Can Bipolar Be Controlled

The Call of the black monolith

I almost thought Infamous would make this year the best you can get a super hero on the console. But then a sign flashed

in the middle of the August night sky. Rock Steady, not just a studio that was famous, had actually a Batman game published. no, not a license branch for the last motion picture "The Dark Knight," a comic inspired by the story of the Arkham Asylum. Just like that ... Full Stop. I allow you a brief digression to my "Batmanologie" because in such an iconic figure, the preferences of each individual can vary greatly depending on the interpretation and age. In this case we are talking about the most popular Super Heroes Superman behind.

Batman Begins
To the point, Batman is my favorite. Perhaps he is even the only hero that I may in the superhero genre. It was the beginning of the nineties, where it all started: My first memories of the figure of Batman can be in my memory to reconstruct the movie "Batman" from 1989. Tim Burton's film is a gothic Gotham, where a slightly disturbed billionaire night a bat costume attracts criminals and beaten. Many remained the power of Jack Nicholson as The Joker in memory. I think my dislike for clowns can be traced back to this film. The music of Elfman
should henceforth unzentrennlich combine with the character.
As fate will, was "
Batman - The Animated Series
" aired in this period, which solidified in my childhood the Batman myth with all the back stories. My first (And only) Batman comics were part of the "Knightfall" series, where a large outbreak in the prison Arkham Asylum a result, Batman pushes his limits physically and mentally to all the "Super Villains" recapture. The tone in these books is very dark and tells you saw how Batman "broken" is. Later I read "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller, what the dark and driven character of Bruce Wayne in a great "what if" history is wonderful ... even Superman can happen.


"... nananana BATMAN!"
Why this nostalgia? I want to clarify that my Batman from a very dark, dark Period dates. The 60s television series was ... irritating. I could not get anything from Joel Schumacher's Hollywood kitsch "Batman Forever and Batman & Robin", including most of the audience, Schumacher appeared to have killed Batman. Various mechanisms of repression kept my "old" Batman persist in the subconscious and influenced later my own stories about people with or without super powers.


"I'm the goddamn Batman."
Off, All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder # 2

Not the best quote, but appropriately "back to the roots". Christopher Nolan directed and Christian Bale as Batman caused the dark Ritter returned to his terrifying
, mentally been cracking most personality. No homoerotic jokes about the Boy Wonder, no world, derived from a children's coloring book could. The world has been represented as realistically as possible. "The Dark Knight" created a joker that could hardly be more terrifying: a sociopath, which achieves nothing but chaos. It was the "Godfather 2" of comic book movies ... I digress.
In other words, the perfect time to bring out a game. But there were only rumors that "The Dark Knight" game for the theatrical release was in development. The film was finally released in, the game does not track. Later, a short statement made that was canceled because of poor quality, the game project. miss Rarely in the gaming industry, where you brought out half-finished film licensed games, not just the theatrical release. Batman "deleted". I'm the goddamn Batman
. Like the motion picture the comeback was unexpected, and exceeded all (thanks to the bad movie license games very low) expectations.
Batman: Arkham Asylum

the game. The end of August on PS3 and Xbox 360, released in September on the PC, tells the story of the famous asylum "Arkham Asylum". The intro begins with the arrest of the Joker by Batman, he roars with his Batmobile towards Arkham, delivering them to the Joker.
The story was written by Paul Dini, who also wrote stories of Batman Animated Series, and therefore the characters very well understood. The original English votes have been taken from here and from the show, Hamill as The Joker is right here in his element. In the German Synchro lost things go on wit, but the cast is solid here with the German voice of Christian Bale as Batman and the voice of "Hal (Bryan Cranston) from" Malcolm in the Middle, "a wild card.

The Killing Joke
The Joker is at the center of this story, because he Einflieferung in the control of the institution can take the help of Harley Quinn. Making matters worse were due to a fire in the Black Gate Prison, most followers stationed Joker in Arkham and overpower the guards gradually from Arkham. Batman seems to be trapped, trapped in a high-security mental hospital. From then on, the player has as Batman in 3rd person in a semi-open world (within the building level-like game play, outside the island freely accessible) deal with his nemesis. Sounds average, right?

"Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who Spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his Bare Hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? . Good luck "- Lucius Fox The question now arises, what makes a good Batman makes game I summarize my Bat: Bruce Wayne is training extremely well in martial arts, so he should win unarmed fights easily However, firearms him?. . injure or even kill Batman uses the fear of his opponent moves in the shadows and turns opponents silently He is also a detective who knows to use his clever gimmicks, so we have the ingredients..
- beating or Hack'n Slay deposits
- Stealth Action, such as Metal Gear Solid or Splinter Cell, with the gimmicks - Slightly more expensive than the "Find key put in the Castle "puzzles - A fierce guy in a bat costume
. I eat punks like these for breakfast"

One of the few websites Schnitzer in this game of Batman Perfect for explaining the whipping system actually very simple to learn, however. difficult to master: the 4 front buttons are assigned to the following:. quadrilateral is attack, X is roll / dodge, circle is stunning attack and the triangle is counter-attacking the system is called free-flow, after 3 successful strikes Batman goes into this mode about where he combos seamlessly can perform. The timing is more important than the impact sequence. It is usually surrounded by groups of enemies as they attack from all sides Batman at. You see lightning symbol above the head of an opponent, it's time to "counterattack". With one click on the triangle Batman counters depending on the position perfectly, running animated opponents and you can continue beating. Later, opponents will use knives, you must first stun. Batman than swinging his cape in a circle in front of him, that the enemy disoriented and it allows Batman to attack them. Extremely important in this system is like saying the timing, the flow of processes. We can beat any opponent in a single combo, which brings not only a lot of XP points, but extremely cool looks. Perfect liquid depth in the animations. Later you can unlock more combos where you can Unignore with a keyboard shortcut an opponent immediately or may take an unfortunate enemy in groups. Once it happened to me that a Whipper zurannte on me, but what I first noticed in the last moment (camera relatively close to the character). As the Flogger raised his arm, I pressed the lock button at the last moment, the Batman with a small, fine body deception Whipper left the left side. The Whipper, shocked at the missed beat, looked over his shoulder and could just see, like Batman to
KO raised his arm and kick him clean into the realm of dreams sent.
"I know it feels like you're stuck in a room, all your friends are down, and Batman's hunting you. Well, I got news for you .... you're right. ! HA HA HA. "- Joker

Some rooms are in the game made a little bigger and filled with armed thugs have been a frontal attack would be deadly in such situations, it is the" Silent Knight "to the fore: Key you can Batman to" Batvision " can change, which allows him to see the world through a blue filter. Thus he sees through walls, enemies are each marked by arming red or blue. Also interactive objects gelbt with the filter selected. As an example, be called air shafts, the crack and he can climb through. In rooms proceed full of armed enemies Batman has quietly and deliberately. Fortunately, Gargoyles are inside the rooms (?) Had been distributed, so that he can move his grappling hook to these stone figures. Opponents rarely look up, so that Batman is relatively safe from this position. One may then study the ways of the enemy in peace and turn it off separately. Here comes the fun part, because the methods are bulky and slow the pace thanks to the "Batvision" very fast (you can see at any time the position of the opponent). If you want to sneak up an isolated enemy, so you approach it slowly from behind, and switches it out silently by Action button. Quick swinging up to a gargoyle can be observed, as the bad guys are off to their colleagues on the ground, nervousness is spreading. The opponents are of 2 or 3 groups to cover their backs. What do you do now as Batman? Batvision reveals a structurally weak wall on their running paths, so it's easy to swing to the ground, is going through ventilation shafts to the wall and sprayed a little Explosivgel. From a remote location you can then remotely detonate the gel and watch how KO'd by the force a few more guards. Panic breaks out among the criminals, they now formally sneak through the aisles, their colleagues every help and trembling with fear as Batman glides down to them, refuse ... This
crawl spaces made me personally even more fun because you can act a little-considered and the gimmicks are really versatile. Come later Schallboomerangs that attract enemies, or you can turn off by glass windows, ledges, floor grids from the opponents. The hunters feel is really present but one is always aware that an error usually dozens of lead bullets, and thus obtain the death of Batman to come off.


