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Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 18 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Kemco
Developer: HotGen
Genre(s): Third-Person Action
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Summary
A series of seemingly unrelated events are taking place on the mean streets of Gotham City. Rival warlords and their gangs of thugs do battle in a series of ongoing turf wars. GCPD Commissioner James Gordon goes missing. And Arkham Asylum, the part-time home to Gotham's most dangerous criminals goes into lockdown - no one in, and no one out! It's up to you to guide the Dark Knight as he works hard to piece together clue after clue and get to the bottom of Gotham's problems. You'll have all of Batman's resources at your disposal, including a fully functional Utility Belt, help from allies such as Oracle, and a wide variety of stealthy moves and combat techniques. [Kemco]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
GamingTrend
There's just no way around it - Batman: Dark Tomorrow simply failed on the core aspect of gameplay design.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
Nothing more than a miserable failure that's so bad, it's funny. Just like your most favorite, cheese-laden late night horror flick, there are moments in this lackluster sissy of an action-adventure that you'll literally bust a gut laughing at.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
It's ultimately dragged down by erratic control, sloppy design, and wildly jarring changes in camera angle. [June 2003, p.82]
Adrenaline Vault
The vexing controls and camera system, combined with the poor enemy AI and simplified combat, make even a weekend rental of Dark Tomorrow tough to justify.
Read Full Review >TotalGames.net
All the stealth elements of this game fail completely due to the restrictive camera. Kemco describes the game as ‘Action Adventure’, (which puts us in mind of Buffy) but there is little of either to be had here.
Read Full Review >GamePro
Without a doubt, the worst Batman game ever. Yes, worse than the 16-bit "Batman: Return of the Joker," "Batman Forever" the arcade game, and even the Game.com Batman.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
A poor excuse for a Tenchu-style fighter, thinly veiled as a story-driven stealth action game a la Metal Gear that's so laughably bad it actually makes "Batman: Vengeance" look like the best superhero action game ever created.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
The actual experience of playing Batman: Dark Tomorrow is so awful that avoiding the game altogether is the best course of action.
Read Full Review >IGN
A crime against comic book licenses. Flawed from top to bottom, from beginning to end... This is a great example of "what not to do."
Read Full Review >Xbox Nation Magazine
Dark Tomorrow is, in a word, abigheapingpileoffeces. It's sloppy, scattered, and illustrates the word "janky" better than any dictionary definition ever could. [June-July 2003, p.91]
Cheat Code Central
If any game reviewer on this site even thinks about writing a positive review about this piece of shit, I will fire him on the spot. A positive review will be proof enough of his or her inability to do their job.
Play Magazine
I'm not joking when I say the people who purchase this game would be better off if the case was empty... The worst game I have ever played. [May 2003, p.62]
GameNow
A mind-numbing combination of awkward combat, mediocre visuals, and a camera that wouldn't be out of place in a Greco-Roman torture chamber, Dark Tomorrow fails on nearly every level imaginable. [June 2003, p.56]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 4.3 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Bill gave it a5:
i love the game sure the camera angles suck, but even with steath mode i have found ways arounds enemys without being seen and these arnt even in the book i also have gone through intier levels without being seen.
Batman gave it a 0:
Kemco, stop. You suck a batman games. Others games sweet. The bat has never been more disgraced. One of my favorite heroes, seems to be falling from grace. Stop Kemco. Please. Stop.
Clamspear gave it a 1:
Terrible. There is really not much to say other than absolutely eberything is wrong with this game. Sheer torture to play it. Badness example : You die Once...Game Over and back to the Intro/Start screen!! What the...???
Baron S. gave it a 1:
I'm afraid to say this game is a dreadful disappointment. I had been really looking forward to it, prior to its release. Even terrible reviews could not put me off buying a copy of Batman: Dark Tomorrow. I wish they had. Thankfully, I bought it from a shop with a good returns policy. I cannot emphasise enough how terrible this game is. If you want a third-person Batman game, Vengeance is probably the best so far. Steer clear of Dark Tomorrow at all costs.
IWhuppedBatman gave it a 10:
This is far and away best game batman time of all. it has punch kick macho speed. make batman into run walls rock hard. Exquisite gameplay make this game a solid pick for action aficianados.
Jeff M gave it a 10:
My points are not going towards the game but towards all of the comments about it. I have to say, people have been very open about putting down this game. But I support all of those comments because the game really does suck. Finally they should have never released a game like this it probably took a couple of minutes to put together and the makers were probably very hungry for money.
Fergus M. gave it a 0:
This game is better than any other game, yeah, okay, we know it could've been better, okay, but look at Batman Forever, yeah.. Wasn't very good, was it, yeah.
