Holy Pause Button, Batman!

Some more pause screens from Batman: Arkham City.

Back with Batman

Sorry I've been away for so long, things have been hectic with school and work, and I haven't been doing much to blog about the past few weeks. But now I'm getting back into the regular groove again.

I was playing Batman: Arkham City yesterday, and I found some fun little details in the city that I never noticed before.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins is one of Bruce Wayne's confidants in the comics, and runs a medical clinic for Gotham's addicts and criminals in the slums.

As you can see in the top picture, when you look at the police station from a certain distance away, it looks like the Bat Signal is on, but when you zoom in, or move any closer, it turns off.

After Batman and Freeze finish fighting over poison antidote, and discover that Harley Quinn stole it, you can see the hole in the wall she made to take it out of the safe.

 I thought it was funny to see an Arkham mug in the GCPD, as I would expect the Gotham police wouldn't have cared for the place (what with it's lax security and all). Somebody start making these for real!

And here's another pause screen!

Arkham Trailers

Since Batman: Arkham Knight is coming out soon, I thought we'd take a look through the history of the Arkham games.

Pause Screens are Cool

These "Pause" screenshots are from Batman: Arkham City. I like how they did away with the highlights and refined the details a bit.

Arkham City Predator Challenge Loading Screens

The only two predator challenge screens I don't have yet are the police station and wonder tower final score images (which are different from their loading images).

More Arkham City Combat Challenge Loading Screens

Batman: Arkham City Combat Challenge Loading Screens

These are screenshots of the loading graphics of each combat challenge in Batman: Arkham City. Taking these (as well as the title screenshots I featured a while back) was like taking a picture of a bird, I had be fast before the subject went away.

    

Exploring Gotham

A while back I discovered a YouTube video explaining a glitch in Batman: Arkham City that lets you leave the Arkham City compound and fly around Gotham. Basically you settle onto a ledge, (I find that corners work best) and start throwing freeze bombs like crazy. Batman will rise higher with each throw, and after about 100 throws you can glide over the boundaries without being turned back. However, you can't land on anything in Gotham, so the higher you go initially, the farther you can glide, but eventually you'll drop below the ground into the abyss.

Below is good old Arkham Asylum from the first game. Obviously they didn't clear away all of Poison Ivy's plants, lazy bums.

Batman in Action

Today I thought I'd show off some Batman action shots, but first, here's a calendar with all the holidays circled where Calendar Man tells you a story (you visit him in the courthouse basement).

Batman goes duck hunting

Batman does a head smash.

A criminal contortionist.

A gut punch.

He never saw it coming.

Ow.

Batman showing off his Sinestro ring.

Batman likes to live on the edge.

Why Batman is banned from the museum.