"Good job detective. Keep this up, and I might let you help me find my socks." - Riddler

Batman is a detective in the story also touched on. It's not a big issue and quite trivial in the story, usually you have to at certain points in a game Space scan for tracks. As an example, we studied the beginning of the game the trail of a prison guard. In the room where he was last, you'll find a whiskey bottle and scan them by Batvision. Batman is now its filters automatically to the chemical composition of the alcohol, so you can use the filter the odor of alcohol visually see and thus following the "flag" of the guard. As a result you have more rooms or areas pass through to its destination.
interesting is the Riddler: A "super villain", Batman is like the puzzle to hack the beginning of the game into his communicator and spread the good news that he had distributed all over Arkham mystery. A total of 240 (optional) puzzles the differences are shown below:
Riddler statues - a Collect a small statue with a question mark. Not particularly demanding, as long as the research drive is available (search every corner, etc.)
Certain Gegentände Scanning: When entering rooms of many a question appears on the screen, which refers to an object. Most of them are references to villains of Batman, such as eg. scanning a screen, which belonged to the penguin. Scanning switched to free and background information on the villain that you can read in the options.
interviews: there are tapes of the super villains that you meet in the game. These audio tapes, similar Bioshock like him, are used to better characterize and have been very well done.

The question mark: In the Batvision you can sometimes see a question mark, but without the "dot". Now it is time to merge from a certain angle from the question mark and the point so that all characters can be seen. Most are between question mark and the point several meters, so that one does not find the right place to start.

"Arkham Chronicles": This stone tablet is found scattered all over the island, you find is an audio tape played. She talks about the "spirit of Arkham, and the story contains within itself a mystery.
Joker teeth: One finds everywhere mechanical Joker teeth chattering walk across the floor. The aim is to scrap all the teeth with the Batarang.

Variety is thus provided with the puzzles, with those puzzles with background stories are of course more interesting than the collective puzzle. If you need a break from the story, one may like to go scour the island and solve the puzzles. In the Options menu is visible at all times, the area in which what might be missing still. Correct puzzle for the main story would have been great, but the consequences in various sections of track is better than nothing.

The mix

• A Story of a man in a bat costume for a night of cleaning up an asylum. The alternation between the action parts and surreptitious missions is well balanced. There is even a third, side scrollers regular part whose contents I can not name because of spoilers. Batman is abkriegen in the course of the story a few scratches that remain on the character model ... his humor is of course better result. The boss battles were in the majority solved well, which are actually the most spectacular of the mechanism produces the most boring fights. The final battle is mildly out of place, one of the few times where the balancing act between realism and Batman comics Batman does not rise.
A highlight is the Arkham Island that can come up with their extremely varied buildings no monotony. The island is changing even from the developing story, so that if one has to re-enter some buildings, they are different. The wild card, followed the exact thanks to the surveillance cameras Batman Adventures, comments by public address system with relish various situations with a lot of black humor.
After the end of the story you can load the save point and solve the remaining mystery of the Riddler, the island is therefore still free to walk on. Or you can try in the "Challenge" spaces, the beatings scenarios you have to flatten waves of enemies and reach a high score. Or the sneaking missions, where 3 targets are shown how to turn the opponent (eg tear 3 enemies simultaneously via ceiling). These rooms are perfect for entertaining and fun, depending on your mood, whether you want to chase something or just beat, perfect for the small dose of Batman in between.

"Atmsosphäre, in art and aesthetics of a mood"
One can say in summary that this is the Batman game. You get almost the complete package from the character of Batman, background information to share with you also ignorant on myth. The namesake of this game can transfer the atmosphere of the world well into the game and you may also enjoy 15 hours of high-class entertainment. Even if the game in an unknown type ... Beetle costume (?) Would, it would still be a successful action adventure thanks to the good fight mechanics and fun sneaking missions. For me personally it is very close to it at the "Game of the Year", which could perhaps be exaggerated. A look at Metacritic shows that a cut above 90% across all platforms my personal evaluation not as "fanboymässig" is ... or, the critics are afraid of the bat.

• On the platforms there are a few differences. The Xbox version seems to have less tearing, the Playstation version has additional
Joker and the Challenge Rooms
PC version uses
• additional Phsysiken
and looks best.

Oh, and the Viral Marketing

is also a mini-game ... just write an e-mail to the person who may have information in the comments to the "real" backgrounds.

