Batman - Arkham Asylum - looking good on PC

Just tried the demo of this on PC and, while 3rd person action games aren't
my favourite, this looks like a rare bit of action quality on PC.
What normally puts me off straight away with multi-platform games is that
the controls are horrible on the PC. But the controls here were no problem
at all. If it was purely a fighting game I'd have given up straight away
but there appear to be other elements to the game - stealth, silent kills,
puzzles. And the character animation,voicing is top class.
Not out (in uk) until 18 September.
--
Rab

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:52:04 +0100, "Musicrab"
wrote:

>Just tried the demo of this on PC and, while 3rd person action games aren't
>my favourite, this looks like a rare bit of action quality on PC.
>What normally puts me off straight away with multi-platform games is that
>the controls are horrible on the PC. But the controls here were no problem
>at all. If it was purely a fighting game I'd have given up straight away
>but there appear to be other elements to the game - stealth, silent kills,
>puzzles. And the character animation,voicing is top class.
>Not out (in uk) until 18 September.

I too am put off by many of the action games that are multi-platform.
Even though mouse+keyboard works fine with most of them in the sense
that there is nothing restricting you from binding controls to a
keyboard key, in some games you get a sense that you're not playing
the game the way it's meant to be played.

The answer is to get a 360 controller for the PC.. in fact, after you
do, go back and load up some old multi-platform games that didn't
appeal to you the first time around and see if you like them better.
Before I got the 360 controller, I foolishly thought a gamepad was
pretty much a gamepad..I would plug in the trusty Logitech Dual
Action, which I always liked the overall feel of, but many games still
felt wrong and it was hard to put my finger on why.

I finally ended up getting a 360 controller to play GTA IV. The 360
was a must-have there, because of the index-finger throttle controls
which my existing game pad only had buttons for (always fully on or
off doesn't make for a very realistic car throttle and makes it harder
to control). I started seeing what I had been missing in other games.

Part of it may be that the games just feel "well-calibrated" for the
360 controller with no tweaking required.

Don't get me wrong, for first-person games the mouse and keyboard is
ar superior. There are some shooters that "work fine" with the 360
that I'm simply unwilling to give up the finer aiming control of the
mouse for. But for 3rd person action games and button mashers there
is definately something to be said for sitting back in the chair with
a wireless controller, especially when it's the exact controller the
game was designed for. Plus, if you've got a reasonably recent PC and
good video card, you've basically got a way better Xbox than the Xbox.