Batman: Arkham Origins (PS3)

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Drake approached the cinematic scenes like a traditional film score, with the design team describing scenes over the phone while he worked out of Burbank, California. Batman can freely move around the open world of Gotham City, interacting with characters and undertaking missions. The Arkham Story Begins: Batman: Arkham Origins features a pivotal tale set on Christmas Eve where Batman is hunted by eight of the deadliest assassins from the DC Comics Universe. Yet most of their missions boil down to the same “Go here, beat up a group of thugs, and deactivate/blow up a thing,” with variety limited to some of them having a timer on them. The score for Arkham Origins was composed by Christopher Drake, [115] replacing Ron Fish and Nick Arundel (who composed the scores for Arkham Asylum and Arkham City).

On compatible systems, the Microsoft Windows version uses Nvidia's PhysX software engine to produce more realistic, dynamic interactions with the game world. The Gotham City Police Department is aware of "the Batman", and does not condone his approach to crime-fighting. The iOS version was released on October 16, 2013, and the Android version was scheduled for release in late 2013.

It was partially inspired by the 1988 action film Die Hard (also set during Christmas), which features sleigh bells in its soundtrack to punctuate specific moments.

Others found the use of previous elements tedious, with replacements, simply mimicking the old (such as the glue grenade, with an identical purpose to Arkham City 's ice grenades). I found myself deliberately avoiding either of those gadgets, because I’m not in this to not fight criminals.

On Windows, a bug prevented players from accessing one of Enigma's towers; on the Xbox 360, the save files were corrupted and unplayable, with crashing and freezing problems. Conroy said at the 2013 Dallas Comic Con that he had been working on "the next Arkham", inspiring speculation that he would reprise his role as Batman in Arkham Origins; [103] however, in June it was confirmed that Conroy would not be in the game. Batman’s always made the shadows his ally, but in Batman: Arkham Origins, he finds the shadow of his own previous games impossible to escape from. Travel back to the days before there was a Batman and take control of a young Bruce Wayne as he completes his martial arts training.

Enhanced Detective Mode: Think like Batman with an all-new Case File system that allows players to analyze seemingly impossible-to-solve crime reconstructions in real time. Having assumed Black Mask's identity several days prior, Joker seized his criminal empire and imposed the bounty on Batman. The game, which is a sequel to Arkham City, is once again developed by Rocksteady Studios for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, and is set nine months after the events of Arkham City.The game's cinematic content, under the direction of supervising sound editor Alain Larose, received a Golden Reel Award nomination for Best Sound Editing in Interactive Entertainment. The game has a very fun main story, and the dark knight and deathstroke challenges are very rewarding. While not considering all equally fun or impressive, reviewers said that their variety and unpredictability provided excitement. A series of game-character action figures and a working, life-size grapnel-gun replica were released in October 2013 by DC Collectibles and NECA, respectively.