Batman: Arkham Asylum Demo Coming Aug. 7th

By: Jon Christensen on August 3rd, 2009 pm31 11:50 pm

Easily one of the most anticipated videogame title to come out this summer has to be Batman:Arkham Asylum. The game is expected to be sitting on store shelves starting on August 24th and from what we played, we recommend to buy this one. In case you’re unsure because you have yet to play the demo at your local Best Buy, Edios has announced that a demo will be dropping this Friday, August 7, for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Obviously, the demo will only be available to any online members of the respected systems.

The demo is expected to be where the full retail version starts off. The Joker somehow breaks out of his room in Arkham Asylum and takes control of the prison. From there, players will get to experience a bunch of Batman’s attributes including the ‘Invisible Predator‘ mode and the ‘FreeFlow‘ combat system.

It sounds as though this demo will be more like the E3 one we tried a few months back, rather than the retail demo released a few months ago.

Thanks to the kind folks over at G4, up top is another trailer for the action game. Check it out.

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Play as the Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3 Only)

By: Jon Christensen on April 23rd, 2009 pm30 2:13 pm

A virtual billboard advertisement in Sony’s online community Home, reveals players will be able to play as the Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum. According to the same ad, which were found by Kotaku readers, the supervillain will be available exclusively to PlayStation 3 owners.

The same billboard briefly mentioned how gamers will get their hands on the famous schizophrenic clown. Once someone completes a map, that player will be able to reply each level called “Challenge Maps.” From here, gamers will be able to choose to play either as the Dark Knight or his archenemies.

No word if the Xbox 360’s version will have a similar mode, but with a different selectable enemy. Even if it does, I have a hard time believing it’ll be a better villain than what PS3 owners get to play as. So as of now, I know which version I’m buying.

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