june gloom on 5/8/2009 at 19:22
Oh jeez.
mothra on 6/8/2009 at 23:10
pc release date has been pushed back to september 15 and 18 for us/eu. will get physx support....no word about the pc demo...
june gloom on 6/8/2009 at 23:24
Oh well I wasn't planning on playing it this month anyway.
mothra on 7/8/2009 at 07:37
so, how does it play ? with kb+m please, I don't have a controller
EvaUnit02 on 7/8/2009 at 08:23
Quote Posted by mothra
so, how does it play ?
It's extremely well polished. The melee brawling is simple and intuitive. The stealth mechanics obvious are decent and completely obvious (remember, it's aimed at console audiences).
I did run into a forced stealth sequence where you have to defeat a room full of goons with assault rifles. Batman is useless against guns so he has to rely on stealth takedowns, knocking them off one by one.
It appears that they've taken inspiration from that silly "magical sonar vision" from The Dark Knight film and turned into a entire mechanic here called Detective Vision (well they don't use sonar like in the film, but something that resembles x-rays). It highlights the status of enemies (i.e. their armaments, state of conciousness), environmental features that can be used to your advantage like breakable glass, air duct grates, etc.
As a feature of a game, it totally makes sense. Such a thing is obviously going to look stupid in a serious film like TDK.
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with kb+m please, I don't have a controller
I only played with a 360 pad, I'll have to replay the demo to get impressions of the kb+m controls.
EvaUnit02 on 7/8/2009 at 08:40
They didn't bring back Tara Strong, the most consistent voice actress of Batgirl in the DCAU shows, to voice Oracle. :mad:
And yes, they're using Oracle to fill the modern console game cliche of "female (
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissionControl) Mission Control giving exposition".
Morgoth on 7/8/2009 at 10:51
Played the demo, and it's surprisingly good. The mix of close combat and sneaking feels very good, the art and graphics are very polished. So if the whole thing has a decent story, then I'm gonna buy it.
Matthew on 7/8/2009 at 10:51
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
They didn't bring back Tara Strong, the most consistent voice actress of Batgirl in the DCAU shows, to voice Oracle. :mad:
And yes, they're using Oracle to fill the modern console game cliche of "female (
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissionControl) Mission Control giving exposition".
At least the role suits, to be fair.