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Can I Give My Baby Anbesol

superhero in the summer, part 2: The dark knight returns in style

There appears to go the long summer over, I should have more time to pursue my hobby gamers ... before the Christmas shopping season begins again in this mad rush of releases, as the publishers believe that the year would have about 4 games months.
cough * * After a short break will review this contribution even in multi-part form, the content to treat two exceptional games with superhero theme.

Ah, the superheroes, perfect for games. After my great love MMO City of Heroes "to" City of stagnation "has been renamed, I longed for a new game exercise where one could freely vigilantism. On the PS3 (exclusive), was published this May, "Infamous," an open world game where the character can manipulate Elekrizität. Sounded good and was alluded to, the conclusion was more than just their satisfaction from. Infamous - The spark jumps across
The story happens to Cole McGrath, whose job is to deliver packages. The first scene in the game begins with an explosion
, it wakes up in the center of Cole wounded. In a small tutorial on the player takes control of him and tries to get from "Ground Zero" to the police and ambulance to arrive at the disaster center tries. The story is much like an interactive comic told and completes the great atmosphere. Since the explosion, the city is sealed off from the outside world as an unknown disease has broken out. Cole monitored 2 weeks after the disaster at the hospital and must first learn that the nurse came to his girlfriend died in the explosion. The city (comprising 3 islands linked by bridges) rapidly descending into chaos, some are without electricity Statdteile and street gangs are trying to exploit the situation. Zeke, the best friend of Cole, accompanies him on his first tentative steps in the city and distributed the initial missions.
"Cole - Glue Man" At the beginning, the first island available, at the other 2 are the bridges have been erected. The game is played in 3rd person. From the beginning, is the mobility of
Cole : He can climb to almost everything. Unbelievable, what has been placed at points, but Cole can climb up easily with a push of a button an entire house. The animations are fluid and the sighting is shown on the next set tough place automatically copied from the game. Recalls a little of Assassins Creed, and sometimes it is difficult to get Cole down fall of a house, a climbing sameness. Cole's electric forces grow with time, in the beginning he can "only" shoot electric shocks on his hands (as shoulder buttons). This can be done from any position, so even if he just hangs at a traffic light or climb down a balcony. By completing missions you get XP, you can invest in other super powers such as eg. glide in the air (increasing the distance one can cover the jump) or fragmentation grenades, bombs, electric, or electric shields ... There is no lack of forces. The forces remember something at a Shooter: The first force the electrical impulse is infinite and is the easiest attack. Subsequent forces recall grenades or rocket launcher, and demand from some of Cole's energy meter. Cole can suck its energy from all objects that include electricity. Be it cars, televisions, traffic lights or people ... This also regenerates his health. As an opponent you meet mostly members of street gangs, who have won since the explosion also superpowers. Boss fights are rare, but well staged. The trip force in a big city is important for those games, and this is a good solution here: After the first missions Cole receives the power to slide on power cables. He can on the roofs travel long distances and climbing is involved in a natural way.


vs. Jesus. Car throwing

"People suck the Bioenenergie that is not ... wrong?" the morally rich ask of us, but fortunately this game can live out here, both sides. The missions vary between story, side-missions and morality. The story and side missions can involve themselves in decisions that the inclination determined from Cole. As an example, the first mission to be called, where Essrationen be dropped on the main square, and the fight is between the residents and the street gang to food. The game leaves you the choice whether the evil grill and leaves the inhabitants of the food, or you tidy and ensure all the food for himself and his best friend. An indicator tells us how it is made to the morale of Cole. If you have enough good or evil, you can complete missions morality that is accessible only to the ever evil or good side.
The attitude is very important in the game, because the more you slip off to one side, and larger forces get activated. Cole, Jesus gets a good person forces that he can use targeted and non-lethal. As the angel of death, his forces (eg. the fragmented electric grenade several times and does great damage to surface) is much more destructive. The external appearance of Cole changed, he looks as a hero much "brighter" and clean, his flashes are bright white. The dark Cole gets a pale skin, misses red flashes and looks unkempt. The city responded to their super-human, according to the residents give more effort and clean up the streets, or they became like Cole's appearance. In general, pedestrians are really cheesy, if they call for help: Cole can resuscitate injured people with electric shocks again. Sometimes put so many people suddenly on the street that you think might be the junkies who need their "Cole power kick". Or is simply cruel to people and sends them via pressure wave on the other side. One should however not be surprised if suddenly come anfluchen and stones served the people for a just yet. The tendency to neutrality is not, unfortunately, rewarded. You must either be consistently good or bad, because it is the only way to unlock all powers updates. Too bad, so you have to decide some choices more super powers perhaps against his own will.
comes with much power a lot ... Drama

