The Dark Knight is headed to a gaming console near you with today’s realease of the hotly anticipated, “Batman: Arkham Asylym.”
The game, which is available for PC, X-Box 360 and PlayStation 3, puts player into the role of the Dark Knight, who is forced into battle with some of his greatest foes within the confines of the infamous Gotham City prison.
Longtime archenemy The Joker is at center stage in this original story. Captured by Gotham’s finest, he breaks free after being transported to Arkham Asylum, an island prison for supervillains. Turns out The Joker has orchestrated all of this to trap Batman inside with a lineup of villains including Poison Ivy, Killer Croc and Bane now free.
The inmates are running the asylum, Commissioner Gordon is a prisoner and neither Robin nor Batgirl will be coming to the rescue. “In those relatively tight confines, Batman has to use all his cleverness, all his gadgets and all his strength to survive getting out of this enclosed space,” says writer Paul Dini, who works on multiple generations of the animated “Batman.” “It really puts the heat on him.”
Reprising their roles as the Dark Knight and the Joker from the animated series are Kevin Conroy and Mark Hammell.
“Just as we rethought the world for a video game, they rethought their roles a little bit and stepped up to give it that extra menace and determination,” said Dini. “Batman sounds a little more driven, a little more darker in this version, and The Joker is a little more gravelly, a little more manic, a little more hateful. They brought their A game.”
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