Next time they should go with free roam.

[Spidey 2007]

lol, why must everyone post NOW, WTF i say, ...go on about your lives and talk about how bad superman 64 was.....

 

[krizzzle]

One thing I would like is that you could play the entire Batman experience.

LEVELS
Bruce Wayne
The first levels should be Bruce's travel through the world, you have a chance to roam an entire country. What you do could impact the entire game. You could go to a retired thief and learn lockpicking, if you choose not to, you won't be able to acsess somethings in the game! You could learn all the types of martial arts which will let make you a more advanced fighter! The more you learn the more you will have options to do.



Gotham City

After training Bruce returns to Gotham. Everytime night Bruce goes out. Now the players get to take all the fighting techniques they know and put them to use. Imagine walking down an aley and seeing two guys raping a woman. You spring into action! If you had trained, the thugs will be no problem, but if you took the easy way out every fight will be hard. Now, one of the thugs pulls out a knife, if you had learned proper defence you will be able to dodge the knife. The player beats up the thugs and continues roaming through the dark streets of Gotham.



The Batman

After a while Bruce realizes he needs something more. Thus he becomes The Batman. You know have the option of using the rooftops! This opens a whole other world to the game. You can now use fear and swoop down on foes. Since this is the early Batman you will have few gadgets such as Batarangs, a grapple, and the bat calling device. You will also have the police on your tale. After a while you hear that a crazed maniac is trying to poison Gotham. You search for clues, interogate criminals etc. You eventually find the criminal mastermind The Joker is behind it all! You stop the criminal. This gets you a reputation. The cops like you, and the criminals fear you. You meet many criminals such as Catwoman, The Riddler, The Penguin and Mr. Freeze. Eventually you will build the Batmobile and unlock the option of driving to the crime sceene. You can aslo play through different classic stories such as Year One, The Long Halloween etc.

Dick Grayson
After fighting crime for a while players will see a cutscene of Dick's parents dying. Then the players will get a chance to train Dick however they choose to. Then Dick mounts the mantel and you get to play as both characters. You can switch through them anytime you want! Dick may not be as strong as Batman but is much more acrobatic. This will allow you to go to places you couldn't before. You will get to follow different stories and eventually Dick will quit and the player will be alone for now.

Jason Todd
After fighting crime alone for a few levels, players will follow the classic story: "A Death In The Familly". Players will have to play mostly as Jason Todd but will still be allowed to play as Batman. Eventually Jason will die and Batman will get stronger every time he fights The Joker.

Other Heroes
Eventually you will unlock other heroes such as Batgirl, Nightwing, Tim Drake and Huntress. You will get the chance to play as them but sometimes you wont. For example after you follow The Killing Joke story you won't be able to play as Batgirl.

Free Roam
Gotham is yours. You decide what happens. You decide who you control. You are in control.


GAMEPLAY


Story
You will get to play through the classic Batman stories such as Year One, The Long Halloween, Haunted Knight, A Death In The Familly, Hush etc. This will be the only way to unlock other characters and certain extras!

More Than One Path
There will always be more than one way to complete a level. For example when facing The Joker you can go ahead and beat him. You have a risk of getting shot or hit with his acid and he could escape. But what you could do is you take away his weapons using Batarangs, you sweep down on him and fight as he weakens.

Heroes

• Robin (Dick Grayson)

• Catwoman

• Robin (Jason Todd)

• Batgirl (Barbara Gordon

• Nightwing

• Robin (Tim Drake)

• Huntress

• Batgirl (Cassandra)

Villians

• The Joker

• Catwoman

• Two-Face

• The Penguin

• Mad Hatter

• The Riddler

• Mr. Freeze

• Poison Ivy

• Bane

• Mr. Zssaz

• Scareface and The Ventriluquest

• Ra's Al Ghul
• Carmine Falcone
  • Hush

• Scarecrow
• Black Mask
• Killer Crock
• Holiday

The Batcave



You can always go to the batcave. There you will be healed by Alfred, you can look at criminal files to help you solve crimes, you can change costumes or The Batmobile.

Costumes
As you progress you will unlock different costumes! You can go to the batcave anytime and choose a costume.

