Birth of a Nation. Aaron “Boondocks” Macgruder wrote it. (I wasn’t hugely impressed, despite being a big ‘ol fan of both creators 99% of the time.)

Weird, I remember doing things differently on my various playthroughs and not having such a linear experience. Maybe I was just having too much fun scaring people and punching them out and stuff!

“Did the isometric 3d Batman from the 80s (about 1986?) make it to America?

Granted its not much by today’s standards, but at the time is was pretty awesome.”

Ha, is that the one where you have to piece the Batmobile back together again? I remember that. Also, this one was excellent.

Oh, I think the Batman Begins game is a lot better than people give it credit for

Ugh. No. It was awful. Easily the most linear game I’ve ever played, which is sad enough– everything has to be done exactly the same way every time or you fail immediately, period. Boring and no fun. I want my five dollars back.

Granted its not much by today’s standards, but at the time is was pretty awesome.

I think that the problem with most GTA clones is that they try and mimic what GTA does but they don’t do it very *well*. GTA IV’s Liberty City feels like a real city, teeming with life. The problem is that most developers see the basic components of a free-roam game – open environments, lots of NPCs, and some scattered missions – and toss that onto their game with none of the heart or style of GTA, leaving the game world feeling shallow and empty. Spider-Man 2 was probably one of the better movie-to-game adaptations, but even this suffers from that quite a bit.

If a developer could translate Rockstar’s design theory to a city as iconic as Gotham, and make the gameplay engaging, varied, and fun to play, I think a free-roam Batman game would be pretty amazing. That said, a well-done level based game would be pretty solid as well.

-M

I dunno.

I’m drunk and had too many pills than is normally considered healthy, so the point of my post mayhaps has been lost.

I think I may have had a point though.

Haha, thanks. I still have nightmares about wires and plugs though

“but I got sick of the Warworld level”

….oh my, i forgot about that. awful stuff. mind you, there’s a fight against someone later in the game that multiplies himself (can’t remember who) and winning it seems entirely down to pure chance.

I thought the best part of the game was the final boss, but most people seem to hate that bit. i thought it was genuinely exciting and wished they’d done more of the game like that (i won’t spoil it, in case anyone out there doesn’t know and wants to play it for some insane reason).

The sensation of flying, speed and just plain out being cool floating in the clouds is amazing….until you realise there’s little else to do. GTA clone-itus with its free roaming badly rendered empty cities strikes again!

I hate game developers.