Review: Batman Arkham Asylum | GamesAreEvil.com
GrE writes, "Developing a good quality game based around a comic book hero is notoriously difficult to achieve. There have been plenty of attempts over the years, such as the recent Superman Returns game and various X-Men titles, but they either don’t quite hit the spot, or worst yet, show a callous disregard for the source material they are drawing inspiration from.
Most recently, Wolverine managed to nearly achieve comic book game greatness with an enjoyable and violent hack-n-slash affair. Unfortunately, it still didn’t really pay enough homage to its origins and everything just felt a little bit, dare I say, shallow. So despite being hugely excited by the promise that Batman: Arkham Asylum was showing in various previews, I was a little concerned that it wouldn’t keep to its solemn promises of becoming the definitive Batman title. Boy was I wrong! Instead I was fortunate enough to play the best game of the year so far…"