The Batmobile
Each car will have certain disadvantages and advantages. For example, the 90's car is very fast and has a battering ram but isn't very defensive.

Stealth
Stealth will be very much like Splinter Cell. You will be able to sneak, peek behind doors and walls etc.

Fighting
What ever you learned in the begginig of the game will stay with you. If you learn a lot of defence you will be able to block a knife with your hands! If you learn a lot of Tae-Kwan-Do you will be able to deliver poweful kicks!

Are you joking me dude? this is complete utter crap. My neighbors 8 year old ******ed son can think of better ideas then this. "Go to the batcave and get healed by Alfred" if you " learn tae-kawn-do your kicks are more powerful ". This crap is pure gayness. Only an 11 year old dumb-ass who has been oppressed by living under a queer dad and a dime a screw mother would think of such ideas like these.



P.S

You guy need to read Spidey 2007's post's. They are long but they got some serious substance. I would not be surprised if that kid gets a job in the gaming biz. His ideas are awesome.

 

[TheShadow]

thats kinda harsh now isnt it?

 

[GL1]

Are you joking me dude? this is complete utter crap. My neighbors 8 year old ******ed son can think of better ideas then this. "Go to the batcave and get healed by Alfred" if you " learn tae-kawn-do your kicks are more powerful ". This crap is pure gayness. Only an 11 year old dumb-ass who has been oppressed by living under a queer dad and a dime a screw mother would think of such ideas like these.

Way uncool. Way.

 

[GL1]

My Batman game would center on three experiences:

Combat
With a fighting system more akin to a fighting game than an action one, with a handy lock on mechanism, you have access to a plethora of great moves as well as a plethora of free-form on the fly group oriented combos as you leap into large rooms full of unlucky evildoers and open large cans of whoopage. Of course, thugs come in all shapes and sizes, and you'll never know when someone might pull out a gun, or a crowbar, or some kung fu... all crowbar weilders don't wear the same jacket, that's for sure...

Detective Work
This is where RPG aspects would come in... while each "case" (think levels, but free roam around all of gotham city) would have a beat-em up combat path to win, it would also have a detective work path to open up the 'final conflict.' Batman when pressing the black button the x-box, or perhaps L2 on the PS2, would go into detective mode... from here he would have access to various intimidation "attacks" and an action button used to sample clues, open/investigate/examine items of interest and a talk button with branching (multiple choice) conversations for parlaying with police, victims, commisioner gordon, etc, etc... and of course, a Bat-Journal for keeping track of your clues, evidence and implications... complete with detective-show like flashbackish "visions" of how the crime could have occured as you put things together...

Stealth and Atmosphere
Batman is all about his environment... he's all about stealth, and even though players want that to be a big deal, most DON'T want it to interfere with them treating Batman like a brawler... which is fine and doable... make the highways dark... the obvious and most easy paths through Gotham (for Bats anyway) are dark alleys and rooftops, easily traversed... the bright populated areas of gotham cut off by good game design, though still visitable, especially later... Give players points and "XPee" for fading away without sight after a conversation, or taking out 9 thugs without being seen and then appearing before the tenth one... make it a big deal, without making it a burden... allow the player Splinter-Cell like Stealth ways to complete missions within a case as well, flicking switches, taking advantage of the environment, and otherwise not having to lay a finger on anyone and switching the final fight in your favor... (or at least onto even footing)...

this gives the player THREE ways to play the game... using one will be fun, but using them all at once brings the most success and bonuses for getting all the bonus objectives...

Sub-Games (The details that take it from being a great game to being a classic experience)

Bruce Wayne -- By taking the batpole upwards you access some Bruce Wayne gameplay... parties, dates and business. Though these might seem like minigames (which are not uncommon nowadays)... business serves as a way to get new equipment for your character, parties serve as a way to get top-down information on what's happening all over gotham and dates, well... they're just fun...

Driving -- Top notch. Realistic Physics, trick out your handling, acceleration and top speed, several 'tracks' and 'obstacle courses' are cleverly built into the city and are used for chase sequences at certain parts of the game, regardless, the Vehicle can be used at any time, it's just that driving it on the street attracts police attention... the vehicle has a stealth mode of course... Brucey can also drive the rolls royce around the city...

