I've always kinda hoped that any Batman game would incorporate some sort of Sierra/Lucas Arts style puzzle adventuring.

Don't get me wrong I'm not looking for a Kings Quest style Batman game, I just want something that reminds people that he's supposed to the "The Worlds Greatest Detective" instead of "The worlds greatest guy at punching nameless goons in the face and then having a few boss fights."

Give me an open area to explore and search for clues that will advance the story while I'm punching faces in.

Sadly I don't think I've ever played a game based in the DC universe that was worth the time it took to load it up, to say nothing of the mediocre Batman games.

Diddy_Mao

@TurtleSoup: "I was surrounded by people who fell asleep to it in the cinema as well!"

I think the atmosphere at the movies has a lot to do with how much you enjoy the movie.

A lot of us went to midnight showings where the people in the theater were out of their seats cheering when Joker did his "pencil trick".

If I went and saw it with a bunch of sleeping people, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it for that fact alone.

(Also, I think you are one of the first people I have seen who didn't like the movie that actually gave meaningful reasons instead of just saying "Uh, it was ghey".)

Tarutaru_Pantsu

@gothamdarkknight: Wah it would be awesome as a Sandbox game!

Better choice of Random missions then Spiderman stuff. Strong AI driven gangs rather than all scripted stuff - I can but dream!

And the wanted level thing is the thing that would be most awesome to base the game around - as said in the movie that he doesn't have to be a hero - he can be whatever Gotham needs.

That concept alone done properly could turn it into an awesome game!

TurtleSoup

@Miksho: I'm surprised I'm in the minority for this but no I really didn't actually rate the movie as much as I did Batman Begins.

I found it was overly long for the material it presented. I think the percentage of action scenes was a little low compared to everything else (I'm surprised to say that!). I preferred the look of Gotham in Batman Begins. It maybe needed some more light comic relief at points for its length as well.

The whole stupid voice that Bale puts on when he is Batman just got out of hand and I expect him to become good fodder for adverts for sore throat remedies. Its like Nolan and Bale have this thing since Batman & The Prestige that he must talk in a strange voice when they work together!

Maggie Gyllenhaal looked like she needed so much sleep she had turned into an old woman - not that her performance was bad but just because as an object of desire I expected her to look attractive. Strange as she is usually quite hot and maybe its just shallowness bred into me by other typical Hollywood movies.

Ledgers performance was good and as I said I liked the ending. The bit in Hong Kong was amusing when Edison Chan appeared everyone laughed - I watched it in Hong Kong and you'd have to know who he is etc.

I think the main issue I had with it is that it totally lost any air of 'mystery' to him the other films have. One friend described it as it just made him feel like James Bond in a silly suit too much which probably has some truth.

For example scenes like when he is sky hooked from Hong Kong they could have done more like the scene at the end in Batman Begins when he opens his cape leaving Liam Neeson to fall to his death. I think a lot of the camera angle and position choices weren't that great.

I didn't think it was a bad movie just not a great movie. I was surrounded by people who fell asleep to it in the cinema as well! I think tighter editing would have gone a long way.

TurtleSoup

The other problem would be if they did The Joker in it or not. I mean, a voice actor mimicking Ledger is possible... but it would feel cheap I guess.

@Touy:

But if the game played liked this, I don't think I would care.

Mookie

If I can't play as the Joker, they aren't getting a sale.

I'm a man of my word.

Tyber_Zann

I was just thinking about where a Dark Knight video game was while playing some Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Lately, almost all the big comic book movies seem to arbitrarily have a video game come out within a month of the movie's release.

Granted, most of them were crap, but they still came out. Hopefully they do the game justice. If the game developer devotes as much effort into the game as the movie's staff did, then it should be amazing.

Phlycheez

@Tarutaru_Pantsu: best comment i've heard in a while :)

smuai

@slyzxx786: What a pointless remark.

tyrannosaurus.drew

@Touy: Get this man a game development team.

Tarutaru_Pantsu

@slyzxx786: Any game period is a waste of time unless they take the time to develop it properly.

PollockRoc

Ehh any game made from a movie is a wasite of time unless they actually take the time to develop it properly. Considering how long it takes to make a movie,edit,promote they could have created the game ( btw its about a yr)

slyzxx786

@gothamdarkknight: Here's my pitch:

Runs on the Assassin's Creed engine, set in Nolan's stylized Chicago version of Gotham. Locomotion is handled with a combination of grappling gun, climbing, batmobile/pod and base jumping/gliding. Players are encouraged to use stealth, but can play it loud if they'd like/need to. Combat is much more fluid than Assassin's Creed, but still partially reversal based. Think along the lines of the finishers, but requiring more player input.

If you could do a better version of Spiderman's random crimes combined with, say... assassin's creed's interrogations (set up traps to dangle people from rooftops?), I would be all for it.

