Later, she kisses guards and inmates with her mind control-lipstick, to possess other inmates to do her bidding and escape from Arkham. Two guards are there and she approaches them and users her vines on them. When the Joker releases all the inmates at the Asylum, Ivy goes to the greenhouse. Great game, I would like to see a sequel, but one of even grander scope as I would love to see one in the streets of Gotham, however they could really bungle that so I am also dubious if they did one like that too. Poison Ivy makes a cameo appearance in 2014 animated film Batman: Assault on Arkham. Kurt Conroy does Batman's voice as he did in the cartoon too. Nice to see he found a niche doing voice over work. Mark Hammill does the voice of the Joker just as he did on the cartoon and he does it so well that it is scary. Granted, there could have been a few more villains added to the mix, but I can understand why they did not try to add everyone as that may have detracted from the story a bit. That and the riddles may be well hidden, but not nearly impossible to find like in a Tomb Raider game. You can solve riddles from the Riddler and it is done a lot better than the collecting in most games of this type as the interview tapes and the spirit of Arkham things do not have to be found in any particular order. Though the game was never really annoying at any point and the game play was quite smooth transitioning from story point and area with ease. Throw in a mad Killer Croc, the insane Scarecrow, Poison Ivy and the Riddler and you have yourself a challenge. Well you soon find out that Joker with some assistance from his crazy little gal sidekick Harley Quinn had a plan for escape and soon after the entire island of Arkham is under the Joker's control. I enjoyed the opening as Batman once again escorts the Joker to Arkham asylum for the umpteenth time, only this time something seems strange as Joker seemingly wanted to get captured. Then if you are up to it you can hide in the shadows, perch on a gargoyle statue, or hide in the air vents to sneak up and silently take down Joker's men. His gadgets are done nicely as you throw batarangs, set explosive gel, and use grapples to perfection. This game though combines all of Batman's abilities to perfection as the fighting is fun and satisfying as you clobber wave after wave of Joker henchmen. They usually end up missing an element that detracts from game play such as the fact the web slinging kind of sucks as it is just him swinging from nothing and he might as well be flying or the web slinging is great, but the fighting and Spidey's strength is a non factor. Spider-man has made some good games, but nothing as complete. It also saddens me a bit as Spider-man is my favorite comic book character of all time, however Batman has now claimed my favorite movie based on a comic character in "The Dark Knight" and now my favorite video game. In fact, this game is probably the first game I have rated a ten and it not be a role playing game.
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