Prep-Time
No Batman game is complete without it... Prep-time is really a fusion of the options screen with the detective game as 'fuel' but as you develop info on your perp or the people you are going to assail, you'll get suggestions on what to equip against them in the bat-belt and tumbler loading screens. Furthermore, as you press on against each unstoppable clayface (each one possesing less weakness and more power than the one before it, well, all except the dud...) you begin to master the system which Batman uses to take out people like Bane, Superman and his writers... Prop time also includes a preview fight mode with dream-sequence borders as you test out your combat tactic 'in your mind' before you leave the cave with your items...

Storyline -- This will be THE Ultimate Joker story. The game will be titled the same as the movie sequel to Batman Begins... and like most videogames it will adopt the tale of the movie, but this game will add in levels and storyline based on the comics... The Killing Joke, Mad Love, The Man Whole Laughs (that the one with the fish, right?), A Joker Christmas, Dark Victory, The Long Halloween, ALL of these will be taken into account in this story. The Joker will play a huge part. Harvey Dent and later Two Face will play a huge part. Falcone. Even little Grayson and Barb Gordon will make meaningful appearances, not to mention tension with Lucious Fox, the death of Gordon's wife, Alfred's great lines and some believable closure with Rachel. As added features, the stories of all SIX Clayfaces will make appearance as you follow the growth of this ugly disease-like condition through the livse of six different individuals... just when you thought the case was closed... it'll open again. And remember, each case is not only a slugfest of locations to discover, but a network of people to investigate and a world of darkness to explore.

Also, when you take out the Joker "once and for all," giving closure to the storyline and game, you still get to keep playing, dealing with re-emersions of Two-Face, Clayfaces, Charaxes, Scarecrow

Training -- This is one of the things that makes the game magic... on top of the sixty hour storyline sprawling above, there are twelve, no less than twelve mini storylines to be played out, each coorresponding to a different type of gameplay Batman does. Six storylines are part of the extensive training mode. Six are secrets that you unlock as you play the game.

Combat-- A training storyline with World Champion Pugilist Ted Grant, in which young Bruce Wayne has a fight and a fling with fellow tutee Dinah Lance. Another, openable, hidden storyline has Bruce Wayne teaming up with Green Arrow in a special multiplayer free-roam adventure against a would-be-gangster called Black Mask and his army of goons.
Detective -- The training storyline has a young bruce wayne in Chicago under the tutelage of not-yet-replaced-by-a-martian detective John Jones in a case worthy of a classic novel that ends in John's death. The other "secret" detective story introduces the "Oracle," a young Barbara Gordon, solving cases with a lot of electronic networking and coorespondence with a certain broody bat as they discover what's up with Charaxes.
Stealth/Travel -- The training storyline has a young Bruce Wayne taught the beauty of the circus, and the art of free running by young couple John and Mary Grayson, while another storyline has young Rich Grayson donning a red vest over his black gear in order to take out Zucco "once and for all"
Bruce Wayne -- The first storyline has a childhood bruce wayne navigating old gotham alongside buddies Tommy Elliot and Harvey Dent while another has Bruce Wayne matching social wits with the smitten big name actress Silver St. Cloud and business sense with the dispicable mogul Lex Luthor.
Driving -- The training session involves a go with the wonderful Roxanne "Rocket" Rodriquez while the "secret" storyline involves you solving a case that makes use of a high-tech boat... yes, it's painted black...
Prep Time -- The training session is a flashback to Ra's temple atop the mountain as you learn to face augmented animals of death, superior combatants like Sandra "Lady Shiva" Woosan and eventually your predecessor (as leader of "these men"), the man who becomes Ra's after Watanabe dies... The secret unlockable quest is when Bane comes to town, and not only is he practically invulnerable on this scale, but he can out prep-time you if you're not careful.

