Release Date: 5/29/2012 Category: Action Number of Players: 1 UPC: 883929240708
Batman: Arkham City -- Game of the Year Edition : PlayStation 3 Description
Developer Rocksteady Studios returns players to its dark vision of Gotham, where the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane has been replaced with a walled-off expanse of city streets and abandoned buildings, ruled only by deadly mad anarchy. From a familiar third-person perspective, players resume the single-player role of Batman, for missions of infiltration, assault, recovery, and rescue. Gruesomely outnumbered, the hero's survival still relies largely on stealthy ninja tactics, although open environments occasionally call for cape-aided hang-gliding or grappling-hook acrobatics.
Expanded Description Developer Rocksteady Studios returns players to its dark vision of Gotham, where the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane has been replaced with a walled-off expanse of city streets and abandoned buildings, ruled only by deadly mad anarchy. From a familiar third-person perspective, players resume the single-player role of Batman, for missions of infiltration, assault, recovery, and rescue. Gruesomely outnumbered, the hero's survival still relies largely on stealthy ninja tactics, although open environments occasionally call for cape-aided hang-gliding or grappling-hook acrobatics.
Although the territory of the new Arkham City is nearly five times larger than the old asylum grounds, Batman's path is sometimes limited by outbursts of gang warfare, usually best avoided. The game also regularly presents puzzles for the Dark Knight to solve, in the gadget-enhanced "Detective Mode." The combat system has been refined, allowing Batman to counter attacks from multiple opponents at once, and to access his gadgets in the middle of a fight.
Set only a year after the events of Arkham Asylum, the game's story begins with Quincy Sharp, the former warden who is now mayor of Gotham City. His plan -- to shut down the asylum, move the inmates to a walled in section of city slums, and hire private security to guard the new borders -- has created a zone of pure lawlessness in the heart of Gotham. It is a city within a city, where inmates are free to roam the streets, stealing and killing as they wish, so long as they do not attempt to escape.
Control of this urban wasteland is now contested by two rival gangs: one led by the Joker, with the help of Harley Quinn, and the other by Two Face, who has called for the public execution of Catwoman -- much to the delight of the other bloodthirsty residents. Side-stories involve more of Arkham's most famously devious and demented recidivists, including Mr. Freeze, the Penguin, Poison Ivy, and the Riddler. Kevin Conroy again voices Batman, with Mark Hamill as the Joker.
This "Game of the Year Edition" offers PS3 players the full original game, "Harley Quinn's Revenge" DLC, and a variety of other DLC packs, adding seven new maps, three playable characters, and 12 new skins in all.
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Special Features
Game Special Features
Resume the role of the Dark Knight, to enforce justice with stealth tactics and violent combat
Venture into a lawless sector of Gotham City, ruled by Arkham's most devious and deadly criminals
Think like the Batman to solve twisted new environmental puzzles in "Detective Mode"
Includes previously released DLC that adds new maps, characters, and skins
Control Elements Gamepad/Joystick
ControlInstruction GAME CONTROLS: Left Analog Stick = move; Right Analog Stick = look around; Hold X Button/X Button, X Button = run/evade; Square Button = strike; Circle Button = cape stun; Triangle Button = counter; L2 Button = detective mode; R1 Button = grapnel gun/use gadget; Hold L1 Button = aim gadget; Tap L1 Button = quickfire batarang; R2 Button = crouch; D-Pad Left, Right, Up, Down = select gadget; Select Button = waynetech; Start Button = pause; L3 Button = center camera; R3 Button = zoom; QUICKFIRE GADGETS CONTROLS TYPE A; Tap L1 Button = quickfire batarang; L1 Button + Triangle Button = quickfire batclaw; L1 Button + Square Button = quickfire explosive gel; L1 Button + Circle Button = quickfire rec; R2 Button, R2 Button = quickfire freeze blast; QUICKFIRE GADGETS CONTROLS TYPE B; Tap L2 Button = quickfire batarang; L2 Button + Triangle Button = quickfire batclaw; L2 Button + Square Button = quickfire explosive gel; L3 Button + Circle Button = quickfire rec; R2 Button, R2 Button = quickfire freeze blast; REMOTE CONTROLLED BATARANG CONTROLS; R2 Button = auto level; L1 Button = brake; R1 Button = boost; L1 Button + R1 Button = u-turn; CATWOMAN CONTROLS; Left Analog Stick = move; Right Analog Stick = look around; Hold X Button/X Button, X Button = run/evade; Square Button = strike; Circle Button = whip stun; Triangle Button = counter; L2 Button = thief vision; R1 Button = climb/use gadget; Hold L1 Button = aim gadget; Tap L1 Button = quickfire whip; R2 Button = crouch; D-Pad Left, Right, Up, Down = select gadget; Select Button = waynetech; Start Button = pause; L3 Button = center camera; R3 Button = zoom
Batman: Arkham City -- Game of the Year Edition : PlayStation 3