Then if you could do a sort of x-com style thing where you manage where the waynetech staff goes and what they're working on? Wow. I would buy that.

Touy

no game can match the awesomeness that was the movie.

maraxusofk

Well, it wouldn't take much to be better than the Batman Begins game that was basically just one long tutorial. You just kept waking forward until text came up telling you which button to push next THE WHOLE GAME, and they give you a batarang that you can use when a reticle pops up on the screen telling to to do so. So awful, why does DC still allow games of it's characters to be made by EA.

fearing

I can't imagine a Batman Game taht's sandbox.

Batman is wanted by the cops. You get a tank, but you're constantly on GTA 5 star level -___-

I mean his graple thing is pretty limited.

gothamdarkknight

@Sammo21: Nah, X-play is cool.

@TurtleSoup: Hmmm, interesting. Why didn't you like it? I'm not patronizing you; I'm genuinely interested (I and everyone I know absolutely loved it, so it's kindof hard to have an interesting conversation).

Spiffyness

A Dark Knight game? I don't know if I should be pleased or disgusted! The movie was amazing, and I would give a lot to play a game based off of it, but the ratio of good movie games to bad movie games is bad. Out of 15 bad ones, there's like 2 good ones. I hope this is one of those 2.

Amazon_Chris

"Batman: Non-Superhero who uses stealth and refuses to kill his enemies."

So Kojima Productions should make it.

Let's compare Batman and Metal Gear:
- Tons of crazy gadgets: check.
- Long, drawn out dialog: check.
- Sneaking and CQC over gunfire: check.
- Epic villains (Joker, Ocelot): check.
- Overly scratchy main character voices: check.

It's perfect! Sorry CliffyB.

Tarutaru_Pantsu

@TurtleSoup: I can't tell if you're flamebait, or just the only person I've ever encountered who didn't like TDK. Either way, keep doing your thing. Unless it's the first thing.

Miksho

I would love a decent free roaming sandbox Batman game... shame the latest movie was mostly meh... although the ending did rescue it a little

TurtleSoup

Oh, this just reminded me that I haven't seen The Fifth Element in a long time. Gary Oldman is an excellent actor. Léon, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lost in Space, the Batman films; even if the movie he's in is mediocre, you can at least know his performance will make it semi-viewable. Truly, a very talented man.

As for the game, well, at least we know it exists. Will it have a Burnout inspired chase scene featuring Batman on his motorcycle chasing The Joker? By the way, that chase scene was great in The Dark Knight. I have to see that film again.

KeroseneClimax

@Sammo21: @QualityJeverage: Ahahaha XD Ok you guys got me there. I did just return from the emergency room (hockey puck busted my head open) What I ment is Batman should use the unreal 3 engine. I guess for a second there I thought epic made other games besides shooters... Damn these painkillers work good ;)

Gunloc

@Gunloc: How the hell does Batman fit Epic?

Epic's Portfolio: Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, etc. Games about big guys, big guns, chainsaws, and chaotic battles.

Batman: Non-Superhero who uses stealth and refuses to kill his enemies.

Unless this was a Pinball Batman game, I don't see how Epic would be the right choice.

QualityJeverage

@Sammo21:

great multiplayer? We are talking about the Gears of War people right? :x

Hitokiri151

@Gunloc:
A shooter with great multiplayer, terrible single player, and horrific storytelling and writing? I'm confused....

Sammo21

I'm hoping this will be sandbox like GTA, except with a much greater vertical focus. Climbing buildings gliding and whatnot. And I really really really really want to drive the batmobile. That thing is hot!

JokesJokes

Sweet! A new 5th element game? oh wait...

amost

@vashthestampede: Indeed, every one of his characters is great.

What do you mean, every one?

EVERYONE!!!!!

Kyattsuai

Pandemic, eh? They've made decent stuff.

Wolfers

"It's light. Handle's adjustable for easy carrying, good for righties and lefties. Breaks down into four parts, undetectable by x-ray, ideal for quick, discreet interventions. A word on firepower. Titanium recharger, three thousand round clip with bursts of three to three hundred, and with the Replay button - another Zorg invention - it's even easier."

Foggynotion

I wish epic was making this game because in my mind batman just fits their style. Please don't rush this game cause we already have enough crapy superhero games.

Gunloc

OMG Movie Game!!!! YAY...................

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg announcing a Batman game! Oh happy day!

flashadams

I love the Fifth Element, great flick

Noks415

@vashthestampede:

I agree. Oldman is consistently great. Loved Dark Knight

LittleBigPlaneteer

@Al2x: Gary Oldman was great in just about anything he's ever done. I love that guy.

vashthestampede

@sictransitgloria:
G4 in its entirety is terrible, lol.

Sammo21

Kristen Holt is horrible.

sictransitgloria

1. I hope they don't mess this us. Though it's a movie-based game off an incredible movie, it's still a movie-based game.

