There are light shafts. I haven't seen evidence of them utilizing the more advanced motion blur skinning that Epic implemented, though from what I understand, their GPU iteration is too slow on RSX, and they haven't bothered with an SPU one. That said, I don't know if Rocksteady even uses the simpler rigid motion blur.
Batman: Arkham City [MultiPlatform]
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No motion blur of any sort in the game.
Get ready to pay for all the content that didn't come with your pre-order. I got the Robin pre-order at Best Buy. Looks like it was the better deal. Unfortunately I don't think any of alternate costumes work in the single-player. Anybody know for sure?
Tommy McClain
http://kotaku.com/5852498/a-guide-to-batmans-arkham-city-wardrobe/gallery/1
Tommy McClain
http://kotaku.com/5852498/a-guide-to-batmans-arkham-city-wardrobe/gallery/1
hm... yeah, got some shots of it. Definitely subtle. Probably just so that it doesn't get too distracting during combat.
Sigfried1977
Legend
The only skin I'd be willing (begrudgingly so, but still) to pay for would be a Batman skin from the Nolan movies (partciularly the one from The Dark Knight. Love the more practical design philosophy behind those movies. I'm especially fond of the flexible neck portion). Does such a thing exist?
Looks like it's at the top of the UK charts for the launch week.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/62659/Batman-Takes-Over-UK-Charts
The previous one had one thing that bugged me...where you often had to walk around in batman vision to look for clues, which means missing out on the graphics. It wasn't as bad as having to play in black&white 80% of the time like in the last Splinter Cell game...but still annoying. Does the new one still do that?
Yes. Except for the parts where you play as Catwoman. Then you have to walk around in Catvision
To be fair, you don't need to do it quite as much as in the first game. Maybe that's down to the slightly more 'open-world' nature where much of the fun is had from traversing the city. But when you get to key points, it's advised to use the vision thing to scope out the badguys, etc.
To be fair, you don't need to do it quite as much as in the first game. Maybe that's down to the slightly more 'open-world' nature where much of the fun is had from traversing the city. But when you get to key points, it's advised to use the vision thing to scope out the badguys, etc.
I don't think I spent anywhere near as much time in the special vision modes. I did use it. I think being able to use the vision to mark riddler trophies on your map is a big help in that regard. You don't have to spend so much time rediscovering trophies you couldn't access at first because you were missing the appropriate gadget.
I also think the complexity of the map actually forces you to NOT use the vision all the time. In the vision mode you can see enemies, but it's hard to see their line of sight from walls, obstacles or other geometry. So you have to switch back and forth to see their position and then see if you're hidden, or find a covered route.
The navigation waypoint system doesn't guide you in Detective mode. So in order to get from point A to point B you have to turn off Detective mode. So I'll also agree you're not using the Detective mode as much as in the first game.
BTW, there's no Batman Begins or Dark Knight skins, but that would be cool, but considerin EA had the movie rights to the games I wouldn't hold my breath ever seeing it. The closest you could see it would be modders doing it on the PC.
Tommy McClain
BTW, there's no Batman Begins or Dark Knight skins, but that would be cool, but considerin EA had the movie rights to the games I wouldn't hold my breath ever seeing it. The closest you could see it would be modders doing it on the PC.
Tommy McClain
Still does hinder your ability to appreciate the world, but not like the first game as Scott said.
RenegadeRocks
Legend
Wo.....ooooW !!!!!! The graphics and art seems stellar here !
The graphics and art seems stellar here !
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That's kind of a huge spoiler, even the picture.
Anyways the game's story is......unexpected, so many things that you normally wont expect it to have.
Anyways the game's story is......unexpected, so many things that you normally wont expect it to have.
RenegadeRocks
Legend
Tagged it. Didn't realise while posting that it could spoils someone's game. I was too awed !
!Sigfried1977
Legend
Wo.....ooooW !!!!!!
I thought this was far and away the weakest looking part of the game to be honest. Looks flat, boring and rather poorly lit, like they really took the engine way out of its comfort zone. I think the visuals easily are at their best when you are zipping across rooftops. Locations like the Museum or the Subway look absolutely magnificent as well. Good thing then that 95% of the game takes place in places just like that.
Beaten the PS3 version yesterday. Still haven't noticed any screen tearing (I'm sure it's there, but it's so hard to notice it can only be deemed as irrelevant as far as I'm concerned). It's a slick looking game and, the occasional streaming judder aside, moves silky smooth.
Awesome ending, by the way. Unfortnately the main storyline is quite short. That's my only gripe with the game. It's packed with additional content, and some of it is actually very well done, but I'd have gladly sacrificed a whole bunch of the riddler stuff for a slightly meatier campaign.
I played a bunch of this game.
Having been a long time since I played AA and having started AC on hard, I was initially almost defeated by the enormously harder difficulty relative to AA. It seriously took me an hour to get past the courthouse bit. Soon after, I got a couple levels though and once I had a couple armor upgrades, critical strikes, and the thing where you can use special moves at 5x the difficulty dropped dramatically to the point that the hard fights are a challenge, but I can usually just blow the cannon fodder away.
Really enjoying it so far. I'll probably play more this weekend.
For anyone who ordered from Best Buy, does the Robin DLC include gameplay changes? It wasn't clear to me how it all worked.
Honestly, the pre-order bonus crap in this game is one of the most sickening piles of garbage I have ever had to deal with in a game. If the core game weren't so good, I would probably have not bought it just on principal on how huge of a dick move the entire thing was. I really hope the publishers don't take good sales of AC to be a validation of this sort of crap. There's really no excuse for such blatantly anti-consumer behavior.
Having been a long time since I played AA and having started AC on hard, I was initially almost defeated by the enormously harder difficulty relative to AA. It seriously took me an hour to get past the courthouse bit. Soon after, I got a couple levels though and once I had a couple armor upgrades, critical strikes, and the thing where you can use special moves at 5x the difficulty dropped dramatically to the point that the hard fights are a challenge, but I can usually just blow the cannon fodder away.
Really enjoying it so far. I'll probably play more this weekend.
For anyone who ordered from Best Buy, does the Robin DLC include gameplay changes? It wasn't clear to me how it all worked.
Honestly, the pre-order bonus crap in this game is one of the most sickening piles of garbage I have ever had to deal with in a game. If the core game weren't so good, I would probably have not bought it just on principal on how huge of a dick move the entire thing was. I really hope the publishers don't take good sales of AC to be a validation of this sort of crap. There's really no excuse for such blatantly anti-consumer behavior.
Sigfried1977
Legend
I think you can only use Robin in the challenges, and just like Catwoman, he's not quite as versatile as the bat.
