This poll is proving my suspicion that B:AA was the most overrated game last year.
To be honest, I would have been more surprised had Batman AA not been a top contender or winner here on the Hype. We have a lot of ppl on here without PS3's and Batman AA is multiplat unlike Uncharted 2, plus....it's a superhero website. Not saying it wasn't overhyped, despite loving the game, I didn't feel it was the second coming a lot of fans of it treated it to be (exact same way with TDK, good movie, not best movie of all time like many treated it like on here).
Among comic fans, definitely. I loved it, but it certainly had its flaws. But comic fans have been so starved for great comic-based games--especially for Batman, who should be a no-brainer yet has constantly gotten crappy games for years--that we're a lot more willing to forgive its flaws and focus only on the good parts. Of course, in fairness, there are still a lot of legitimate good parts.
That's a good point as well. If a good Batman game is something you've really been wanting, well last good one I played was Batman and Robin on Sega Genesis, so it's been a loooong wait. Plus it doesn't hurt that the voices were done by the best Batman and Joker voices the series has had (IMO).
Not just comic fans but everyone. It was short, had no replay value, and terrible bosses. They didn't even have include an unlockable skin for a 2nd playthrough. I keep all of my games for a number of years before I get rid of them. But this was the first that I traded in only a few months after I beat it.
I won't argue most of these points. I held onto the game for a lot longer than I should have before I traded it in. I beat the game twice, played the challenge rooms, but kept it just in case I ever felt like taking a virutal step in Batman's shoes...which I never did again, and parted with it knowing the second game is coming out sooner than later. What was there was good, but it did feel like it lacked a lot of replay value.
The bosses ranged from good to let's just get this over with and move on with the story. I liked fighting Poison Ivy at first as it was a nice realistic way to approach a normal human fighting giant plants...until I realized she just had 2 move modes that would get repeated for the next 20 mins. Same with Bane, Joker, and Croc. Killer Croc did make me get in the moment and really watch my steps for a second (the music really helped with that), but after awhile I realized he was too easy. Bane, and the 50 million other Bane clone sub boss battles they put in were very repetative. Joker at the end was a joke as well.
However, despite all of that....it really was a good game. Definitely a step in the right direction for a new IP. Batman AA had it's flaws for sure, and I don't believe it was GOTY worthy, but it had some really good ideas, a good story, a great voice cast, good game mechanics, and a good setting. Hopefully the second game will fix the flaws the first had.