2. There is nothing I want more than to play as the Joker.

That is all.

idkmybffgreg

Hmm, why didn't it coincide with the release of the actual movie? That shit would have raked in crazy sales, much like the Iron Man game.

Aethyr

Since its not already out im assuming it will be released in time for the DVD release of the movie.

hk458

It's been said it's release coincides with the DVD release for Dark Knight.

Fadakar

Oldman was a great actor in the Dark Knight, movie was sick. Hope the game will be great, it'll definitely be at least a rent in my book if it's done by Pandemic.

Al2x

Cool?

minimelo321

Batman Begins was basically Splinter Cell Lite and considering we haven't heard a single thing about a game that is rumored to come out at the end of the year/early next year if it does coincide with the DVD release, I'm not expecting big things.

Forkball

Oh yeah, did anyone notice at all that maybe some people who worked on this movie had played MGS3? The end is tonally very similar, and former Media Ventures composer Gregson Williams can and does sound like Hans Zimmer sometimes. But from the skyhook bit to the last final moments which seem to be oddly emotionally similar to MGS3 to me...

otakuhouse

Especially if said game was a sandbox game.

otakuhouse

Not only is Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg on my kotaku, now I find out that THERE'S A DARK KNIGHT GAME COMING.

I know this does no one any good, but I would buy a Dark Knight game even if it sucked and was a piece of shit licensed crap just to fuck shit up with some bat gadgets for a few minutes in that world.

otakuhouse

WAIT HOLD ON A MINUTE

so you are saying ZORG.. is the same guy who played commish gordon?!? how did that one slip by me?

wfreiden

Oddly, I heard the game was canceled back in April - which seemed to be accurate enough with no game to speak of in sight leading up to the Dark Knight release.

Fallible

@TurtleSoup:
Welcome to Hong Kong?

gothamdarkknight

Thank God for something of an official announcement. I remember the story nearly two years ago that Pandemic had gotten the rights early so they could have a proper dev cycle and actually make a good Batman game.

When I was watching the movie, I couild easily see several parts that would work in a game. The Hong Kong scene, the final confrontation with the Joker, etc.

JAcK0R

Please give me a cool open world BATMAN game...someone...anyone.

-EDGE-

@-EDGE-: how cool would that be!

The movie was amazing, if they can do anything even close to that like a game, they would have a winner

Satis24

I don't care what the reviewers said, I thoroughly enjoyed the Batman Begins game, enough to beat it four times. If they can at least attempt to make this game as great as the movie, I'd break one of my rules of waiting for a price drop and buy it as soon as it comes out. If Pandemic is attached, all the better.

kylo4

Just hope the game is an orgy like the movie.

Para

@Tarutaru_Pantsu: Actually one of my friends was amongst those who fell asleep who was quite enjoying it at first but it just went on too long for him! :)

TurtleSoup

@gothamdarkknight: A few years late but thanks ;)

TurtleSoup

@Gunloc:

Dark, gritty, and awesome?

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

Why don't my posts show?

Graizur

This game can't go wrong.

Oh how much I wish tat was a true statement.

Graizur

mmm Milla Jovovich mmm

Lukems

Pandemic's a nice fit, but I can't help but wonder what a developer like Bioware might do with VO talent like Oldman, Freeman, Caine and co...

I mean, besides poppin giant "emotional gameplay" boners.

BruzeWayne

right now, the only TDK game is going over to IMDB/IRONMAN boards and posting "TDK vs. Ironman" threads over and over.

you get

50 points for "That's just your opinion!"
100 points for "...troll..."
250 points for "DIAF"
500 points for "Did we really need another thread?"

rainofwalrus

Check this out. Mr. T navigating Batman, The Dark Knight. Funny Stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGHwdJUjdI

WolframNerpy

@Sammo21: Disagree. G4 is a welcome channel on DirecTV package solely for showing Ninja Warrior and other, more bizarre Japanese gameshows. I challenge you to find better drunken viewing material.

A decade ago, the women of G4 would have provided an adolescent Jonaconda with some top-notch masturbatory material as well, but that was in the dark days before internet pornography became widely available and stealing black-and-white underwear ads in the newspaper for prurient pursuits was commonplace....

...Kids these days don't know how good they got it.

Having said that, I'm looking forward to a TDK game. The movie alone will make me spring for a Bluray player when it's released, so I'll finally complete my console trinity with a PS3 by then.

Jonaconda

This franchise needs an awesome game, I hope they spend some time on it and make it good. The best batman game would be similar to Assassins Creed with a glide mechanic, gosh that game would be sweet.

MavTrav

They probably had to redo all the audio with a new actor for Joker's parts so the project was pushed back.

gackto

it's going to suck just as much as the batman begins game--or any other movie based game.

gackto

I was wondering why there wasn't any news on a game.

believable_liar

What is this? A game not rushed for release with the movie? Is it April 1st?

mablung