Other Modes
While the main game and training can be fun, adding a few more modes of gameplay can REALLY crank up the replay value...
Versus -- I would be remiss otherwise... but the lock on feature gives you two attacks, a special and a block button. That's a fighting game, ladies and gents and you can squab it out as Batman, Joker, Two Face, Clayfaces, Ted "Wildcat" Grant, Dinah "Black Canary" Lance, Oliver "Green Arrow" Queen, Ra's Al Ghul and Lady Shiva.
Racing -- Again, how could we pass up testing the Tumbler against Bruce's Rolls, or his Ferrari? What about Joker's tricked out trumped up mustang? A gotham special unit Squad Car? And as secrets, Barbara's dirt bike on nitro and Harvey Dent's Beemer...
Time Attack --Take out the most bad guys in x amount of time? With infinite batarangs? Without being seen? Various mode exist here...

Multiplayer
I love it too much to leave it out... secret characters abound... split screen, network your boxes, whatever, it's all for the love of Batman... but none of the characters can outshine Batman, but on the contrary, it takes three others to make up what Bats does, and in a four-player co-op game, you have three classed chars and one multiclass character... which still works in a way...
Barbara -- Can be a detective just as good as Batman, though with weaker 'intimidation' levels... she gathers clues and info, just like batty... very limited fighting...
Grayson -- Can be a stealth and acrobat just as good as Batman, though he lacks the ability to 'fly' he does glide well... very limited fighting...
Green Arrow -- Once opened can be used again and again, at any time... very good at fighting and possesses a large amount of varied 'items' as arrows/ranged attacks, is not much of a detective and not much of a stealther


(I just realized how long this is)

Extras and Rewards
While cutscenes used to cut it... that's CLEARLY not enough anymore... people want some nostalgia, right?
Cars -- An old man sells antique and concept cars, many of which are actually old TV, comic and movie versions of Batmobiles in the years gone by... all can be purchased and driven for a sufficient amount of money/mission completions/whatever.
Costumes -- A costumer sells holloween costumes for this 'batman' character, all of which resemble the comics, movie and TV costumes of days gone by...
Suveniers (sp?)-- Not only can the above be displayed in the cave, but each case brings 1-3 special items to be displayed in the cave, depending on how it was completed... the museum area of the cave can be viewed in first person mode as you walk around the cave, and each solved case has an equipable item for your belt or car (combat solution), a large cavescape changing item (detective), and more free-running moves (stealth solution) from unique areas in the game... of course, each case can be solved all three ways at a time... and no matter how you defeat it, each case brings new comic covers and stuff onto the 'batcomputer'

Um... I think that's about it...

Yeah... I really can't think of any other way to make a Batman game better... all of you guys have great ideas tho...


Oh... I know!

The Ultimate Unlockable
If you are just fool enough to get 100% on this game... which should take you well over 100 hours between all the missions, side missions, versus games, time attack completions and special encounters (Dr. Leslie Thompkins, Duela Dent, Lex Luthor, you get to play as the Joker. Back from his 'demise' at the hands of Batman, the man with a multiple choice origin steps onto the scene under player control.

Free roam, with loads of crazy items and toys at his disposal, his own multiple choice of hideouts, a 'prep time' screen that allows him to send out and organize his thugs... instead of interrogating crooks, he recruits them... instead of a bruce wayne life he has an (optional) Harley Quinn "pet" character and once he hits the streets, he has the chance to slay everything that moves as they scream... and a laugh button, which does the same thing for Joker what striking from the shadows does for Bats... instant fear.

From here, players can play multiplayer free roam competitive games... or go solo with the Joker. This also opens up all-combat Clayface fusion, minion focused Two Face and sneaky little vixen Harley Quinn for four on four free-roam chaos matches!!! Or just take on the police and, as you follow an all new Joker storyline as he discovers his past... or various versions of it... and not even Batman can stand in the way of his crazed path of death... Of course you slowly unlock peices of FMV mixed up as you hit different checkpoint-kills, but escaping Batman, even the computer controlled one is very difficult, and it gets harder and harder to escape his clutches, and if you are caught, you lose all your progress, and it puts you at the beginning of the Joker storyline...

