From: Electronic Arts Average Rating: Binding: Video Game ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Electronic Arts Model: 14633149067 Number of Items: 1 Platform: PlayStation2 Release Date: June 07, 2005
Features:
Batman Begins challenges players to use fear as their ultimate weapon
Gamers must use their environment, from scaling buildings and soaring between rooftops
brings gamers into the Batman universe, allowing them to experience the origins of the Dark Knight as both Bruce Wayne and Batman
Scale buildings and soar between rooftops as you explore an interactive Gotham City and pick off prey, one by one
Use the Utility Belt's high-tech crime fighting gadgets -- the Batgrapple, Batarang, Optic Cables, Lock Picks and more -- combined with mixed martial arts combos to dominate Gotham City
Product Description: To be released on the same day as the highly-anticipated movie, Batman Begins follows the film as it explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city across 14 Gotham City locales.
Good movie tie-in I think this game has gotten a bad rap, and I really think it is a fun, worthwhile experience.
Pros: Great graphics that really capture the feeling of the movie and the comic book Gotham. Interesting story line which goes in and out of the movie. Varied gameplay (lots of different areas, moves, and sequences).
Cons: The game is pretty short. Virtually no replay value. You don't get to do much in the way of free exploring; you basically have to do what they tell you to when they tell you to.
All in all, a very enjoyable game with a great license.
Amazon is a great way to find old PS2 games My two boys are great fans of Batman and they just love this game. A little before their time but still a great game especially when you can get a like new copy cheap, something like $10.00.
THE BEST BATMAN GAME EVER I've been a Batman fan my whole life, and I've played every Batman-based video game ever made. So trust me when I say that the BATMAN BEGINS game adaptation is the best Bat-game ever. EVER.
Now, this comes from the Batfan, not from a die-hard gamer. I suppose that if you are more interested in a great gaming experience, then you might not be quite as high on this one as myself. However, if you, like me, have spent a large portion of your life wishing you could be Batman, then this game will more than satisfy you.
Never before has a game existed that so perfectly captures how Batman works (or rather WOULD work) in the real world. I guess it took a movie with the same concept behind it to pull it off.
In the BATMAN BEGINS game, it's not about incessant puzzle solving or endless fisticuffs. You don't have to spend hours just trying to complete and area or defeat a boss. In this game, you get to do...well, BATMAN stuff. You throw Batarangs. You sneak up and stealthily disarm opponents. You crawl around ceiling pipes and inside air ducts and use gas bombs and flash grenades and the freakin-awesome HFT. But most of all, you get to spend a lot of time scaring the crap out of your enemies, interrogating them, beating them, and leaving them regretting the day they ever crossed your point-eared path.
If you love or even like Batman, get this game. It rocks.
Much like EA's LOTR games, this looks and sounds great, but it's linear and tedious Splinter Cell without the freedom. Which is a bit odd way to classify this game as even tho there is some freedom in the SC series, most of the time it's basically sneak up and choke someone. Batman Begins follows a similar formula, only instead of waiting for the right moment to execute a move, the game simply tells you when to press the button, and then you watch.
Really that is what this game is about, the developers made a cool looking Batman videogame and want you to watch their non-interactive demo. Unfortunately EA's notoriously short deadlines forced the developers to hammer out some gameplay to go along with the spiffy graphics. The result feels exactly like that, a rushed contrived set of gampeplay pieces that really don't allow any freedom at all. The entire game feels like a staged demo of Alpha Code designed as a milestone for a project.
It's suggesting which way the gameplay could be handled. The problem is that is how the game unfolds from start to finish. Like a hint of an idea that would have been cool and this game is the tech demo to prove how cool it could be.
8 hours later when you're done w/ Batman Begins, the thought may sit there with you. "Man what a cool game this could someday be". Hopefully someone will pick up the slack w/ "The Dark Knight" game if that ever happens. They have some great ideas in BB, if only someone could make a fun, playable, cohesive game that allowed a bit more interaction than pressing the X button when the game instructs you to.
As Good As You Have Heard With tons of bad games based on movies being made, this is still one of the few that is actually really good. For the PS2, the graphcis are amazing. Even more than that, the game is really fun. It feels like a great Batman game more than a game based on the movie. overall, this is a must play. Awesome
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