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Batman Begins' weird PS2 game

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Local man reviews two Eurocom games in a row, or, birds keep making cameos in my voice recording, or, Batman Begins: The Game, or, local man never knows what to write here

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"Game Boy Advance Longplay [045] Batman Begins"
Game Boy Advance Longplay [045] Batman Begins
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0:00 A really promising tutorial
2:03 Bespoke Post
3:17 EA, Eurocom, pre-release marketing, and an incredible cast
5:45 Outlining the game and the first things you notice
8:42 The fear system they keep talking about
10:28 Batman Begins: A How-To Guide by minimme, or, the combat
13:41 Extreme linearity and goofy animations
16:10 Good vibes and great potential
18:11 What's up with this voice acting?
19:11 Strong ending, strong enemy chatter
20:21 The Batmobile, and reasons this game feels unfinished
23:43 Obligatory mention of the Arkham games
24:39 Closing thoughts and outro

20 Comments

@minimme Creator 2 years ago Pinned

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@qew_Nemo 2 years ago

You don't understand, Batman climbs ladders this way on purpose, to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies.

@Pyke64 2 years ago

Oh my God Batman just crashed into a bus full of children at 150mph. Oh nevermind, it says there were no casulaties.

@braxton4999 2 years ago (edited)

Batman’s animations are reused from a game Called Sphinx and the cursed mummy from 2003. They reused them. The running, jumping , idle, and ladder climbing animations. The spihinx game even had a Batman model inside the games files. Eurocom just reused them for this game.

@MrMobista 2 years ago

I can remember playing this over and over on the OG Xbox. I'll maintain forever that this was the best Batman game we got until Arkham Asylum came out.

@BalletRosesOfficial 2 years ago

Cillian Murphy getting into and having fun with the voice acting is awesome lol

@Smansteel 2 years ago

This game walked so the Arkham series could run!

@asdfreii 2 years ago

Batman’s parents died when he was a child. Most tragically he had to teach himself how to climb ladders. I think he’s doing well considering.

@IamNOVAone 2 years ago

There was originally supposed to be a sequel to this game being a Dark knight tie in game but it was ultimately cancelled when licensing rights expired and in return we ended up getting Arkham asylum instead. Don’t get me wrong I love the Arkham series but I also wonder what that Dark Knight game might have been like.

@BottleCityStudios 2 years ago

The clip of Michael Caine asking for a copy of the game has always stuck with me and I always hoped against hope that he went through with it.

@juarezamorim 2 years ago

I love those Renderware models from Batman Begins, it's peak art direction.

@longplayarchive 2 years ago

Thanks for using and crediting our footage. Nice review!

@Evenmorecasey 2 years ago

Another certified hood classic.

@cruisinobscurae3274 2 years ago

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@Danominator 2 years ago

I like how mini keeps calling Henri Ducard "Liam Neeson". Sometimes he just refers to characters by their voice actor and something about that is inherently funny to me

@unbearifiedbear1885 2 years ago

Mad to think the film came out only a few years after PS2.. in my mind, PS2 feels wayyy older than the Batman reboot

crazy how time and memory play tricks like that!

@zwete 2 years ago

They’re following Nolan’s vision on sound mixing I guess

@huzi990 2 years ago

I don't know why but that ladder climbing animation made me think that would be how the College Humor Badman would move around.

@connorottem5767 2 years ago

I have a soft spot for this game. I remember getting sucked into its atmosphere and it was one of the first "dark" Batman media I experienced. It's kinda funny going back because there are some ideas that Arkham took and improved upon, such as stealth and the use of fear to fight armed enemies. Begins never really develops those ideas beyond linear setpieces, but Arkham would take those same concepts and refine them into actual gameplay mechanics. For what it is though and the time period it came out, I still think Begins is a fairly solid game, and it's at least somewhat better than a lot of other licensed games from that era.

@Jakewake52 2 years ago

One of the main things I remember from this was playing it in the living room and dying twice at a bit where theres some overheard enemy dialogue and it ends with with the woman they had captured screaming, and I thought the scream was from outside and when I had to redo that bit due to failing I kept thinking that two people just up the road were screaming so loud I couldnt hear the end of that convo and was annoyed