Bottom line is this game worth 52 or 53 dollars in your opinions guys and gals here? It's that much at Amazon new and I have a prime account, so I'm really thinking about purchasing this.

If you're a huge Batman fan, yes. If not, rent it first.

Is it online multiplayer at all?

I'm loving this game. That damn room mentioned above (7 guys, rigged gargoyles) took me about an hour to finish. I had to stop shortly after that since it was reaching 4am, and without spoiling anything, I got a feeling the ending is coming up soon.

I'm racking up a bunch of achivements too. I doubt I will go for 100%, but I know I want to at least find every Riddler secret on the island, just to unlock everything.

That would kick all kinds of ass.

I'm enjoying it and I'm not a huge Batman fan or anything, but there are a couple of things that strike me as strange. For one, I'm early in the game (about 10%) and I died at one point because I put explosive gel in the wrong place. So on the text screen that comes up when you die, it said exactly what to do next time. It's not like it was hard to figure out, but shouldn't the game let you do it on your own? (I'm on Normal difficulty, BTW). Also, I find it kind of annoying that all Batman does is knock people unconscious, apparently for endless hours at a time since they don't get back up. I realize that was probably to get a Teen rating, but come on. I place two explosive charges outside a tiny room, and it just knocks them out? Nonetheless, the game is proving to be a fun distraction for my labor day weekend.

Let's put it this way. There are only 3 games this year that I would personally buy full price. Beatles, COD MW2, and Batman.

It's a fantastic game for the single player. Unfortunately no multiplayer mode.

Batman doesn't kill.

First off, I'm really surprised this got a teen rating even without the killing, it's got some very disturbing stuff in it. Second, I'm pretty sure it would've been a mandate from DC that Batman doesn't kill... I'm sure he's offed some thugs at some point, but in general he doesn't kill. Why do you think the Joker is STILL around at this point?

Just beat it, great game all the way through. Challenge maps, competing with friend scores will keep me busy for a while. I also think a 'terrorist hunt' map would be great. I keep Vegas 2 just for that mode.

I don't know about you, but there is no way some of the thugs survived some of the stuff I did to them in this game. I don't care what my detective mode tells me.

One thing did occur to me, how awesome would it be if the whole game was a trip on Scarecrows drug, and you had been going around the island, actually taking it over from the cops. All the people you attacked were not thugs, but actually cops.

Dammit, I FINALLY beat this challenge at 2:46 and didn't even get a $@% bronze?!!

For someone that has gotten a medal, how fast do they want you to do?

Isn't the only way to get the medals in those modes is to do the three specified "moves" for which you get a separate medal for each?

Yep, but you have to do all three on the same round. You can't do two one round, then the leftover on the next.

Yeah, I get that. I thought they were saying that they took out all the guys and were wondering why they didn't get any medals.

I got pissed the the game last night. I was doing one of the later ones in the medical facility, and I did the "take three guys down using three different wall explosions" and the "flying takedown", or whatever it's called. I had one guy left, and I did the "crash through a window using the line" just perfectly, I hit him and he went out and I knocked him out after and the stage ended, but it didn't give me credit for the window takedown!!! I had tried that one over and over and OVER and finally did it and it didn't register.

Did you stand on top of the window and hit the button when it showed "Takedown"? I think that's the only way it counts.

Did John Di Maggio do any of the voice work in this game? It's not listed on his IMDB page, but the "get him on the ground and stomp on his face" line that I hear over and over in the challenges sounds exactly like Bender.

Well, shit I feel stupid! When you start the round it says defeat all the enemies as quickly as possible so I just thought it was a time challenge.

I've done exactly what I did before, did it before the fly down grab before I got shot, and that time it counted when I did exactly what I did this past time and it never said "Takedown".

I think the game is messing with me now.

That's what you do to get on the leaderboards I believe.

yeah you have to get all three medals, and then your best time shows up on the leaderboards.

I just found out the hard way why they tell you to never power off the machine in the middle of a save. I died in the last room of the pump house, Joker came in at the quit/retry screen and my whole room went dark. I love it when people fail to let anyone else know when they are screwing with the breaker. Power came back on a moment later, I went back in to Batman and the entire save game file was gone. All my progress, all my challenges, everything. I was pissed at first but it's a good thing I love the game, because starting over doesn't sound all that bad.

That's unfortunate. Hopefully you weren't too far in.

This game has got under my skin. I was at work last night, wanting nothing more than to come home and play more. I probably won't fire it up again, until Tuesday (for a marathon session), but this is going to be one of those games I think I will be playing multiple times (which is something I just do not do).

Could someone give me an idea of where I am. I just ran into Harley Quinn where the floor is electrified.

That's almost half of the game or so it seems.