What Would Batman Do?

I promise to review LEGO Batman: The Videogame tomorrow and convince you to buy it for your spoiled children for Chanukah.  Until then, marvel at the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum (insert marveling emoticon).

Based on Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s best-selling graphic novel Arkham Asylum , the game will take you into DC’s most notorious insane asylum as He Who is Too Great to Be Named.   You (Batman) will return the Joker, Killer Croc, and Poison Ivy to their cells, and have an amazing time — assuming that this particular Batman game is unlike almost every other one, which suck balls (insert — oh, never mind).

But I’m optimistic.  Eidos of Tomb Raider and Hitman fame is on board to produce this, and they’ve had a pretty decent track record lately (i.e., I’m not counting the past ten years of crappy Tomb Raider games).  Paul Dini is writing the script, and Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy will be lending their voice talents.  This is good news.

And if the actual gameplay stacks up anywhere near to these beautiful graphics, Batman: Arkham Asylum may just be the game that forces me to buy a next-gen console.

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