Klavan On The Culture

October 13th, 2009 9:56 am

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Well, that was fun, video-game-wise.  A bit overrated by the critics.  Most of them called it a great game.  It’s not.  It’s very good and plenty exciting at a time when most games are repetitive and dull.  Beautiful to look at, great voice acting (including Mark Hamill and Adrienne Barbeau), smooth fighting with some cool stealth moves and a couple of top-notch boss levels–the Scarecrow and the Croc.   Ends kind of abruptly and the final boss level is a disappointment, which I find with a lot of games.  Other than that, a pleasure all the way.

And yes, Batman is George W. Bush…  except he spends less money.

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1. raba raba:

i always thought bush was a comic book character also. he looks like alfred e. newman, and i think that is the character he was like. except he was a whole lot goofier.

Oct 15, 2009 - 5:44 pm

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