Batman Arkham City Review

The Dark Knight Strikes Back Again But This Time In Arkham City

      

            I have finally managed to play one of the most anticipated games of the year which is “Batman Arkham City” on the PS3 Console. Arkham City is developed by a little known developer how’s name is Rocksteady studios.

            Since that time and as history has proved games based on superhero comic books didn’t sell very well due to the fact that they have failed to impress the fans, because they offered poor gameplay and a bad storyline, But things changes and a way back to be exactly on August,25 2009 Rocksteady changed ,revalorized and impressed the comic gamers around the world by releasing one of the best looking comics book game “Batman Arkham Asylum”.

            Batman Arkham City is an open world action video game and it was released last month on Oct 18, 2011 and in my opinion it features one of the best opening in gaming. The Story line is rich and deep and it takes places 18 months after  the sequel Arkham Asylum.

Batman Performing his Combat Moves

Mary Quincy Sharp has sectioned off a portion of Gotham City which then it was renamed Arkham City and became the new Arkham Asylum. Batman or “Bruce Wayne” than it has been arrested under highly questionable circumstance and was brought into the City and imprisoned. Into the prison than he was targeted by many of his fellow enemies and so he made up his mind and decided that he must find a way out to escape and also to stop and find out what was the real intention of the diabolical Doctor Hugo Strange . Dr Strange knows the secret of Bruce and was one of the batman’s earliest foes.

Batman Asking For Information

Once Into the city for the detective Batman it will not be easy task as he will have to face many difficulties and encounter goons with amour, shields, stun rods, guns and as well as many well-known bosses from the comic book series like the

Joker, Two Faces, penguin and much more.

The visuals of the game are fantastic and the gameplay has also been drastically improved from the previous title due to the fact that Batman it has been equipped with a lot of new useful and upgradable gadgets and abilities so that to fly,

Investigate and battle around the city.

Also the combat system is very fluid and you will be able to unlock many useful counters and special moves. The game was also expanded with the addition of four hundred Ridler trophies, numerous side quests, multiple numbers of challenges maps and also a robust character bio.

I had the opportunity to play the previous game and from my calculations it offered over 12-15 hours of game play. Well I have a surprise for you as that in “Arkham city” their is no exception as according to Rockstaedy to complete 100% the game you will have to spend over 40 hours and this figure does not even include the challenge Maps, simply fantastic.

In my personal opinion the only disappointments of the game were that there are no vehicles available like for example the bat mobile to ride and use through the city, sometimes the villains repeat the same lines over and over again, the boss battles are a bit too easy and also their is a lack of multiplayer mode which may be seen as a minus point by some gamers.

              All in all everything in the game is fantastic and it is worth playing for sure. I felt that I was the Dark Knight and It will definitely keep you hooked because it is so addictive that it will never pass from your mind to put down the controller and turn off the game.

As a final verdict I will give the game what it merits 

9.5/10 Score

Thanks Rocksteady you have done a great job and I hope that in the near future you will

release another game but with a different

Superhero character.

 General Information About The Game

Developer(s): Rocksteady Studios

Developer game web site: http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/#

Publisher(s): Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Square Enix (Japan)

Director(s): Sefton Hill

Writer(s): Paul Dini

Engine: Unreal Engine 3

Platform(s): PlayStation 3

Release date(s): AUS October 17, 2011, NA October 18, 2011, EU October 21, 2011, JP November 23, 2011

Genre(s): Action-adventure beat 'em up, stealth

Mode(s): Single-player

Rating(s): ACB: M, BBFC: 15, ESRB: T, PEGI: 16,USK: 16+

Media/distribution: Dual-layer Blu-ray Disc


If you need any additional information about the game you can visit: http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Arkham_City

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Tactical Espionage Action) Review

The last Capture of the Legendary Soldier

 I have finally managed to put my hand on and played Metal Gear Solid 4. In my personal opinion it is a Master peace and is one of those games that certainly it make you want to buy or wish that you have owned a Play Station 3.

In this review I am not doing to spoil certain events of the game as it wouldnt be fun playing it any more.

