Batman: Arkham VR

Batman: Arkham VR
Original title	Batman: Arkham VR
Studio	Rocksteady Studios
Publisher	Warner Bros. Interactive
Erstveröffent- lichung	October 13, 2016
platform	PlayStation 4 + VR , Microsoft Windows
genre	Action adventure
Subject	Batman
Game mode	Single player
control	PlayStation Move
medium	Download
language	English
Age rating	USK PEGI

Batman: Arkham VR is a video game for the head-mounted display of the PlayStation 4 , PlayStation VR , and was released in October 2016. A version for Microsoft Windows was released in April 2017. The game was developed by Rocksteady Studios and is the first video game in the Arkham series to be played from a first-person perspective . The player slips into the role of Batman .

action

As a child, Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents being murdered in an alley by Joe Chill. As a result, Chill says to Wayne: "This is what happens when you try to be a hero".

Many years later: After the previous game Batman: Arkham Knight where Batman , who is the alter ego of Bruce Wayne, inhales a dose of a toxin and has been infected with the blood of the Joker, hallucinating Wayne since then by the late Joker . Bruce Wayne finds himself at his Wayne Manor estate and is asked by his butler Alfred Pennyworth to come downstairs to the Bath Cave . There he learns from Pennyworth that neither his sidekick Tim Drake, who is on the road as Batman's partner Robin , nor his partner Dick Grayson, who hunts criminals as Nightwing , can be reached. With the Batcomputer , Batman can track down Nightwing in the center of Gotham , so that Batman can go there.

However, he can only find Nightwing dead with a broken neck and blames himself for not having been there. With his technical aids, Batman reconstructs the fight and realizes that the fighter must have known Nightwing's fighting style. Using a handprint nearby, Batman finds out that Jackie Flynn, one of the penguin's henchmen , was there at the time of the murder and was watching the crime.

Batman finds the person he is looking for on the roof of the Iceberg Lounge , where the penguin usually hangs out. Batman eliminates his henchman and confronts the penguin, hanging upside down from a roof. He says that he has nothing to do with the disappearance of Nightwing, but that someone came to his club last night and said that Batman was after him before someone blew up "half of the Iceberg Lounge" ". When Penguin's henchmen approach, Batman turns them off with the batwing and makes his way to the morgue .

There he finds victims of the assassination, including Jackie Flynn. Using the bomb fragments in the victims, Batman is able to reconstruct the bomb. He finds out that the device was registered with CityVision Demolition , which is also demolishing an old canal system on Founders' Island , an island in Gotham. Hoping to meet Robin there too, Batman sets off there in the Batmobile . Before that, however, he receives the last radio message from Robin, who says he has fallen into a trap.

Arriving at the canal, Batman hears voices from the deceased Joker when he finds Robin in a cell with graffiti on a rock that was written like the Joker's handwriting. Batman tries to free Robin when Killer Croc appears outside of Robin's cell and keeps trying to break into the cell and get Robin. Finally, both are able to open Robin's cell when Killer Croc reappears and kills Batman's sidekick.

As a result, Batman finds himself in the Arkham Asylum psychiatric hospital . There he also sees the Joker in a cell, who says that Batman should enter his cell. When Batman looks around, there is a mirror in front of him. Batman stops in front of it and keeps looking to both sides: On one side he sees Nightwing, on the other side, where the Joker was previously, he sees Robin and behind him the corpse of Jackie Flynn can be seen for a short time. Batman looks back on the previously acquired knowledge when writings appear in his cell and Batman hears the voice of the Joker again, while the three deceased disappear again and graffiti in Joker's handwriting appear on the wall. Batman sees the final moments of Robin and Nightwing again when he sees his suit with the eyes of the Joker behind the Nightwing killer. Finally, Batman looks at his blood-stuck hands and from there in the mirror again. There he does not find himself, however, but the joker.

development

In 2015, Batman: Arkham Knight , announced by Rocksteady as the last console game from the Arkham series, was released. The following year, however, the studio announced on Twitter that they would produce a sequel with Batman: Arkham VR . The decision was made after the release of the previous game. Rocksteady was thinking about what to do next when they talked about the virtual reality glasses and decided to produce another Batman game for the head-mounted display of the PlayStation 4. Rocksteady sees this as an opportunity to tell a story about Batman in a completely new way. On June 13, 2016, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment announced the game Batman: Arkham VR . 70 of Rocksteady's 132 employees worked on the game. In mid-June 2016, Rocksteady released the first trailer for Batman: Arkham VR at E3 . It plays in the same world as the previous console games Batman: Arkham Asylum , Batman: Arkham City , Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Knight and was announced for October 2016. Thus the adaptation appear about the same time as needed for the game video glasses from Sony . Unlike in the previous games, Batman: Arkham VR is played in the first person perspective.

A demo version of the video game was playable at E3 2016. The player slipped into the role of Batman, who is looking for evidence of the murder of his former partner Dick Grayson, who also fought against the crime as Nightwing on Batman's side.

reception

IGN's Dan Stapleton said that despite the virtual reality glasses, he only felt limited as a Batman. While he praised the combination with the PlayStation Move controllers while exploring the area, he criticized the physical aspects of the game. So you can reach through other figures with your hands without them responding. Stapleton praised the glasses in moments when you are facing other characters and can look directly into the eyes of the respective character. He also praised the use of certain gadgets that were already in the previous games, but which feel more intimate thanks to the VR. However, other actions such as fighting and moving did not materialize, which Stapleton disliked. Stapleton described the plot as a "fun murder mystery offshoot" of the Arkham franchise, although it is "a little predictable". The journalist gave the game 7.2 out of 10 points.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

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