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Batman: Arkham VR
Released On: Oct 11, 2016
74
7.3
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 64 Critic Reviews
74
59% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
38% Mixed
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 64 Critic Reviews
74
59% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
38% Mixed
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The scenes you experience while progressing the story are top notch and were a perfect fit for a VR title. At one point, you’re in a morgue and have to use one of our gadgets to scan bodies for shrapnel from an explosion at the Penguin’s hideout. These mechanics also work extremely well with the move controllers, which to be honest, is the best way to experience Arkham VR.
Batman: Arkham VR is a pretty short but amazing VR experience. This game achieves the dream of making the user feels how is it to be The Dark Knight. You should try it of you have a PlayStation VR.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 194 User Ratings
7.3
63% Positive
123 Ratings
123 Ratings
20% Mixed
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
17% Negative
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 194 User Ratings
7.3
63% Positive
123 Ratings
123 Ratings
20% Mixed
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
17% Negative
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
Although it was short, that by itself changes nothing. This 20$ demo is made out of pure love. Easily the top 3 best experience I've ever had in VR. I don't even have a PS4 pro and the graphics are just excellent!! Top Notch. Everything is 10/10 in this.
Things that would've made it better:
-There's no fighting at all. Not even one fight.
-Length. It's like 1 hour.
-I would've liked the option to choose to move instead of only "teleportation" mode.
I'm giving it a 10/10 because if this game was 7-9 hours long. It would've been a masterpiece.
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PlayStation 4
Amazing game. Don't let anyone tell you it's too short to be worth $20. For the previous 30+ years of gaming, experiencing this in VR would have been the absolute best way you could possibly spend $20.
The menu screen -alone- is my VR showcase for new people. This game looks incredible.
Good character moments, good scale moments, good hand-interactive puzzles, good only-in-VR Riddler puzzles, fight scene that instantly defines what fighting games in VR will be - basically everything that VR does right, this game demonstrates right out of the gate. It's clearly a launch title in that way, showcasing a lot of neat variety while not intended to dive into great depth on any one piece.
Sure it's short, and it still beats the pants off of nearly every gaming experience you've ever had, at a fraction of the price. Play it immediately, even if you're not a Batman fan in the slightest (I'm not, I can only imagine it would be even more incredible if you were!).
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PlayStation 4
For the first time, you can really be the Batman and it's a exhilarating feeling. Rocksteady adapted Batman to VR really well: they kept focus on investigation instead of fighting, avoiding motion sickness by making Batman still. And they eventually offer a surprising scenario. It's far from perfect, but it's one of the best experience on PS VR you can play today.
It’s not quite ready yet to replace the style and brilliance of the Arkham series as your go-to Batman game, but this could be the beginning of a very special new relationship with Batman, and I sincerely hope we get more like this.
As an “interactive experience” Batman Arkham VR offers some great visuals and full immersion inside the world of the Dark Knight, but we can’t overlook the fact that it is an extremely short game with little to no replay value.
Incredibly interesting approach for the Batman Arkham saga, but only one hour of gameplay is insufficient to create a deep experience.
Arkham VR is a limited game but a robust experience, with only some replay value through collectable Riddler trophies dotted around subsequent playthroughs. Like many other VR games it serves well as a showcase for the possibilities of virtual reality, but doesn't offer players an experience with any real depth.
The single most incredible gaming experience I have ever had since a friend first gave me floppy disks of Doom 24 years ago. It is hard to describe. I have tried another PS4 VR game, Robinson's Journey, which is fine, but Batman somehow convey a sense of weight and substance to the environments and characters that makes everything seem much more as if it is really there. You just feel overwhelmed and surrounded by a gritty but beautiful city - everything from the fallen leaves and rain puddles to the zeppelins overhead, to the bricks inches from your eyes as you stand on a fire escape peering into windows, to the strength and substance of Nightwing and Robin who are perfectly animated in the most natural way possible - it must all be motion capture. This is not even to mention the beautiful lighting and sound.
Right away with the opening, witnessing Batman's origin as your parents fall dead to your left and right is the most meaningful way to experience that origin tragedy. The use this game makes not only of the VR headset, but of the move controllers which have you reaching and turning objects in the game, taking things from and handing things to other characters, as well as the use the game makes of the PS4 camera which allows you to literally in the real world walk left to right about 7 feet and front to back as far back as my living room allowed before I hit the sofa, also lends a visceral sense that you are really in this other palpable credible concrete place.
The gameplay is not Arkham City or Arkham Asylum gameplay. This is not an action game. It is traditional point-and-click style adventure game where you move around first person MYST style (except for the area in which you can actually walk back and forth and toward and away from the camera), utilizing gameplay where you search for and put together clues including one cool scene in which you reassemble a smashed bomb detonator by manipulating the broken pieces with your hands and put them together like a 3D jigsaw puzzle. I almost didn't buy this game due to the MYST style movement but now I realize it is to prevent nausea which, in VR games, can become a real issue. I was unprepared for how much that MYST style movement just did not bother me, partly because within a small area you always can walk around.
The game is short but when you consider the sheer massive amount of detail - more than in any game I've ever seen - you realize that a great deal of work went into this. I prefer a shorter game that is so strikingly beautiful and full of minute detail, over a longer more stylized game with simplified environments.
Finally, the puzzles are enjoyable but not very difficult. I would prefer a choice of difficulty levels that makes puzzles more difficult on the harder setting. The voice acting, including Mark Hammill as The Joker, is as good as it gets. The character animations are perfect.
My strong advice is to get this game.
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PlayStation 4
The locations were atmospheric and the overall design of the gameplay was good. I had issues with the tracking which made the game less enjoyable than it could have been. It also made me a bit nauseous. The visuals were also more blurry than other games which detracted from the experience.
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PlayStation 4
Good but just too short for me. There is not enough content in the game. Get the game on sale or at discounted price. it is awesome just way too short trip into batman's world.
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PlayStation 4
Utter rip-off. This is no more than a demo that should have been free with the PSVR headset. It lasts just under 1 hour and the gameplay is extremely primitive: you can only move by focusing on a distant icon, and then pressing a button. Whenever you're travelling to a location in the BatMobile or BatWing, there's not even a cut scene... the screen just fades to black and all you get is sound!!
Honestly, many of the PSVR demos last longer than this and are more fun (e.g. the Resident Evil 7 demo).
For the same price, DriveClub VR has given me much more entertainment (but maybe I'm fortunate that I don't get motion sickness?).
Save your money - this will probably be available free on PS+ before long.
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PlayStation 4
There must be a reason why there is no demo for this game and it is only available as a download and no Bluray. Because it is nothing more than a demo for 20 bucks.
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PlayStation 4
Summary Batman: Arkham VR is a new Batman story set in the Arkham universe and exclusive to PlayStation VR. For the first time in a Rocksteady Arkham story, Batman: Arkham VR offers players the chance to feel that unique sense of presence in these legendary locations through virtual reality. [Rocksteady]
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- PC
Initial Release Date: Oct 11, 2016
Developer:
- Rocksteady Studios
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
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