by lenient review magazines of the 90s (GamePro). Too bad I don't have the time and the energy for a proper list at the moment.

In his defense, Return of the Joker was considered the better of the 2 games. But Batman and Robin was a better game than Batman Forever. And considering Arkham city #6 was absurd.

[Dhennick99]

-This retrospective is very well done. Check it out!

[Azrael]

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