1. by Shane Augustin

2.  The game is based on the DC superhero Batman, it was released
worldwide on August 25, 2009.
 The game was published by Warner Bros. and Interactive Entertainment.
The game was developed by Rock Steady Studios, they have also
developed games like Grand Theft Auto, and Riot response.
 The game’s relate to the film as many of the characters are in both. Not
only are the main characters like Batman and Joker in both the games but
they also include other characters like police commissioner Gordon or
bane.
 The game’s main enemies are the ones from the films like Joker, Mr.
Freeze and bane but a lot of the enemy characters are from the comics
like Penguin, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Solomon Grundy, Scarecrow and Zaz.

3. The game was comercialised on PS3, XBOX
360, Microsoft Windows, OS X and Cloud (On
live). The games genres are action-adventure,
beat’em up and stealth.
Over 2.5 billion copies of the game were sold
worldwide. In the first five days following its
release approximately 593,000 copies were
sold in North America,
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenew
s.php?id=83509

4. The marketing campaign was designed to
leave many in suspense.
A short demo of the game was released to
only get the players used to the game’s
controls.
A trailer was also released showcasing some
of the new things the character can do.

5.  Official launch trailer for Batman Arkham asylum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILNP-X0IK88&
safe=active
 Official launch trailer for Batman Arkham city-https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
V1ZF5cNYCs
 Review of the game
http://uk.ign.com/games/batman-arkham-asylum/
xbox-360-14273491

6.  The game has done exceptionally well and won
many awards including best adventure, best
action and the Guinness world record for most
critically acclaimed superhero game ever.
 The game was nominated at the Academy Of
Interactive Arts and Sciences awards for
Adventure Game Of The Year, Outstanding
Achievement In Animation and many more.
 It also received a Game Of The Year addition a
year later which included some extra hours of
game play and another playable character.

7. As this game received so much good
press and ratings, a second was released.
Batman Arkham city was the second
game in the Arkham series and also done
exceptionally well.
A third game was released in the series,
Arkham origins, and a fourth is set to
release on June 2nd, 2015.

8. The cover of the
game is very dark.
This shows that
Batman is a very dark
and mysteries
character.
We simply see the
main character in the
game “Batman”
standing alone. This
shows the characters
personality as being
alone and not having
The moon is very anyone.
prominent and bright,
putting forward the
idea of nigh and
darkness.
The characters
symbol, a bat, is at
the top of the cover.
As bats are nocturnal
creatures, this
promotes batman's
style of coming out at
night time.
The cover brings the
idea to mind that
Batman watches over
the city.
The games disc is the
view of Gotham city
being covered by all
the games logo’s, the
title and other
important writing.
The writing on the side
of the case is only a
console label. PS3

9. The back of the
game’s has a small
bit of writing, not
giving away to much
of the game.
The games main
villain is in the top
left of the screen.
(Joker).
The sentence
“welcome to the mad
house” is written as if
it had been sprayed
out of the can the
main villain is
holding.
“Madhouse”, a crazy
and unsafe place to
be.
The back also has
some of the game’s
labels and main
logo’s, it also has the
age rating.
Some other bits of
the writing are also in
the green writing.

10. Most of my information was from a Wikipedia
page on the game -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Arkha
m_Asylum
Some came from IGN, a well known gaming
review site which offered up some useful
information.
The information on the awards -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282022/award
s