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    New Arkham City trailer (Batman!)

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by shinakuma9, Mar 16, 2011.

  1. shinakuma9

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    shinakuma9, Mar 16, 2011
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    Nice!!
    I like the new Batman flying skills.
     
    spradhan01, Mar 16, 2011
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    I haven't even finished the first one yet.
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 16, 2011
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    Great trailer, this is gonna be on my wishlist for sure
     
    trvelbug, Mar 16, 2011
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    I can't wait for this, I loved Batman: Arkham Asylum.
     
    crash, Mar 17, 2011
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    Nice trailer except for the horrible music. I had to mute it and play Hans zimmer - molossus. Then it was watchable.
     
    smood, Mar 17, 2011
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    horrible music = impressive ???
     
    spradhan01, Mar 17, 2011
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    Trailer looks sluggish, but if the game can run smooth, it looks like it will be a fun game.
     
    Megacharge, Mar 17, 2011
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    Hate to disagree with you, but great song, that fits the Batman genre perfect. Was also used at the end of The Rock's last movie, "Faster", which was a pretty good flick.

    Name of song is "Short Change Hero" by Heavy !
     
    rdalev, Mar 17, 2011
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    Awesome trailer 5* ...however the music is god awful.

    Movie Soundtrack / Action-Symphony would of been much better ...

    /queue Matrix 2 soundtrack ^_^
     
    Voodooi, Mar 18, 2011
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    Well, at least the graphics will look impressive, and the supervillian cast is quite good. And I have to agree, terrible music for a Batman franchise.
     
    lozanogo, Mar 18, 2011
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    Yeah..............would rather the Devs. spend more money on a full Symphony Orchestra, than gameplay here too !
     
    rdalev, Mar 18, 2011
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    The music itself is not bad, but it really sounds strange to see a Batman franchise with such a music. After all, in 22 years we've had 6 batman movies and 4 cartoons series defining the 'expected' genre of music to be expected. If still not, play Batman:AA and you'll understand what I mean.
     
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    For the game, no. I've played AA. For a trailer like this its fine...
     
    shinakuma9, Mar 18, 2011
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    Whatever, it's a trailer. As long as the game doesn't have this music and I sincerely doubt it will I don't care.

    Trailer was a little slow but it's a slow game (that's the appeal) I'm just interested in seeing how they manage to do AA in a city.
     
    Hungry Man, Mar 18, 2011
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    With that said, I guess if Batman:AA followed in the path of all other Batman franchises,barring the last 2 Batman movies, it would be mediocre also !
     
    rdalev, Mar 18, 2011
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    Just glad they did away with the blue hue detective mode. Man, I gotta go back and finish the first game.
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 18, 2011
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    The first game was epic and one of the only games that I completed and more than once. I hear the sequel will be 5 times the size of the first one. I can't wait and I expect the GTX 485M with the i7-2630QM to handle it really well. I will definitely be buying this one. Some fans wish Rocksteady would do a Batman with the city as a sandbox like GTA IV but I don't know whether that would work or not.
     
    LaptopNut, Mar 19, 2011
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    Umm it will run amazing on anything. They already said they are running it on UE3 and if the first game ran well, 2nd will run great.

    There isn't any reason for them to increase the post processing and shader effects since the first game looked FANTASTIC.
     
    mushishi, Mar 19, 2011
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    It was really well optimised and did run great on all sorts of hardware but PhysX really killed performance unless it was disabled. Although the game looked great without, enabling that did make it look even better. I also expect they will strive to create an even better looking game simply because they are perfectionists.
     
    LaptopNut, Mar 19, 2011
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