                                                              MGS4 as many may know is one of the first exclusives games that might have pushed the power of the PS3 console up to to its limits. It offers brilliant level designs, 20 hours of pure gameplay which 90 minutes of them are of beautiful cinematic cut scenes. You are also able to earn various emblems awards based on your performance trueout the game and also it has lot of secrets that one must or needs to discover. 

Snake Patting Down a Soldier

The game was released 4 years ago to be exactly on June 12, 2008 by the director and game designer legend Hideo Kojima, and it features the last installment for the legendary soldier “Solid Snake” in the Metal Gear Solid franchise. The game scenario in set in the year 2014 and Solid Snake isn’t a young man anymore. The reason is because his cells are deteriorating due to the fact that he was cloned from genetics of “Big Boss”. In this final chapter Snakes mission is to search for “Liquid Ocelot” (formerly known as “Revolver Ocelot” whose mind was passed by the persona of Snakes Brother “Liquid Snake”) so that to stop him from conquering the world with the help of his “PMC”. In other to find Ocelot snake had to visit 5 unique areas which are the Middle East, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Europe and also shadow Moses and Arsenal Gear (I think that some of you may have realized and that the answer is yes the last 2 places are where MGS 1 was settled) .

Snake Using One of Drebin's Weapons 

Thanks to Dr. Hal Emmerich or “Octocon” nake is equipped with a lot of new and useful devices so that to help and make his life a bit easier on the battlefield, some of which are the “MK II” which is a remote mobile terminal to support as a personnel, The “Solid Eye” which acts as a radar and provides vital states of the enemies and the surrounding and also the “Otocamo” which is a high –tech suit that dynamically transforms its textures based on snake’s surroundings.

Young Snake Face Camo

There are many unlock able’s to unlock such as “Special outfits” and “Face Camos” which enable you to play as another character like “Young Snake”,“Raiden” and much more. A new addition in the game is also the “Drebin Shop”, Drebin is a soldier that works for huge network underground gun launderers who replaces ID Chips in guns so that they can be used by anyone. Snake will meet wiith him at the opening minutes of the game and thanks to him he will be able to buy, use and customize a wide range of different avaiable weapons.

All The Characters of MGS 4

The game also features some funny comedy moments as in the previous title where you will certainly enjoy. For example do you remember when we used to play “MG1” and in the middle game due to the limitations of that time we had to swap the CD of the game. Well Octacon will call you through the codec and tell you “Snake you have to change the disc, but he find out that the game is on the PS3 and because of the Blu-ray storage capacity it's unnecessary” loll.

In my opinion one of the only drawbacks of this game is that it doesn’t have the support of trophies, due to the fact that Sony didn’t added the trophy feature to the Play Station 3 until a month after the release of the game. Since than many speculations has been around for the trophy patch support for the game but nothing had happened yet. Also a tutorial at the beginning of the game like that of “MGS: Peace Walker” it would have been defiantly handy, so that to understand the controls and the game system much more.

Other than that well I am very satisfied with this game and it has worth the money that I have spent on.  I will remember it as being one of the most enjoyable and greatest game that I have played till know on the PlayStation 3 Console and thats why it deserve 

10/10 SCORE

So hurry up what are you waiting for go near one of your retail shops or order it right now from the internet, as you will be defiantly disappointed that you have not played it yet.

General Information About The Game

Developer(s):  Kojima Productions

Developer Web site link: http://www.konami.jp/mgs4/global/index.html

Publisher(s): Konami

Director(s): Hideo Kojima,  Shuyo Murata

Producer(s): Hideo Kojima, Kenichiro Imaizumi

Artist(s): Yoji Shinkawa (character designer)

Writer(s): Hideo Kojima, Shuyo Murata

Composer(s):  Harry Gregson-Williams, Nobuko Toda

Series: Metal Gear

Engine: In-house engine

Platform(s): PlayStation 3

Release date(s): June 12, 2008

Genre(s): Stealth action, Third-person shooter

Mode(s): Single-player, multiplayer online (Metal Gear Online only, downloadable content)

Rating(s): BBFC: 15, CERO: D, ESRB: M, OFLC: MA 15+, OFLC: R16, PEGI: 18+, USK: 18

Media/distribution: Dual-layer Blu-ray Disc

System requirements:  4.6 GB HDD space

If you need any additional information about the game you can     visit: http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Wiki.