ALMOST? bud it
WAS free roam, first of its kind. now im going to go on and tell yuo my diea's of a free roaming batman game. BATMAN AND ROBIN for ps1...that was almost PERFECT for batman. but if it were done...lets say for ps3(being realistic) id like where picking your OWN path may lead to different things, the possibilities are truley endless with batman.
a free raoming next gen batman game would put ANY GTA to
shame if it were done right, you would CONTROL batman, and YOU could use stealth, it doesnt have to be scripted, have a stealth or shadow meter, and you actually BEING batman, you would need to keep an eye out on the nightsky for a batsignal, then rush over there via grapple or batmobile. just think of the possibilities of what batman is, he is human, but has all the great toys, using the batgrapple MUCH liek the spiderweb will be unbelieveable FUN! because hes a regular guy, and YOU get to control him(if done right) another topic would be that
CAPE, it could be controlled, held up around you for helping your stealth
the graphics on the cape would make it look like a gigantic piece of cloth or whatever...think ALEX ROSS painting and how big and billowing that cape can be, and how beutiful it could look in a game...if you can imagine gliding up above rooftops with a GIGANTIC billowing cape
BEUTIFUL REAL graphics (much like Batman begins but having less animated character movements(more real).
IMAGINE this scene in a real video game...IN PLAY! looking over the city
running along rooftops in alleyways, just LISTENING....you hear a girl scream, there wouldnt be any pop ups or anything even, it would be ALL your control, gotham in your hands as batman....you rush to the girl in need, on the rooftops above you observe....trying to think of a way to ef this guy up messin with this lady....you throw a batarang at a window, fence or some random thing, and he runs for it....BUT he has the purse, you jump down, look at the lady and see if she is alright, she says yes, then backup to the rooftops(the criminal couldnt have gotten far) you jump across roofs and you see a man runnning is fastest, thats gotta be him...you stalk him atop the rooftops until he finally stops...maybe at his apartment, you could either just waait it out and smash through a window, or take him out right then and there.....now there would be OTHER ways of going about catching him, hell you could of snatched him right up from that alley way! THAT is how a petty crime should go down, there would be MANY MANY different scenario's, much liek spiderman 2 but WIDER and WAY more involveing...and everything is NON-LINEAR..how EVERYbody likes it especially me!
now SOMEbody needs to get this done...it could be game of the year, or game of the decade, who knows!!! and im REALLY thinking it should be done on PS3. and other next gen systems, that way the graphics will look outSTANDING while having a GIGANTIC gotham to free roam with an outstanding amount of replayability, almost never ending if DONE right......
we need to start a petition, becuase everyone has got all these FANTASTIC ideas in there head. Imagine just you in the gigantic batcave, you could use the computer ANYtime....you could have a costume vault with an array of past costumes and new ones, different variantions, you could actually PICK what gadgets and weapons batman can take out that night, endless amounts of possibilities....ENDLESS even more so than spiderman.
Be able to actually gain clues, FIGURE out crimes
USE your head! and the computer would help tremendously!
the time system in the game would be REAL time, it would take however long it takes before the sun raises, then report back to wayne manor, get some sleep to pass time, or even handle wayne enterprise buisness as serious mini games.... but once night rolls its head around, you can have the choice to take a breather....hey there could be a health bar, along with an intesity bar, and stanima bar. that may perfect your anger and performance upon criminals. you can go down to the cave via any secret entrance there is or could be in the game, you can go in the vault, go into a mode for batman suits, like colors (black grey, Blue gray, all black, yellow oval ect) you have an aray of utility belts, pouched, capsule....you can have the choice, your preparing to be batman as realisticly as it GETS, even pop a tylenol before heading out! He would show wear
thats the level of realism i want! and the game owuld be terribly LOOOONG, much like batman and robin for PS1, the game developers COULD have the choice to put a bigger plot into the fold maybe, or have it develop later on DEPENDING ON WHICH PATH YOU MAKE and how you EFFECT gotham!!!! HOW SWEET WOULD THAT BE!!! all in the mix dealing with this
his parents death, thinking about it sometimes, gives you the fight to go on and raises your meter.
How ironic would it be....Being that everyone lieks to claim that batman games always suck balls, that Batman"Legends" shall we call it, (just to fit in with every other legends game, lol) for Ps3 would be the best game of all time...heh
i could go on ALLLL NIGHT about this "dream" game, but im sure you guys dont want to read all of this!
I wish you were the lead desginer for that Batman Begins game.
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just add them in the game for us fella's who would LOVE to play as them! it WOULDNT be Rise of Sin tzu at allll, keep that in mind 
