FROM MULTIPLAYER: I was not allowed to play the main storyline mode of “Batman Arkham Asylum” yesterday during a press demo of the new game in San Francisco yesterday.
I was only allowed to beat up thugs in two challenge rooms. That unexpected opportunity showed me shades of “Bioshock“’s re-release for the PS3. That game added to the campaign of the Xbox 360 release with a series of rooms that let players test strategies to determine the best way to complete them.
The “Arkham Asylum” game will contain rooms pulled from the game’s campaign that present timed and scored challenges. Excellent performance in these rooms will be ranked online. One room that I played involved beating up groups of prison thugs in a multi-round single-room brawl. Another put Batman in the rafters of a room that was half-warehouse and half-laboratory. The first room was designed for brawling tactics. The second was made for Batman’s stealth moves.
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