If you manage to make it through this 3-6 hours of gameplay without being beaten by Batman, then you find out your origin (soon to be revealed in the comics) and kill Batman... only to find yourself in the asylum, the storyline being entirely in your mind... or not... cuz Batman has a cut you remember giving him... doesn't matter... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

[The Spider-Bat]

Where can I buy it?

 

[TheShadow]

In your dreams

 

[The Spider-Bat]

In your dreams

What?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[TheShadow]

Lmao :d

 

[The Spider-Bat]

That is how I feel! GL1's game DAMMIT!

 

[TheShadow]

I have a good feeling that the next batman game will be free roam. Though I know since the superman fans feel that "Superman Returns" Movie game will be all free roam. I highly doubt that, I have a strong feeling that it wont be.
I think some people *not all people* don't know that every developer likes to test
The water when they put a game on the market *in this case EA's Batman Begins*.
They all have to get used to the tone of the game. The Batman Begins game was working of a script *the one that was leaked* The only visual reference they had to work off of was some of the concepts and mainly the Unfinished Batman costume at the time of early development. But my whole point is that EA. was testing the waters, seeing if they were going in the right direction with things. I'm sure of it and I know are looking at fan's reactions of the game. I'm also sure they will be looking out for what they want in the sequel game.

 

[Winking Samurai]

I think to expect something as ambitious as free-roaming from EA is unrealistic.

Look at Spider-Man. The first movie-based game was linear, just like Batman Begins. But with a major overhaul and a lot of ambition, Treyarch made Spider-Man 2, a great free-roam game with a solid idea in place: explore New York to your heart's content. Unfortunately, the game was a bit shallow since so much time was dedicated to perfecting web-slinging and the cityscape. This flaw will be rectified in the new Treyarch game Ultimate Spider-Man.

See? It took Treyarch three games to perfect their ideas. I see the same thing happening with Batman. Yeah, it would have been nice to have Batman Begins be free-roam, but it was never really an option. You have to understand, movie-based games have to be released alongside the release of the movie, which leads to an aggressive developing schedule. That doesn't leave much time for experimentation. Hopefully EA will release a new Batman game with free-roam, either based on the comic (a la Ultimate Spider-Man) or based on the inevitable movie sequel.

 

[-Fire-Fly-]

I want a copy when it comes out!

 

[Zues4Life]

I can't wait until the second Batman game made by EA comes out!!If they are planning on making another one.

In the meantime,I'm getting the Batman Begins video game for my birthday which is 3 months,139 days and approximately 3,058 hours from now.

 

[Zues4Life]

I can't wait to see what EA is cooking up for the next Batman game!!

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Want free-roam?

Tell them yourself by taking that survey on EA games.com

I figure IF enough people WANT free-roam.....it could happen.

 

[Winking Samurai]

Just read the newest Nintendo Power and it had an article on free roam games. Apparently the developer slang word for it is a "sandbox" game.

Just thought you'd like to know.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Makes sense......I mean, even when it's free-roam...it's still contained. Comparing it to a sandbox makes sense.

I sure hope Superman gets a "sandbox" game.....he totally needs it.

 

[muhammady]

My other name Zues4Life got banned and this is my original name.I still think that the BB game was better than the Spiderman 2 game even though it didn't have free roaming.

 

[Timstuff]

A free-roaming Batman game, if done right would be a true GTA killer. EA should start as soon as possible to allow for a plentiful developement time.

And one of the locations should be Wayne Manor and the Batcave! You should be able to explore the grounds at your leasure, and it should be perfectly re-created from the actual building's blue-prints. It would be sweet.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Dude, you should write them that in the survey......let them know.

 

[Timstuff]

I haven't actually gotten to play the BB game yet. Maybe I should rent it sometime.

 

[Spidey 2007]

A free-roaming Batman game, if done right would be a true GTA killer. EA should start as soon as possible to allow for a plentiful developement time.

And one of the locations should be Wayne Manor and the Batcave! You should be able to explore the grounds at your leasure, and it should be perfectly re-created from the actual building's blue-prints. It would be sweet.

*sigh* wtf

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

*sigh* wtf

What the hell is your problem?

 

[Spidey 2007]

What the hell is your problem?

the whole idea of a good batman game, he doesnt need one BLEH, and your not getting one sorry..