beginning of the second period, the story takes a bit of momentum, the morale issues attract greater consequences. In the first third was not umsomst into the story his Girlfriend and his best friend is investing. This illustrates something I miss in the newer games: a fitting story with a good atmosphere. It feels powerful than Cole when it comes to beat up goes from street gangs. But if the friend is mourning, there is no use flashes in the world. So you go back on the streets, climb a building, save what can be saved. If one is top of a tall building and the city provides fire, while in the local television channel from the "Terrorist Cole says, are mixed feelings ... I'm the hero, the city needs this? The final twist is well managed and rounds off a good comic story.
playing time is 20 to 25 hours, the History including the end is different depending on whether one is good or evil. shine on the part of the amazing graphics power effects and mass of explosions that may appear on the screen. No loading pause during the game, sometimes you can drop the frame rate when 10 cars again at the same time breaks. Despite black and white moral system slides the story not from the hero stereotype.
conclusion is a clear recommendation to all who have a Jesus complex or would like to throw several things with a shock wave through the area.

Licensa Mount And Blade

superhero in the summer, part 1: The Electric Blaster Next Door

Playstation Network. The year is 2009 ... oh we get down to business. The PSN has some good games for a low price (impulse purchases yay!) and these are perfect for an entertaining games in between. Here are my favorites include:


flOwer


A flower that is carried by the wind through the world. That is all.
An incredibly relaxing game ... no, it is rather an experience. The bloom is controlled via Sixaxis, the "goal" is to gather other flowers across more flowers ... But the mechanics are just placeholders. Just as well you can just fly over the fields and dreaming

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Noby Noby Boy

Yes how I should best describe ... So it's something like a worm, "Boy." with the two sticks you control both ends, so the head and buttocks. Boy lives on in the world, mostly square and ... Creature is inhabited. With the left shoulder button, you can arrange to Boy to eat what is in front of his nose. With the right shoulder button is the Boy rauspupsen eaten again. The funny
is, however, that if one controls Boys ends in the opposite direction, it stretches and becomes longer. This stretching is registered by a fairy numerically. If you want, you can then log the length of "Girl." Girl is a worm, but is rieeesig and sits on the world and stretches toward space. Your goal is to visit other planets. So
world every player who Noby Noby Boy is playing, can announce its length and this girl stretched cumulatively. So far, thanks to the hardworking boys of the Moon and Mars have been achieved.
These additional planets can then go and play with Boy.
I know it sounds weird and makes no real sense.

I love it.
The game leaves it to oneself, whether one wants to eat now as many people as possible, or they can ride on the back. Or you eat people and with NEN Koala and I watch what comes back out for ne intersection. Or pupst the tune of his favorite songs. Or knots, three times around the world. Or ... It's just, that someone wants. Stretching relaxes himself. The cute graphic style and the low price (6 francs) invite you to look at it at least once. was in the latest update also installed an offline co-op for up to 4 players. Simply switch on an additional controller and away you go the

nonsense. There's even a feature where you take the Plays and load up on youtube, it fits the Internet has even more nonsense: D

PixelJunk Eden (and Encore)

Eden Ah, my favorite among the PSN titles. And yes I'm addicted. This game is back to call rather than "game": You play a small character that can jump over short distances. The game world is a garden, scattered in the various flower seeds. By collecting the pollen flying around in the air, simply fill in the seeds and they can then start to grow flowers from them (what our little hero can climb up higher). The goal is to collect so-called Spectras (most are in the top level), open a store in other gardens. Actually a platformer like Mario at the time. The prominent is the swing. Yes, with a push of a button the figure can be fixed to plant it and swing to quickly collect pollen or to go with momentum on the next plant. Up to 3 players can be together (again, offline) and hunt for themselves zusamentun Spectras. The unique graphic style and sound has something of
Trance.
Also this game has the youtube upload feature.



more ideas, I hope in future to write, may also, if pleasure and time are given.