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I should have read the on-line reviews before purchasing but the premise sounded good and the price was right. Maybe one day they will make a super hero video game that pleases.

There are several minues and very few pluses when it comes to this disapointing game. I walked away from my first several days of playing it feeling that the programers didn't like me.

MINUES
- The camera angels are awkward.
- The graphics are clumsy and inelegant
- Moving between Bat-gear devices is ridiculously difficult yet the action (when it happens) is fast.
- Batman's moves are limited. Punch and kick and jump and run. For a character that is supposed to be a martial arts expert I was surprised by this lack of fighting options.
- The menus are non-intuitive. Trying to figure out what menu option does what is not my idea of fun.
- The scene changes are long and it is too easy to get 'sucked' into the previous scene.
- Many of the missions are difficult without being actually challenging. Mission two has Batman swinging from building to building. No real skill is involved, just trial and error. The character falls off the building very easily because it is very difficult to determine where he is due to camera angles.
- The 'story' is uninteresting and fails to address the noir style of the comics.

Pluses
- Some of the 'film' scenes are well done. The Gordon character in particular is fairly compelling.
- Inexpensive so even if one doesn't enjoy the play it is not such a huge loss.

The only thing good about it were the cut-scenes(which they used to sell the game). The game-play sucked. Try swinging from the roofs in the first level. Hell, the first fight after the great cut-scene before it tells you what you're in for, CRAP! Don't waste your time or money. Go for Vengeance or Rise Of Sin Tzu.

first of all, the camra sux, second u can't even kill the bad guys, u have to hit them to them to the ground and arrest them. this is really hard when a bunch of guys are u. they should sell this game for 1 buck, even then people wouldn't buy it. i bought this game thinking it would be like rise of sin zu...i was wrong. unlike batman rise of sin zu, it dosent have 2 player cooperative...don't buy it