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Main game is pretty easy, even on hard.

Challenge maps can be difficult, though. I can't even imagine trying to play any of the Extreme combat levels without attack cues.

Then again, Predator mode is so much better than combat...
Sequel already scheduled for fall 2011 on all platforms: http://www.batmanarkhamcity.com/

It won't make any top games list i ever post, but I enjoyed the "experience". For one, the game was a pretty smooth, classy release on PC. K+M controls worked, was probably the start of the relaxation in DRM restrictions on games (despite still having DRM, but they started the crash of none). It ran beautifully, looked great, nailed the atmosphere and characters. Everyone loved batman when they were a kid. (I had a batman t-shirt for every day of the week when i was ~7 yrs old (this is 15-16 yrs ago now). And batman movies are back, so it's all popular again. And they had cool stuff with messing with your mind that reminded me of American McGee's Alice at times. And they had simple but enjoyable puzzle elements. And boss fights (admittedly pretty tame). So all in all it was a very accomplished release. Probably the best ever comic -> game that i've played or can think of at the moment. I'm sure someone else will start off a discussion about Metro 2033 or something... the Witcher. etc. (but they were both fully fledged novels).

That's about it, I think. Unless they've patched the AA issue or whatever. But didn't they do that anyway? Frankly, it's just confusing what they've done there.

They did patch in the AA support for AMD cards. They couldn't do it on the original release due to the marketing agreement with NVIDIA. On the original release you need to do the manual hack.

They did patch in the AA support for AMD cards. They couldn't do it on the original release due to the marketing agreement with NVIDIA. On the original release you need to do the manual hack.

Ugh, That makes sense but it ultimately shows that AMD was correct... Le sigh.